PULLS AND SLICES

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 269, 8 July 1932, Page 2

PULLS AND SLICES

'Chip-Shoi

GOLF NOTES QUALIFYING ROUND MEN'S CHAMPIONSHIP STARTS TO-MORROW. PROMISING PLAYER.

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A team of twenty players from the Rotorua Golf Club wilf visit Whakatane on July 17 in order to play a match versus the Bay Club. To-morrow will see the commencement of the qualifying round of tne Rotorua club championship, the draw for which appears in another coiumn of to-day's issue. Over fifty entries have been received and some keen play is expected. The Rotorua £lub has adopted a new system of looking after caddios, and now players who wish to secure the services of a caddie must do so throUgh the club professional, Mr. J. McCormick. This is the system which is generally in vogue throughout New Zealand, and should effect an improvement in the control of the boys, who are always inclined to get out of hand if a constant Watch is not kept on them. The greens on the Arikikapakapa course are playing very fast and true this week. This it attributable to the combination of drying winds following hard frosts, together with judicious use of the roll'er. Entries are coming in slowly for thie ladies' club championship, and players who wish to compete are leminded that the last date of entry is to-morrow, July 9. The ladies' club is due to send a team to play Tauranga some time in July, and about eight players will be required. This is one of the rnost pleasant events of the golfing season and there is sure to be keen competition for s'election. Golfing Visitors Recent visitors to the Rotorua club include Messrs. W. G. Morton, Martinborough; F. L. North, Glendowie: J. D. Aitken, Akarana; R. J. Collett, Titahi Bay; A. E. M. Rhind, secretary of Middlemore Club, Auckland; E. B. Brown, Middlemore; V. E. Masters, Middlemore; L. P. Watt, Miramar; A. C. Griffin, Hokowhitu-; H. Wilson. Kaikoura; E. Burrett, Titirangi; B. McLellan, Auckland. The four-ball bogey competition played last Saturday resulted in a tie between E. La Trobe Hill and E. Carr and L. Dingle and A. P. Kusabs, ' both teams finishing four up on bogey. The contest was resumed the next day and this time resulted in a win for La Trobe Hill and Carr, who finished three up on bogey as against their opponents' one down. A promising member of the younger generation of golfers is Keith Buddle, who went round in 72 in the medal round on Saturday week. Keith is a very consistent player, with a good easy action. More will be heard from hina in championship matches later on. It is unfortunate that the loss of the Australian Golf Club's building by fire necessitated the transfer of the New South Wales contestj for the amateur championships and thp KirkWindeyer Cup to the Royal Sydney course at Rose Bay, writes "Carnoustie" in the Bulletin. The arrangements made were unsatisfactory. The large gallery surged all over the place at its own sweet will, and packed the sides of the green to such an extent that competitors had more than once to wait for some minutes before they could play up. Surely to goodness the Royal Sydney is affluent enough to afford a length of rope wherewith to keep the crowd off the approaches to the greens. Ball-Stealing Crows With the golfing season in full swing, the usual tales of ball-stealing by crows are flowing into the Sydney Bulletin. During a competition at Mildura (Vic.), the crows were so thick and determined that a man was sent ahead of each pair of players

armed with a gun to keep the raiders off. At Killara, Sydney, the sooty nuisances were so bad during the annual tourney of the Old Sydneians that most of the players lost valuable pills during the round, one man having to replace as many as three — and with balls at 3s 6d each that is no light matter. One associates' foursome came bacic to the 19th eight pills down between them. Crows in other countries seem to have no tasbe for golf balls. In South Africa and India, where the black rufflan is always ready to thieve anything else, golfers make no comp'laint of him. In Britain one heairs of an occasional theft by a seagull from seaside courses. Anyway, what does the crow do wilh the balls? He is a wise fowl an'd is not likely to harbour the delusion that the things are edible after oiie experiment.