GOLF TEST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 897, 14 February 1930, Page 7

GOLF TEST

N.Z.’s Kirk-Windeyer Cup Team

From Our Own Correspondent WELLINGTON, Thursday

The selection of the team to represent New Zealand in the Kirk-Win - deyer Cup against Australia, which is to be played at Shirley links, Christchurch, on April 16 and 17, has given general satisfaction, though there are, of course, a few disgruntled ones. The choice of J. L. Black (Hamilton), A. D. S. Duncan (Wellington), Dr. K. Boss (Otago), E. M. Macfarlane (Christchurch), and T. H. Horton (Masterton) may be said to have fairly picked out the five leading players in the Dominion at the present time, and the greatest difficulty at the moment is who will have to be left out when the final selection is made the day before the match opens. At this stage it is impossible to say who it will be. The departure of Sloan Morpeth left a vacancy this year which had to be filled, and the Australians probably consider that they are lucky to have captured him and so lessened New Zealand’s chances of winning the cup to that extent. There are, of course, several players who may be said to at least have the right of consideration

when making- a selection, and of these Leo Quin and A. G. Sime must have stood a very good chance of being named. Both are sturdy players who shine best in big golf, particularly Sime. but both are at present suffering a lean time, which may have been the reason for their omission from the selection. A. E. Ekstedt. of Palmerston Xorth. has .also been playing excellent golf and may have received some consideration, but he is hardly up to national standard yet. CATHRO’S RAPID RISE L. Cathro, one of the semi-finalists at last October, should also be worthy of consideration, but a great deal has not been heard of him during the past few months, and It may be that his effort in the national championships last year was only a flutter and not a true index to his form. Cathro was considered to be the find of the Belmont tournament, and his putting placed him among the semi-finalists. He is a native of Wanganui, has only played golf for a little over three years, and is selftaught. He is well-knit, sturdy, but has a peculiar stance, which gives him an appearance of awkwardness which is really a delusion, for no golfer in New Zealand sends the ball so consistently straight as he does. He is a butcher by trade, and he is only able to find time for golf at the week-ends, during the past two seasons he has been getting surprising results. Good players as Ekstedt, Cathro, Leo Quin and A. G. Sime undoubtedly are, it does not seem possible to place any one of them in the Kirk-Windeyer Cup team by the ousting of ony one of the five selected. Now that Morpeth has departed for Australian shores they are undoubtedly New Zealand’s leading golfers, and as such the match for the cup may be safely left in their hands.