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AT THE 19thWith Harry YoungBritish Columbia this year will probably have a much stronger Willing don Cup team at Saskatoon than it did atSt. John. N.R, a year ago, when Bill Wake ham and Bert Ticehurst carried the load lor the province.The two top men In the B.C. team were lower than the top two of any other province, but Bob Gardner and Doug Reid were not a strong enough tail to atop Alberta from claiming the trophy, 363 to 390.Reid Is not an entrant at Kelowna for the B.C. Amateur this year, and as the four medal rounds of this competition will go moat of the way towards picking the Willing don Cup team, he must be out of the reckoning.Against that both Johnnie Johnston, a former Canadian a mo la or champion and a wonderful competitor, and. stylist Bob Kkid are back In the field. Neither was a candidate for the WllUngdon Cup team last year.If Johnston and Kidd have not lost their old form, it would not be surprising to find both of them back in the provincial team, along with Ticehurst. who-was medalist a year ago In the WllUngdon, and Wakeham.If that happened, the B.C. team would be the same ■s the one which was beaten Into fourth place at London, OnL, two years ago, when a powerful Ontario team led by Nick WeMock and Gary Cowan topped the field.Some other Wllilngdon possibles playing this week for their places are John Russell, Blake Cramb, Wayne Vollmer, Gary Smith and Doug Robb, but they will have to score well to oust the holdovers from previous teams,♦ A *The entry for the B.C. Amateur at Kelowna—Just over 60— is perhaps a little disappointing, but it is the first time this championship has bsen played away from the coast, and there Is not the large local population to swell the over-all entry.Particularly disappointing is the response from Vancouver Island. In addition to Wakeham and Smith, the Victoria entry consists of Dr. Scott-Moncrleff of Victoria and W. M. Patterson, of Uplands. Ron Hungle, a promising youngster from Nanaimo who played in the Canadian Junior at Colwood last August, Is the only other Island representative.Although It may not he that Victoria has—outside of Wakeham—any hot candidates for the WllUngdon Cup, It Is a pity because of the great variety of talent here that •o few should be taking part In the provincial event.There would have been another In the person of Ricky Kant, but the fine young Colwood junior has a date— school examinations—this week that forced him reluctantly to withdraw his entry.My own feeling Is that the B£. amateur entry has suffered locally, if not elsewhere, because the competition comes so close to the popular Ogopogo tournament on the Kelowna course.There are quite a few golfers from these pans who make the Ogopogo an annual, and they appear to have decided that two long trips to the peach country Is too muck for them.A * AGeorge Bigelow, chairman of the InterClub League committee, had a surprise for members at the prise presentation dinner at Gorge Vale last week.After the Uplands club had been handed the WilUe Park driver for the second year in succession, and Gorge for the fourth time had received runner-up awards, the Doc produced a new trophy which Is to go to the dub which finishes In the cellar.George described the trophy as “older than the Willie Park driver and aid that it was probably used as a golfing, or other weapon by the Sooke Indiana before the white man came to this country. He claims to have found It in a cave down Jordan River way.He hanffed It over to the captain of his own team, and with its brass Inscription It will hang in a much-frequented area ad the Victoria clubhouse.AAAJimmy Dalziel and Roy Johnson of Colwood best club-mates Larry McCooey and Harry Pike in a first defence of the aenftor buttons at Gorge Vale, the match ending on the 17th. Next challengers are Chris Archer and Jack Clarke of Gorge Vale ... a proposed golf clinic with pro Dick Munn and others taking part at the Gregarmh Golf Club at Prospect Lake has been postponed. New dates will be announced later.
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Victoria Daily Colonist
Victoria, British Columbia, CA
Tue, Jun 23, 1964
Page 24
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