AUCKLAND’S LOSS

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 807, 30 October 1929, Page 7

AUCKLAND’S LOSS

SLOAN MORPETH TO GO TO MELBOURNE A BRILLIANT GOLFER Auckland and New Zealand is to lose a brilliant golfer in Sloan Morpeth, who has decided to accept the position of secretary of the Commonwealth Golf Club, Australia. -V Press Association cablegram from Melbourne stated yesterday that Mi*. S!oan Morpeth, New Zealand amateur golf champion, had been offered the post of secretary of the Commonwealth Golf Club. Subject to his acceptance of certain conditions he would take up his duties at an earlv date. Interviewed by The Sun this morn-

ing. Mr. Morpeth stated that he bad received an official c u m m u n ie a t ion from Melbourne, and that he had decided to accept the offer. He expected to be leaving for Australia in about six weeks. “It is with great regret that T will have to resign my position as secretary of the Maunga-

kiekie Golf Club,” Air. Morpeth said. Ho has held that position lor about two and a-half years. N.Z. AMATEUR CHAMPION The offer made to Air. ATorpeth is, no doubt, the outcome of his recent visit to the Commonwealth as a member of the New Zealand team which played for the Nirk-Windeyer Cup. By winning the Victorian Amateur Championship in a brilliant manner Sloan Morpeth was heralded in Australia as one of the finest golfers the Dominion has ever sent across the Morpeth commenced his career at AY’ailii away back in 1910. Three years later /he played his first big golf, and won the Auckland provincial championship by defeating J. sharland in the final. He served at the war, and on returning was defeated in a play-off in 1920 by E. S. Douglas, for the Xew Zealand open championship. In 1927 he won the .amateur championship of Xew Zealand at Palmerston Xorth. JTe won the Dominion open championship at Dunedin in 1928, and this year won the Auckland provincial championship and the Dominion amateur title.