THE CHINA MAIL AUGU
AUSTRALIA'S SCULLING
REMARKABLE PUTTING BY FERRIER
Brilliant Burst Overwhelms Hattersley
N.S.W. AMATEUR
GOLF
CHAMPIONSHIP
one could have stood up to this phenomental burst Of the last six of these nine holes, Hatters- ley lost five, and from 2 up. was in the apparently hopeless posi- tion of 3 down, with nine holes to play.
Fer-
But at this stage this extraordin- Owing to the draw being seed-ary match took another turn. ed, the logical pair, Harry Hat-rier's brilliant putting deserted him. tersley and Jim Ferrier, the lea- just when, with victory in sight, der and runner-up respectively in would have been supposed that the qualifying round of the New nothing so surprising was
at all South Wales Amateur Cham-likely. pionship, met in match play in the final.
CHAMPION
EVANS PADDON BEATS ALF BURNS
FINE JUDGMENT AND
BLADEWORK
IN LINE FOR WORLD MATCH
(By "RHYTHM”)
Sydney.
VANS PADDON carried too many guns for Alf
Burns in the race for the Australian Profes sional Sculling Championship. He took the lead At the tenth hole he missed a putt immediately after the start, and maintained it Golfers showed their appre holed putts yards in length, only to throughout. Paddon showed form and judgment ciation of the arrangement by miss a sitter. The lapse was inex-that should make him a tough proposition for the turning up to the number of 3000, plicable.
world's best.
under two feet for a win. He had
the largest gallery ever seen at MATCH PLAY TEMPERAMENT
a golf match in Sydney. They i were richly rewarded, for the
Hattersley's match-playing tem-
It was a gala day at Woodburn, and, as a visitor for the first match was splendidly contested perament was then shown in high time to a Northern Rivers regatta, it was an eye-opener to see on and the result was in doubt right relief. He took toll of his oppon-arrival about 6,000 people lined along the river bank. up to the last green, where Hat-ent's mistakes. After sinking a long
I got a great "kick," and it was certainly pleasing to see that tersley three-putted, to go down putt for a half at the eleventh, and the oki sport of sculling is booming in the country, if not the city. by one hole. This was the anti-squaring the next hole with par Now I understand why the best exponents hail from places outside climax to a display full of thrills, figures, his approach shot at the Sydney. and the spectators relieved their thirteenth (494 yards) finished up pent-up feelings by cheering both within inches of the hole, which he players, an unusual happening, took with a birdie four. for golf galleries, in Australia at At the fifteenth, Ferrier's yard any rate, are not given to de-putt for a half stayed out, and at monstrations.
There were, of course, numerous past and present sculling identities, including ex-world's champions, George Towns, Charlie Towns, and Jim Paddon, Harry Pearce, former Australian champion and father of Bob (the present world's champion), Gus Green; build- the seventeenth he missed an even er of Paddon's boat, which is aptly named Hope, his brother Harry Ferrier's success was due to phe shorter one and the match was from the Tweed, a past amateur State champion and stroke of two nomenal putting at a critical stage all square with one hole to play. interstate eights, J. Searle, J. Casey, and many others. of the game, at a time when it had
A. “DOG-LEG”- It At the last hole both players made Woodburn is situated on to be done if he was to win.
the Neither tried to completely changed the aspect of a dog leg of it
banks of the Richmond river, the the game.
carry the flax, which is on the line
business centre being separated In the morning, Hattersley secur- of the hole: They played wide to only by the road, which winds ed a lead of 2 up with play which the right. Both were on the fair-around practically the whole be fairly earned him that advantage. way with their tee shots.
course, enabling the race He had an approximate 71 to Fer-had to play the odd. His iron found followed from cars, etc., as well rier's 73, par at Royal Sydney be the green, about twenty feet away as from the steamers. ing 72.
from the pin. A high shot, the ball rolled but a few feet.
Ferrier
resumed his inside position.
RACE WON! The course itself is about a.
The rate of both had now dropped DRAMATIC CHANGE
quarter of a mile wide; there are He was still 2 up when three had It was now up to Hattersley. The three or four rather severe bends, to about 24. Paddon had still about been played in the afternoon. Then flight of his ball was much lower, but for about the last three-quar-two lengths' lead, and was not at- At the came the dramatic change. Ferrier and, while he carried short of the ter mile it is straight, and the tempting to increase it. took the fourth hole, where Hatters-hole the run on the ball took it past finishing line is right in the cen- two miles the positions were un- changed, and it looked as if Paddon ley was bunkered.
the pin to the edge of the greentre of the town.”; Thrilling play by Ferrier follow-. It was now Hattersley's turn to Two steamers followed the race, had the race in hand:
strokes." ed. He took the fifth with a birdie play the odd. A weak approach left and the one containing the umpire three, an eight-yard putt finding the him about five short.
kept sufficiently in front to win by one length. The time was 20min. 18sec
He has long sweeping was packed.
and the boat was gliding nicely be-
tin. At the seventh (528 yards) || - HATTERSLEY'S: LAPSE
Paddon, the first to boat, was as-tween them. Burns was sculling he won with a birdie four, a four- Ferrier went boldly for his birdie sisted by his father. He received well, but could make no impression yard putt going down. At the eighth three The ball missed the hole by an ovation from the crowd as he on his heavier opponent.
As the men neared the finishing he was left with a six-yard putt for a fraction, and slipped nearly three sculled leisurely past. a birdie three and a win Down it feet past it
Burns followet shortly after, and line, Burns spurted gamely and got went again. To top all this, he sank Then, to the dismay of his army received, if anything, a greater reto within a length of his opponent, a twelve-yarder at the ninth, for of supporters, Hattersley putted ception. They both rowed up to but Paddon appeared to have his another birdie and a win
weakly. The ball merely trickled the start and were waiting when measure, and without undue bustling PAR FIGURES BUT LOST! along, and died two inches short of the steamers Hattersley had par figures at all the hole. That made the hole wide as
PADDON WON TOSS four holes, only to lose every one of a bucket for Ferrier, who sank the Both men lined up for the start. them
There was not much assistan Ferrier had done the nine putt, to win a match marked by re- Paddon, having won the toss was holes in 31, four under pair. No markable fluctuations.
on the southern bank
from the tide, it having just started The start was by mutual consent, to flood. consequently they were watching each other closely to see that no ad- Paddon is 23 years of age
He displayed vantage was gained. There were rows at 12st 12b. three false starts, Paddon going off excellent form, having a long, clean on each occasion. At the fourth at stroke, good bladework, and smooth- tempt both men got away together, ness throughout. He has apparent Burns striking, 38, and Paddon 40. Ty been well schooled in the
Paddon took the lead early, and atque of match racing, for he showed the quarter mile was slightly
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