GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 53, 11 June 1910, Page 3

GOLF.

■At a committee meeting of the Carl'ington Road Club on Monday it was decided to proceed with the erection of a clubhouse on the new links. The building, which will (be completed in the course of a few weeks, should prove a great convenience to the members of the new club. Mr. Walter J. Travers, the American goLfer, who won the British Amateur championship in 1904, has just published in his American golf magazine a great tirade against the British golfers and golf officials for their lack of good sportman ship on the occasion of his victory. It is most extraordinary that Mr. Travis should have waited for such a lengthy period as six years before giving publication to his allegation®. His manner of expressing himself is also not likely to meet with much approval. For instance, after declaring that Mr. J. HoUlen (Royal Liverpool), the opponent against whom he was drawn in the first round, grounded his club in a pot bunker going to the seventh hole, he speaks of his inability to secure any caddie other than a natu-ral-born idiot, and cross-eyed at. that." As '"Golfing" (the well-knowr. English' journal) remarks: "This may be con sidered very funny toy Amer.eans, but—-

well, it is not golf." Mr. Travia sayar ''l shall never compete in Great Britain again, for your golfers are such bad losers." Then he declares that he had to pay carriage on the cup, which was "all dented into the bargain." British golfers have lost little time ia Yepk«ug to Mr. Travis' char.>* -. and someone recalls a letter writ tin by Mr. Travis on June W), 19(14, in winch he asked to be allowed "to e.vpres- mv kceu appreciation of the warm sentiment:, displayed by personal friends, vnmpiini'.ive strangers, and absolute strangw.v-but brothers all.'' Mr. H. H\ Hilton, who met Mr. Travis in the fifth round of the Amateur Championship of I'll;|. has written a reply to the American, and in the course of a fair statement, of all the facts explains the trivial character of the various molehills which, in the cour-c of six vears of silent brooding, have swollen into mountains in Mr. Travis imagination.