Classic Event Decided Under Rigerous Conditions: Win for J. B. Ferrier The final of the Shanghai Golf Club Championship was played at Kiangwan on Sunday under the worst conditions which have ever attended it in the memory of any of those who witnessed the match. And as Mr. Brodie Clarke was present, it mav be said that never have such trying conditions been experienced since the inauguration of the competition, which dates back many years. For though the sun shone in all its glory, hard frost and a gale made the handling of clubs and the control of shots difficult in the extreme.
J. B. Ferrier won. by the tremendous margin of 15 up, and 13 to play.
Mr. Ferrier is heartily to be congratwated upon hoving the coveted title for the third year in succession. [lis remarkable performance on Sunday was a splendid example of how a really skilful player can adapt his game to suit prevailing conditions, even at their worst, for Sunday's weather, notwithstanding the sun shone the whole day from a cloudless sky, was such, on account of the high wind and low temperature, that from a golfing point of view it would be difficult to conceive worse, unless a blizzard were added" This, however, is not the fist time that the championship has been won _tliree years in succession,, Mr. H. R. Honeyman having accomplished the feat, starting with the season 1912/13, and it was in his first win that his victim in the final was no other than the now apparently invincible J. B. Ferrier, who had actually secured the premier honour twice prior to Mr. Honeyman's first win.
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