CHAMPIONSHIP COL.
LONDON, June 7. In the final of the amateur golf championship, John Rail beat '■ Abe Mitchell at the thirty-eighth hole. Amongst :the crowd who witnessed the golf final artisans, .who cheered Abe MitchelT, who is a chaff«ur.
The papers comment adversely on tbhe introduction- of the partisan element.
The Times says the crowd was venomous anld unsportsmanlike.
The Daily News states that'tlhe aristocratic spectators were unconcealed in their resentment against a vvolrkI'man pfctying in the final. ; ''■'
Both pliayers w ( ere most sportsmanlike /and friendly during the progress of the .match.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10655, 10 June 1912, Page 5
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92CHAMPIONSHIP COL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10655, 10 June 1912, Page 5
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