The first day's play in the Women's Inter-provincial Championship at Killarney was called off yesterday because of heavy flooding on several of the greens on the Mahony's Point course. The opening foursomes between Connacht and Leinster were called in when it became clear that play could not continue.
ILGU officials decided to cancel yesterday's foursomes draw, and two rounds of 14 singles will be played today. There will be two final rounds of singles tomorrow.
Today - Morning singles: 8.15: Con- nacht v Leinster: D Walsh v S O'Brien, S Corcoran v E Dowdall, L O'Brien v Y Cassidy, A Farrell v J Gannon, D McGowan v S Keane, R MacGuigan v D Smith, E Gallagher v O Purfield. 9.12: Ulster v Munster: A Coffey v ER Power, B Lunney v C Coughlan, H Jones v V Hassett, G Hegarty v T Mangan, E Dickson v M Sheehy, N Moore v M Abernathy, S Verschuur v A Burke. Second round starting 1.30.
Men's Interprovincials: The recent winner of the South of Ireland championship, Mark Campbell, is included in the Leinster team which will defend the championship title at Enniscrone golf club on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next. Adrian Morrow of Portmarnock, back from illness, will also be hoping to put himself in the frame of the Irish selectors.
Munster Mullingar Scratch Cup winner Tim Rice of Limerick, while Ulster will include Irish Amateur Close champion Ciaran McMonagle (Dunfanaghy) and Paddy Gribben of Warrenpoint.
Leinster: E Brady (Royal Dublin), S Browne (Hermitage), M Campbell (Stackstown), G Cullen (Beaverstown), N Fox (Portmarnock), J Kehoe (UCD), G Lunny (Naas), G McNeill (Waterford), A Mor- row (Portmarnock), D Snow (Portmarnock). Non-playing captain: T Hayes (Hermitage).
Ulster: J Foster (Ballyclare), P Gribben (Warrenpoint), M Hoey (Shandon Park), D Jones (City of Derry), A McCormick (Scrabo), G McDowell (Rathmore), G McGimpsey (Bangor), C McMonagle (Dunfanaghy), S Paul (Tandragee), M Sinclair (Knock). Non-playing captain: D Young (Royal Portrush).
Munster: K Bornemann (Douglas), P Col- lier (Limerick), J Kavanagh (Castletroy), S Moloney (Castletroy), M Murphy (Waterville), M O'Kelly (Limerick), E Power (Kilkenny), T Rice (Limerick), D Sugrue (Killarney), A Thomas (Tramore). Non-playing captain: J Smyth (Lahinch).
Connacht: D Cunningham (Galway), D Dunne (Co Sligo), S Heavey (Co Sligo), N Howley (Ballinasloe), K Kearney (Galway), P Killeen (Claremorris), A Lynch (Northants Co), D Mortimer (Connemara), C Moriarty (Athlone), C Waters (Loughrea). Nonplaying captain: H McKinney (European).
British Girls' Championship: Martina Gillen kept the Irish flag flying at High Post, Wiltshire, yesterday by giving a stylish performance to move into the match-play stages. The 17-year-old Munster Girls' champion from Beaverstown posted a four-over-par 77 to add to her 74 of the previous day for a 151 total which got her through with a stroke to spare.
The display by Gillen was the only bright spot on a rather depressing day for the Irish, whose champion, Pamela Murphy of The Island, crashed out with a 161 aggregate.
Irish scores: 151 - M Gillen (Beaverstown) 74 77; 158 - F Healy (Headfort) 78 80; 159 - M Carroll (Ballinascorney) 80 79; 160 - U Marsden (Tullamore) 81 79; 161 - P Murphy (The Island) 80 81; 166 - S Smyth (Massereene) 86 80; 167 - M Holmes (Enniscrone) 86 81; 171 - S Galvin (Limerick) 87 84; 172 - D Judge (Roscommon) 90 82.
Boys' Home Internationals: Ireland, champions of Europe only last year, found Scotland tough nuts to crack at Conwy, north Wales, yesterday. They virtually surrendered any chance they had of a surprise victory by losing four of the five foursomes.
They proceeded to go down in the singles by six matches to three with one halved for an overall 10 1/2-4 1/2 defeat.
In the other match, England, the defending champions, overcame Wales 9 1/2-5 1/2. Today Wales v Ireland and England v Scotland.
