KITTO ONE UP

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1939, Page 6

KITTO ONE UP

IN GAME WITH HORNABROOK INTEREST REACHES CLIMAX. PROSPECT OF WIND TO TEST GOLF PLAYERS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. With the final of the New Zealand professional golf championship over 36 holes and two semi-final matches for the amateur title public interest in the golf tournament at Miramar, reached a climax today. The amateur title, the last event on the programme will bo decided tomorrow. Indications are fo* fine weather but there are prospects of a northerly wind to test players. The conditions are fairly calm, today with the sun hidden by a haze of clouds and a north-westerly breeze blowing. The play of the new open champion, Hornabrook, is being followed with interest after his sensational golf in the. eliminating rounds. The results of the amateur championship semifinal at the end of the first eighteen holes are:— R. Kitto one up.on Hornabrook; Silk one up on A. Kitto. Professional Championship. After a few uncertain shots in the first few holes Murray turned on the pressure against Galloway. whose driving went, astray under the strain and whose putting was much inferior to Murray’s. Murray did a round of 67, seven under the scratch score, and finished the morning round five up on Galloway.