GOLFING

Hokitika Guardian, 11 March 1930, Page 4

GOLFING

KIRKWOOD’S TOUR.

DICTATE PRICES.

(Australian Press Association) SYDNEY, March 10. The.Killara Golf Club officials received a bombshell in the form of an .ultimatum from Kirkwood that he “will not play to a cheap gallery.’.’ He says: The price of admission was originally ten shillings and it was reduced to five tv'thout consultation. Kirkwood and Hagen were billed to play an exhibition match on Wednesday, but the former’s truculent attitude is likely to upset the programme. He demands the -guarantee of a fixed sum, and complains that if people cannot afford ten shillings to see the world’s best play after they have dropped thousands of dollars to come here then those people should not ex«. pect such a treat. The fact that the Kiilara Golf Club' is one of the elite of the city makes the ex-Australian’s outburst more’ amusing in the public eyes. The dab’s object in lowering the price was to give the greatest number of enthusiasts the chance of seeing the champions in. action.

A COMPROMISE.

SYDNEY, March 10. As the result of Kirkwood’s attitude, the Killara Golf Club had intended to declare off the exhibition' match between him and Hagen. Kirkwood however, had a, consultation with, i the Club officials, and a compromise was reached by agreeing to hold the match on Wednesday for charity, flie Committee issued a statement that they would now allow Kirkwood or anybody else to put a pistol at their heads.

It has now been decided tliat a foursome be played, the admission charge* to be five shillings, and the whole of: the proceeds to be to the Northshore Hospital.

HAGEN’S WHACK. SYDNEY, March 10. 1 In an interview Kirkwood explained that all of the matches here were arranged on the other side of the world. “I understood that they were all to be on the basis of a; minimum guarantee* of £2OO per match and that where a gate was charged, it ws. to be tea shillings. I do not ca're what they; charge at Killara, as long as I get my guarantee, I cannot break faith with the Melbourne people, who gauranteed me £I,COO for five matches, fiftd that when I play elsewhere the gate charge to he ten shillings.” It is understood Kirkwood hfta agreed to pay Hagen £3,500 for the tour.