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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1920, Page 3

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DOMINION TOURNAMENT. BRILLIANT TRIAL ROUNDS. (By Wire.—Special Reporter!) Hamilton, Last Night. The New Zealand golf championship tournament opens at St. Andrew's links on Monday, and from present indications fine weather is , all that is required to mako the meeting c.ne • of the most successful ever held. The course is in splendid order, though a little rain . would make it less fiery. The visitors are \ delighted with it, especially the Australians, state the links arc equal to any they ! have played on in the Commonwealth. , Altogether there are 89 entries for the amateur championship, but the number had to be reduced to 72, as they were too t'Aimerous if the programme was to be carried . through in the allotted time. Included In vlio amateurs aro H. E. Crosse (Napie:). holder • of the title; A. D. S. Duncan, who : ;uia wan the championship eight times sl ice he first gained the honor in 1899; Sloan Morpeth, runner up 'n Viio >pi*u championship last year; if, B. Luak (Auckland); Rex George (Auckland provincial champion); Dr. Koßs (Dtmedin); and many other wellknown players. Additional Interest is lent io the tourna- , ment by the presence of .1. H. Kirkwood, ! tho Australian open champion, and A. M. | East, another Australian professional. In his first Tound of the links, Kirkwood did T2. This equals the record for. tho course put up in July by V. Bell, Junr., and is cne stroke better than the performances of H. B. Lusk and Morpeth on these links. It must, however, be Temembered that the champion-1 ship course is fully 1000 yards longer than the course ordinarily used. I I)r. K. Ross put up a good round yesterday.' Ho is playing a very long and straight foaH;j One of the best performances so far is of lies (of Chrlstchurch). He was 67 -at the 17th., but had bad luck at the 18th". He got a fine drive and took i.n iron for bis second, which ran past the pin into the bunker beyond. The hole eventually cost him six, which made his total 73. East, of New South Wales, to expected to perform well in tho open championsMp. He drives a longer ball thnn Kirkwood, and has many admirers. Sloan Morpeth beat Crosse this morning, 2 up. Kapi Tareha (Naplerj has had to return homo owing, to indisposition. Of the southerners, Dr. K. Ross is the most fancied for the amateur championship, while Morpeth is the popular selection among northerners, Douglas, the Miramar professional, and the open champion of New Zealand, did a 7?« to-day, and he and Moss (Auckland) are most likely t<s expend Kirkwood and East. WANGANUI FINAL. (By Wire. —Special to News.) Wanganui, Last Night. In the somi-flnnls of the championship, Harold Ceat Powdrell, and Meldrum beat Seymour. In the final, Harold beat Meldrum, one up. NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. A medal match will be played on the New Plymouth Club's links this afternoon for players nat engaged In the championship. On Tuesday aftemoou, the ladies will play p medal match, playeTs to choose their opponents STRATFORD LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP. ' The Stratford Golf Club's ladies' championship was won by Mrs. Glasgow, who beat Mrg. Burmester (last year's lady champion), after a vh\v keenly contested imatch, by the narrow margin of one stroke on the 19th hole. MANAWATU LADIES' CHAMPIONSHIP. 4fter a series of exciting contests, Miss Gannbrlll won tho ladies' championship Ojf Manawatu, beating Miss Stock, one up. In the semi-flnail, Mils Gamhrlll had beaten j Miss Hindmarsh, Napier, one up.