GOLF IN ENGLAND

Hokitika Guardian, 13 July 1932, Page 4

GOLF IN ENGLAND

NEW ZEAL ANDERS AT PLAY. WIN FOR BRIGADIER-GENERAL. ■LONDON, May 27. ' Members of the New Zealand Society ./ held their spring golf meeting yesterday at the West Middlesex QoltfCllub links/ when 28 took part in the play, 7 The competition in the morning was an 18-hole bogey handicap. It was won by Brigadier-General Archibald Jack, who; with a handicap of 10, was 1 down. F. J. Abbott 1 was runner-up. Other hading scores were made' by T. B. Ohing, Graham Micliie, and M. M. Smith. In the afternoon four-ball foursomes were played. This competition was won by Waiter Young and F. T. Sandford with a score of 5 up on bogey. After the play ail the competitors arU.nPiied in tide clubhouse, ■pvbere Sir Thomas Wilford, who was one of the competitors, presented the cvrtomary silver . tankard to BrigadierGeneral Jack. Prizes .in the shape of boxes of golf clubs, Were, also presented to Mr Young and Mr Sandford. Before making the presentations, the High Comm’iS&ioner drew on his fund of golf stories, to the amusement of his audience. . . ,

Archibald Jack is a son of the late Air McL. W. Jack of Bealey Street and a well known native of the town. He was a member of the Hokitika Football Club’s first fiftelen in the early nineties and was engaged under the Public Works Department in the survey of the E ! ast Cbat ; railway line between Christchurch and Marlborough. Mr F. T. Sandford was formerly an officer in the Lands and Survey Office at Hokitika.