HOW THE JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP WAS WON.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 616, 20 September 1909, Page 4

HOW THE JUNIOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP WAS WON.

ivIVT 8ho »W like through the columns of Tra Domwos to appeal to the New Zealand , OolfiUmon to.prevent Sunday matohes from nbyod- at. the. Hawera golf links. No .decent football of bowling club allows' matches .upon the .Day, of. Best, and in the interest of .true-sport it is to be desired that tho control of golf clubs stall not fall into •wrong hands, and thus diive decent law-abiding, people from the clubs. In' Hawora last Sunday the junior golf championship was decided; and any one pan ,see how- obvirfusly unfair this is to' Chris--.tian goUws;. apart .from the scandal it causes ,in the district, It brings a splonilid game into disreputo, only allowingthejrroligious element in tWtown lo attach itself to a club.■: Some q KK d iL lke K^ 0 » New Zealand a Continental .babbatb such as may be seen; in decadent •I ranee, but thank God they are onlv a small minority. > Those who control our sports union*, ,bo it said.to their honour, have shown a , re-'' . epoct ,for ; : the religious ; convictions of the coui:,munitjv,:,and Ithue..prevented .little country : tpwtis't X rom;,bnnging, healthy;, , sporty into' ■'■ die. • ropute.—l'-am,..etc.j ;,-,: ...•■.-,:;.•, ■ ;„..,. ■>~,..■ ■ .-.-.. it':"':-";. ':.'FKfeD : w: ; Sots,i ■"' •:: '. ,■ '•■•■riiiti' Methodist Hawerav' ;-.', sawera, : September ,15.. ■', .-. , -.', ' ..'.'"• ■ : ., ; , '.'.