SPIRITED CONTEST

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1938, Page 5

SPIRITED CONTEST

AUSTRALIAN WOMEN’S GOLF TITLE. MISS FLEMING DEFEATED IN QUARTER-FINAL. SYDNEY, August 23. Playing her best golf since she won the championship in 1934, Mrs Clive Robinson today eliminated Miss V. Fleming, New Zealand, from the Australian women’s golf championship. Results are:— Quarter-finals: Mrs Robinson beat Miss Fleming, two up. Miss Kernot beat Miss Lewis, 4 and 2. Miss Crago beat Miss Sydney-Jones, 2 and 1. Miss Ebert beat Mrs McKay, 4 and 3. Play in the match between Mrs Robinson and Miss Fleming was most exciting. Miss Fleming lost the second hole, but took the fourth and fifth in par figures. Mrs Robinson, with a birdie three, won the sixth, only to see Miss Fleming record par figures at the eighth and ninth and turn two up. Miss Fleming held this advantage at the eleventh, but Mrs Robinson, with another bird'ie three at the twelfth and a par four at the fourteenth, squared the match. Miss Fleming was in a bunker at the thirteenth, but got out well and sank a six-footer for a half. Mrs Robinson, after two beautiful woods, hit the flag with her chip shot at the fifteenth, which she won with a birdie four. The sixteenth and seventeenth were halved in par figures and Mrs Robinson downed a long putt on the last green for another birdie four. She came home in 36, two under par. Miss Fleming played very well throughout, but was beaten by superior golf. .