GOLF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2539, 28 June 1909, Page 3

GOLF.

NAPIER v. POVERTY BAY. The visit of the team from the Napier Golf Club on Saturday created a great deal of interest, and there was an exceptionally largo, crowd out on the links in the afternoon, when the match was played. The Napier team, which arrived by the boat on Saturday, morning, was not a .strong one, (several of their best players being unable to make the trip. In the morning the visitors joined with the members of the local team in playing foursomes, in order to allow the visitors to test the links for the more important matched in the after- ' The visitors wore, entertained at luncheon by the Poverty Bay Golf Club in the paviHoh, Mr. Clare doing the catering in his usual satisfactory style. \lr., 3. H. Bull, captain of the Poverty .Bay Club, in a happy .speech, welcomed the Napier team to Gisborne, and expressed the. hope that home-and-home matches between the club’s would be played each! seaison ,!n ine future. Mr. N. Kettle, captain of the visiting team, in replying, paid a high compliment to the excellence of the local links and the good order in which they,were kept. He hoped his club would have the opportunity at an early date of returning the hospitality they were .receiving from the Poverty Bay Club. In the afternoon, the matches commenced at 1 o’clock. The teams consisted of 11 a-side, and were constituted as follows: f Napier.—N. Kettle (captain), H. E. Troutbeok, F. B. Logan, J. Snod grans, J. Beatson, T. Rome, W. Cl. Barren, T. B. Ching, G. Kelly, PI H. Kel’v, and 0. Steele. Poverty Bay.—J. 11. Bull (captain), G. M. Dodgshun, P. Keiha, F. ,11. W. Traill, G. Willock, J. W.. Cliirnside, N. Bull, J. Howie, W. R. Barker, C. A. Fenwick, and R. Willock. The Ideal men proved altogether too strong for the visitors, and the match resulted in an easy victory .for Poverty Bay by 10 games to one. N. Kettle, the captain of the visiting, team, had the distinction of being the only man to register a victory for his side/and he defeated a very strong opponent in G. M. Dodgshun by 2 up and 1 to play. Kettle, was .1 up at the 16th, and Dodgshun had a fine .chance of making an interesting finish of- it. He outdrove his opponent by 40 .yards, and had a still further advantage when Kettle played a faulty second. However, two poor short approach shots, and weak putting lost him the hole, and the Napier captain was warmly congratulated on downing such a strong opponent. The following are the results: P. Keiha (Poverty Bay) beat H. E. Troutbeck (Napier),' 6 up and 4 to play. .. N. Kettle (Napier) Ik?at G. M. Dodgshim (Poverty. Bay), 2 up and ! to 1 F. If. W. Traill (Poverty; Bay) beat F. B. Logan (Napier), 2 tip. Geoff. Willock (Poverty Bay) beat J. Snodgrass (Napier), G up and 4 to play. J. W. Cliirnside (Poverty Bay) bent T. Borne (Napier), 5 up and 3 to play. C. A. Fenwick. (Poverty Bay) boat O. Steele (Napier), 3 fip aiid 2 to play. W. R. Barker (Poverty Bay) boat W. G. Barron (Napiej), J up and 2 to plav. te ' / -te ■ J. Howie (Poverty Bay) \ bo dCelly .(Napier), 6 dp- and 5 te N. Bull. (Poverpv Bay) 'be Kelly (Napier), •Hup and 3 t R. AVilloek (Poverty Bay B. Ching (Napier), 2 up. te J.. H. Bull ■ 0l v ' ' 13/ ''-Boatsffn (Naples' The major it .Napier byte ’several of 'lGishoTiy" was a’ wharf we’J ■tin’-'

Keiha was 2 up at the 4tli. Going-to the fifth, Troutbeck outdrovo the local man by 30 yatys, but Keiha laid his second with* a lovely shot a couple 'of feet from tlie hole. Troiitbeek failed with liis short shots, and Keiha holed out in 3. Both got long balls from their tee shots going to the 6th, and followed tlipm ui> with fine seconds with their brassies. Troutbeck made a weak third, and lay a couple of yards short of the green, which Keiha found with liis third. By running down a 10-foot putt the Napier man obtained a half* in 5. Going’to the 7th, both lav in the bod of the hollow just short of •the' fence. Troutbeck played a ruri-ning-up aunroach, which just reached the edge of the green, while Keiha was a trifle strong and overran the green by a coupV of yards. The local man played a skilful downhill putt with a lot of sid-e on the ball, and the lio’e was halved in four. At the Bth (125yds), both men failed badly with their tee shots, and lay in the tee side of the bunker. Good seconds took both on the far side of the green, but faulty •putting by both paw the hole halved in s’s. Keiha sliced away to the right going to the 9th, but the Napier man made no mistake and found the green with a splendid drive. Keiha- had a bad lie, and only got 20 yards with his iron. , He took three to reach the green, and holed out in 5. Troutbeck created something of a sensation by running down a 12-foet putt in brilliant fashion, thus doing a magnificent 2, which established a record for the. hole -which will , take a lot of beating. Keiha was thus 2 up at the turn for home. ' Troutbeck foozled his drive going to the 10th, and lay just on the tee. side of the creek. From a bad lie, he got well over with his mid-iron, his second shot lying level with Fare’s first, which was a good long ball. Faulty short shots lest Troutbeck any chance of recovery, and Keiha, with nicely judged shots, took the hole in 4—6. With a good strong wind against him, Keiha did not attempt to carry tlie creek going to the 11th, and contented himself with laying up near the btidge. Troutbeck failed 'to rise his ball with his tee shot, and only get about 50 yards. Taking his brassey for the carry, he had tlie bad luck to find the creek. Picking out and losing one. tlie Napier man again found the creek, but the ball struck the bridge and bounced over. Keiha played a long sehond, and lay liis third, from 40 yards dead on the green. He holed cut in 5, which left him 4 up. At the 12th (DO yards), Jveiha played a weakshot, and failed te get up the terrace. Troutbeck. played an even worse .stroke, and only got about 40 yards, Ins hall lying in a deep , lioei mark in the. suit turf? It. was an impossible lie, and the Napier man (lid the only thing possmte in. abandoning the hole, which left Keiha five up. Neither man played np to form at.the long hole (535 yar'U). which was halved in Bs. Both pot long drives off the tee going io the 14th, and followed them up with gone! seconds. There was nothing beta ecu them alter their third shots, but Korea by more accurate work on the gicen won the hole by *> —6. and thus too.c the match by 0 up and 4 to play.