GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 59, 18 June 1910, Page 3

GOLF.

(By "Cleek.") McCormick, the Auckland professional, who was here earlv in the season, will pay a return visit early in August. Twenty-seven entries have ueen received for the Ngamotu Club's bogey handicap to .be played this afternoon. The following is the draw:—SouthaM and Jack, C. H. Burgess and Armitage, Standish and Rev. Chapman, Hanson and C. A. Jones, Glasgow and Rev. Evans, Bewley and Stow, Weston and Matthews, Johns and Bayley, McCord and Beaumont, Steeds and Benbow, Paton and R. Gray, Ward and Haslam, Mackay, S. Burgess and Fraser. About thirty players turned out on Thursday at the Carrington Road links. A handicap match was played, Pe.rham's card being the best of those returned •Good headway is being made with the erection of the Carrington Road Club's pavilion. It should be finished early next week. The building is about 24ft. by lift., and will contain two dressing rooms and a refreshment room. The cost will be in the vicinity of £SO. Provision is made for extending and improving the structure. A match is being arranged between the Waitara and Carrington Road clubs. It will eventuate at an early date. The holes of the Carrington Road Club's new links have been styled: "The Ponds," "The Junction," "Tit-bits," "The Gully," "The Mountain," "The • Pines," "Gantlope" (after the name of the estate on which the links are situated'), "The Kopje" and "Home." Already there is iprobablv more humor to be derived from golf than from any other game, but there are untold possibilities about its latest development. This is golf in the dark—not the bright night of the far northern islands, where the game has 'been played at midnight, but the common black night of lower latitudes. The explanation of this almost incredible development is balls coated with luminous paint, so'as to be visible at a distance of twenty yards. Two members of a Manchester' .lub introduced this weird novelty rec ntly, before an excited but sceptical enwd. The test was interesting, but sen \ely conclusive, It was_demonstrated ; hat'it was possible to hit a ball in tlv dark, and not merely to excavate roui:, it, and the players actually ''holed on'.' on one or two greens, but unfortunately the con- ' testants were by no meai.s in the first class, and the "slicing'' and "pulling" of shots made the task of f.nding the balls more difficult than it might have been. . The caddies'got tired of wandering ! about in the dark, looking for luminous spiles, ji;i | the game w;is soon abandoned, j 'the new tv ',rt is evidently for players | who r-an ]■: >y with an accuracy denied to tlv.' rar'. and £],', whose wanderings and s ■!!"•; !.igs arc often quite sufficiently painful <r. ! he iroadest of broad daylight. If .golf by night becomes popular, a new edition of "The Sorrows of a I Golfer's Wife" will foe necessary. But inav not a pr< .est be legitimately made against playing outdoor '.mines at night? Life would be tolerable, it has been said, if it were not for its amusements, and this unnatural invasion of the darkness by recreations that already take up a great part of the day is not likely to ease the burden.

The caddie regarded the corrugated turf at the tee with a thoughtful frown. "Yes, sir, since you ask me the question, there are worse players than you. - ' | '".[ tiiditulif <o; I thought so,''.said I Ik.'] golfer. "Km they hiive tin* sense." ;;,;!- eit <':.:• expert, "not to play unit', but lo ,st;! ; .' at home and saw wood." INGLEWOOD v. WAIT ABA. These teams tried conclusions al Inglewood on Thursday. The local reau gained a very easy victory by 7 games t<s 2. Detailed scores, luglewood beiag mentioned first, are as follow: Thomson (5 up) v. Grimstone. Law (5 up) v. Cunningham. Gudgeon (4 up) v. Ashton. Biovnacki (5 up) v. Linn. Glassford (7 op) v. Kidd. Gault (4 up) v. Dowaett. Mrs. Thomson '(4 down)' v. Mrs. Grimstone. Mrs. Gault (5 up) v. Mis? H. Spoddart.