Golf. CADDIES' TURN

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 29, 28 October 1937, Page 13

Golf. CADDIES' TURN

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Boy Roturns an 86 at Special Tournament PROMISING FORM

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Some 24 boys ©mployed as caddies ou the Hastings Golf Links during the present season took part in a tournament on Saturday morning. The arrangements and control were in the capable hands of J. Lambie, the club professional. A number of golfers, both ladies and men, reversing the usual procedure, turned out and acted as caddies for the boys, providing a unique specx tacie. One round of eighteen holes was played, the senior boys playing off the men's tees and the junior division ofE the ladies tees. Prijses wero dom ate'd by several members and a luncheon, also provided by a number of members, was afterwards partaken of by the boys. Mr C. H. Slater, the club captain, presided at the lunchcon and prese'nted the trophies to the winners. Speaking to the lads he complimented them on their work throughout the season and the interest they had taken in the games of their employers. The tournament had been arranged so. that the golfers they caddied for 00 uld show their appreciation of their work and at the same time give the boys an insight of the game from the player's viewpoint whieh would increase their usefuluess in the future. Many of the best players in this country, and in faet throughout the world, had received their introduction to the game of golf hv acting as caddies and there was no season why the present assemblage | eould not provide a few more. Who J knew but what a future open ehampion » was not at the present moment among them. A vote of thanks, moved by Lambie, for the use of the links apd to those members who had donalea tropliies and "provided the luncfieon, was carricd bv enthnsiastie acelamation. Tho Prize List. Tho followiug 15 the prize list: fcieuior champiouship (cup and medal

presented by Mrs D. H. Newbigin),— R, Wall, 86. Senior handicap ,trophy presented by Mr J, B. Pletcher). — R. Wall, 74 nett, Junior championship (cup presented by Mr H. E. Simmons). — J. Pear, 102, Junior handicap (trophy presented by Mr- J. E. Jones). — D. Murley, 94 nett. Putting competition. — R. Wall 30 (A, Tong's trophy), B. Murphy 33 (Mrs H. Wall's trophy). A special trophy presented by Lambie for the best behaved and most useful caddy was allotted by a vote of the caddies to Master Gilbert Wall. Scores of Players. The scores of the leading competitors are as follow:— - Senior division. — R. Wall 86, Gr. Wall 88, K. Murphy 101, B. Murphy 103, K. Dyer 104, R. Emmerson 105, J. Horton 1Q5. Junior division. — J. Eear 102, D. Garnett 114, L. Rendall 115, D. Murley 118, N. Youke 121. Wall Brothers' Scores. The scores of the leading lads at some of the holes was quite equal to those of many men players, but they spoilt good rounds by their breakdowns at other holes. To' see these boys from tWelve to sixteen years of age, with practically. no experience of playing a fUll round of golf, hitting balls over two hundred yards in length afid scoring bogey figures was inspiring to a few interested oiilookers. R. Wall actually went round the eighteen holes in 84 strokes, figures that would earn him a handicap of 11 and grade him A division ainoa g the men. TJnfortmrately, he incurred a penalty of two for hitting his opponent's ball on the green with his own ball, making his total 86. Bunkers had no terrors for some of the lads, who, employing the full explosion shot, hopped out on to the green without trouble. Others, however, fbund trouble by getting out too strongly and across the greens into other bunkers. One lad at the sixteenth in this way visited three bunkers and had to record an eight. Yet another lad at the same hole outed from a bunker and sank his ball to score a two. R, Wall's card reads — Out: 55434568 4—44. In: 5 4 4 4 .5 6 4 5 5—42. Total: 86v It was at the eighth hole he incurred a penalty of two, his actual strokes for that hole being^ six. He recorded bogey figures at the first four holes and also at the elevo'nth, twelfth, severn teenth and cighteenth, and with the exception of the fifteenth, he was only one stroke above bogey. A truly crcditable performance. .' Gilbert Wall also did exceptionaily well to return a card of 88, 44 out and 44 iu. He recorded bagey figures at the tliirdj fourth, eightb, ninth, sevouteenth and eighteentli holes and a birdio two at the sixteenth. . With a little more experience both these lads, who are sons of Mr H. Wall, the groundsman at the Hastings links, will develop into first-rate players. Hastings Club Handicap Events. The whole of the knocii-out competitions were completed last week. The final games resulted as follow:—Club championship.— A. E. Murley beat W. A. Wilson. lntermediate championship. — y, Little beat J. Vesty. Junior championship. — J. Leggatt won by default. Consolation handicap.— J. L. Patersop beat W. H. Wood. Final; H. E, Elliott beat J. L. Paterson Gaptain's trophy.— W. H, Wood beat A, E. Tong at the 19th. Cashmore Challenge Cup foursome— Bemi-finals: A D. Murphy and J. Redward beat J. G, Esam and W, A- Wilson, W. N. Grieve and R. Vesty beat E, A. and S. Murley. Final; R. Vesty and W, N. Grieve beat A. D. Murphy and J. Redward. This oompetition was to decide the first holders of thc cup, whieh now becomes a challenge competition Any two players may now challenge the holders, apd if successful in defe#ting tem become . in turn tbe holders.

Advice has beon received in Hastings that during tho wcek-end Joe Franklyn, the former New Zealand liglitwoight cliampion, who appeared or several occasions in this distriet, was defeated by an Australian, Summers, on a technical knock-out in the seventh tound. tJoe lias been meeting with fair success of late and was hopeful of lining np as a contcnder for the lightweight crowu. Linotype operators in China are practically a)l Chinese, who in most casee can neither speak nor understand a hundred words of English outside the technical terms of their own craft. Upless the illustration gives them some hina, they do not know whether a given advertisement exploits a tooth-paste or a cure for Kong Kong fdot or Shangnai throat. The text means little more to them than the text of a Chinese advertisement means to the foreign auditor. They are thoroughly illiterate as far as the English language is concerned, They set up columns on the linotype every day, but they haven't any idea what the text means. In spite of the fact that they are working blindly in a language they do not understand, they aro remarkably efficient compositors . . . without the faintest idea of the meaning of the text, 'without the ability to carry a sentence or a phrase in his memory, without knowing when a word in the typewritten text conlains a ludicrons typographical error, he datters rapidly over the keyboard, and produce? proofs whieh, while remarkably elean will acciirately reproduce mis-spelled words and lypograpical errors in the lypBscrift, - ^