Seldom has golf been so interesting in Shanghai as it was on Tuesday when the Shanghai Golf Club played off the China New Year Cup, which to all intents and purposes carries with it the Race Course Championship. There were many entries for the event, and in view of the state of the course it was believed that any of the longer handicap men who had entered might carry it off. The weather was bitterly cold, becoming more so in the afternoon, while the links were in) a thawing condition, slippery underfoot and containing many bad lies. The greens were worst of all, for they became so soft that heel-marks soon showed on many of them, rendering putting difficult. The view that the longer handicap players stood an excellent chance was not borne out by the day's play, for by 4 p.m. it was announced that J. B, Ferrier and the Rev. W. P. Roberts had tied for the 36 holes. It was then decided to play off another nine holes between the two, and once more a tie resulted. Then the competitors agreed that the first hole won should decide the match, and Roberts there and then won.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.