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Taranaki Daily News, 18 September 1920, Page 3

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DOMINION TOURNAMENT. AUSTRALIA BEATS NEW ZEALAND. AMATEUR SEMI-FINALS. (By Wire.—Special Reporter) Hamilton, Last Night. The weather conditions were agnhi good for the continuation of tho New Zealand golf championships. A stiff south-easterly wind blew across tho course and made-play tricky. Some 71)0 spectators witnessed the professional lest match, Australia (Kirkwood and East) v. New Zealand (Douglas. and lies), and were rewarded vVith some brilliant play.. The former won, two up and one. lies halved the opening hole in three. Douglas, hitting some ' big drives, held his side, and the following two'holes were halved in fours, and tho Australians won the fifth and sixth in 4 and 3. Kirkwood playing a brilliant cut shot at the latter hole. The remaining four holes going, out were halved in moderate play. The New Zealanders drove past their opponents, but they were not so accural?- with their seconds. Douglas drew applause by holing a fine putt to secure a half at tho tenth in three. The Australians were then 2 up. A beautiful chip by Douglas won the twelfth for the New Zealanders, Kirkwood slicing out of bounds at this hole. lies, playing Ills tfeelr, broke the shaft going to the next, Bouglas played a. lovely second and just i.ussfd holing a putt for three. East won the hole. Douglas, whe bad olayed - the last six holes In under four?-, now fell away. I'es. with an iron, played a full shot out of a deep bunker and holed a long putt for 3, and .he Australians were one up again, lies had the best of tho sixteenth, but failed to hole, a short putt to square the match. He repated this at the seventeenth, and Kirkwood holing a two yards putt, the Australians won, 2 up and 1 to play. The Australians were frequently outdriven, sometimes as much as fifty yards. They won the match by the straightnes3 of their second shots. In the amateur championship, Hickson, playing Dr. Itoss, missed a short, putt to halve, at the first In three. Out driving Ross he halved the second in four, lost ths third by a bad tee allot, and a weak lons putt. He snatched a half at the fourth after two indifferent wooden shots by holing a long putt, Ross nvlssiiiß his putt—an easy one. Hickson had ijie better of the fifth up to tho green, and then laid Ross a stymie. Ross attempted to extricate his ball, but hit the back of the hole and jumped out. The hole was halvod, and Ross was one up. Both players were twice bunkered round the green at the next, which Ross won. in a poor five. Hickson's long game was not good, and he was putting weakly. He became three down. He, however, won the ninth, and turned for home two down. Dr. Ross then holed two, splendid, three, and was four up. Hickson got a four at the twelfth, and Ross, putting weakly, lost the hole. The short fourteenth was peculiarly played. Both sent two tee shots out of bounds. Hickson, playing his third, pulled out again. Ross was playing his third when it rolled off the tee. Unthinkingly, he teed the ball again, and lost tho hole. Ross laid a stymie at the sixteenth, which the Aueklander failed to hole, losing the hole and the. match. Lusk, playing Morpeth, was two down at the fourth. At the ninth, Lusk sliced his drive, then again sliced his second, and was still down on the banks of the Waikato. A lovely approach up hill, however, found the green. Morpeth had played two very weak shots and missed his putt, and Lusk holing out squared. Both lipped the tenth for two, and were on the green in three at the eleventh, and Morpeth missed a four-foot putt. Lusk bad a shorter putt and also missed. Morpeth was in trouble all along the twelfth, and« required four to reach the green. Lusk was lying dead in three, and won the hole, making him one up. Morpeth won the fourteenth, and the fifteenth was halved. At tho sixteenth, Lusk wa3 in a deep pit near the green, but made a wonderful recovery and snatched a half. They were all square at the eighteenth, and the Aueklander missed a- chance at the 20th through failing to hole a five-foot putt.

DETAILED RESULTS. The Press Association message contains the following details:— PROFESSIONAL MATCH. ICirkwood and East (Australia) beat Douglas and Isles (New Zealand), 2 up and 1. AMATEUR SEMI-FINALS. Dr, Ross (Dunedin) beat E. Hlckson (One Tree Hill, Auckland), II up and 2. Sloan Morpeth (Hamilton) heat H. B. Lusk (Auckland), 1 up at the 20th. ■ FOURSOME RESULTS. A* foursome competition played to-day resulted:— F. C. Fryer and 11. E. Trout-beck, all square. O. B. Wright and .1. Goss, I down. R. O. Chesncy and 11. Kirk, 1 down. A. E. and D O. Whyte, I down. V. Price and Ilusscll. 1 down. IV. B. Colbert; and It D. Rainger, 2 down. D. Pryde (ex-champion) and P. P. Webb (combined ages 120 years), 2 down. ___ . • PROMISING GIRL PLAYER." By Telegraph.—Press Assn,—Copyright. London,. Sept. 16. Barbara Griffiths, aged 14 years, and' the youngest of the family, was beaten In the semi-finals for the girls' golf championship at Stoke Poges. She showed wonderful form in the earlier rounds, heating much older players.—Ai j.-X.z. Cable Assn. AMATEUR STATUS. ST. ANDREW'S DEFINITION. London, September 6. The St. Andrew's Golf Club, following a conference with overseas golfers, has defined an amateur as one who for 10 years has not carried clubs, received a consideration for playing in a miatch or tournament, nor played fr/ a money prize, the committee reserving tiie right to veto anyone acting in a way detrimental to the game. Reinstatement is permitted only once, and that after three years of amateurism, and not more than Ave years of professionalism. Clubs arc authorised to elect professionals to., membership.