GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, 7 August 1920, Page 3

GOLF.

NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. A four-bitl) bogey match will be played on the New Plymouth Club's links this afternoon. The draw is: Mnekny and Bloxani play Bewley and Burgess; Butcher and McAlluin play Smith and Osborne; ,T. Paton and Johnson play Steeds and Etherington; Elliott and Grant play Robcrtshaw and Quickfall; J. S. Taton and Bailey play McQuade and Christoffel. GOLF IN AUSTRALIA. NEW ZEALAND LADY'S SUCCESS. By cable from Australia comes the gratifying news that Mrs. Guy Williams, of Masterton, has annexed the Australian Ladle®' Golf Championship, and this performance justifies us In considering her the leading lady golfer, though she is not the present holder of .he New Zealand Ladles' Championship. Mrs. Williams' career as a golfer lms been remarkable. As Miss Eileen Kope Lewis, she, rn just leaving school, won the New Zealand championship llrst in 1004. The following year she was runner-up at Napier to Miss Stephenson, a sterling and seasoned player, who had recently come from England. Miss Lewis then visited Australia, and at Melbourne was runner-up in the Australian Ladies' Championship.' In 1907, having become Mrs. Guy Williams, she won'the New Zealand Championship in Auckland, beating her cousin. Miss Ethna Pierce. In 1913 and 1914 she won the title again at Napier and Dunedin. ' During the war th» meetings were suspended, and on their resumption in 191.9, Mrs. >VilliAiins again entered, but. was defeated In the third round by Miss Wright, a young player from Timaru, who went on to win her first championship brilliantly. Curiously enough, in the previous contest at Dunedin, 1914. Mrs. Williams accounted for Miss Wright in tho third round. The New Zealand Championship is under match play, and the Australian under medal, so Mrs. Williams has proved her metal in both varieties of the game That her medal play is very sound she had previously shown by winning three times In succession the Mellsop ('tin, which necessitates three rounds of medal piny, and"lb practically a medal championship trophy.