GOLF.

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1127, 15 June 1927, Page 6

GOLF.

RUSSELL BEATS HORTON PLAYED A CHEAT CAME. SMITH OPE ALL'S SENSATION. (Aust. anti N.Z. Cable). Sydney, June IE Tlu- second round ol the Amateui Gold Championship was played Ex showery weather. Russell and Horton had a tremendous struggle, iiorton started brilliantly with two at the first. He lost the second. The third was halved. Horton won the fourth and Passed the fifth. The sixth was halved hut Hassell won a long seventh. Alter the eighth had been halved Horton squared the match at the ninth. Horton took three puts at the tenth, but a brilliant three at the eleventh squared the game again. The twelfth was halved and Horton took the lead winning the thirteenth. But a great three by Russell at the filteenth evened things again. Horton sank a thirty-foot putt for halt at the sixteenth, but missed the putt at the eighteenth, and finished one down. Russell’s round was 71 and Horton’s 72.

Xu the afternoon Russell won the second and Horton the third. The Victorian won the fourth and fifth. The sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth were halved, though a stymie cost Morton a win at the eighth. Horton (lore commenced to putt badly and lost the tentii and eleventh, and onlv halved the twelfth. He was then four down and six to play. He then won the thirteenth and fourteenth. Put Rusted negotiated the stymie at tins fifteenth for half. Horton won the sixteenth, hut pulled nis tee sho at the seventeenth. His ball moved as be was addressing it and ho diifled his third and Russell won the hole and match two up and one to Phiy.

LI or f.ou played a great game and was unlucky to strike a player like Russell at the top of his gain* 1 . •Smith, a youth, from a nine-hole course at Long Reef made the sensation of the tournament. He defeated Murdoch in the first round and in the .sec oil d overwhelmed Sturrock, tSic oonqcror of Morrison. Results in detail: Wbillon defeaied Harrison f! up and o to play. Apperlcy defeated Nigcl-Smii L II up and 10 to 1 play. Russell do foil fed Horton 12 up find I lo play.* "Walter Smith defeated Si urn.«(•••; 7 up and u to play