MINERS AT GOLF.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1424, 26 April 1912, Page 5

MINERS AT GOLF.

PLEASANT HOLIDAYS ON THE • ; LINKS. . Tho golf-loving miners of Bulwell ars thoroughly enjoying their holiday (writes tho correspondent of the "Daily Mail from Nottingham on March 0. 'i hoy lire practising diligently on the Bulwell lorest links and getting ready for the strenuous match season, which starts m -April. Fifty-eight of the' miners belong to the ISulwell Forest :Artisans' Club;,Xhich is certainly one of the strongest artisan clubs in England, and all must be pure amateurs. For the coming season, twentysix matches have already been arranged, and on-some Saturdays the club puts two teams into the field, for' the' most part consisting of minors,'who arc"only ablo to play on.Saturdays, though on the long summer days they may bo able to play a dozen holes 1 or so'after leaving the pit. In view of this -strenuous programme the golfing miners are rejoicing in this timely holiday and .are out morning"atid afternoon 'steadily reducing their handicaps and' paving little or "no. heed-to,tJic.de-vastation and misery which attend .She Hlack Strike. To-day-a glorious day— they were out in-full force on the sporting' Bulwell .Forest.-links, and, 1 HJul in loose golfing jackets and check trousers, and wearing neat'golfing caps, it was almost impossible to distinguish tltcin v tnmi the members of what my caddie-called the "gents." (t'.ub. Indeed, the only distinguishing feature seemed to be that tho majority of the miners played better golf and more- strictly according to (lie rules than the "gents." did. In most ea'sW (llcy were accompanied liy brothers, s.onsr or friends, wearing the dark Sunday -suit of the, miner with a 'bright handkerchief round the neck. These netrd.us (•addles. One match in particular attracted '.quite a gallery and was a source of interest not onlv to the artisans.but also tp'Jho "gents." It was a four-tall ' foursoino, and consisted of a two handicap man, two seven men, and an eight man."'During the past two days (hoy had already -played tiirco rounds, each ending all square, but after a. ding-dong'.struggle to the eleventh hole in the fourth round the two-man was making his presence felt and gradually forging ahead, ilo-liad ft beautiful swing and played.-a wonderfully straight game. Though at"work'in tho pit, ho only failed to win the championship of tho county last season . by .-one" stroke. The interest taken by the gallery, mostly consisting of miners, was intense, and each stroke was freely criticised. The etiquette of the game, however, was as strictly observed as though it had been tho final of some chainnionship'hifltch-'bo-tween Vardon and Braid at St, Andrews.