GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 301, 29 May 1915, Page 7

GOLF.

ITEMS FROM NEAR AND FAR.

The next mixed foursomes to be held by the New Plymouth Club will take place oh June 17.

'Playing on the New Plymouth Club's links recently K. Bain did the first hole in two, beiifg on the green with his drive and holing a long putt. The distance of the hole is 292 yards.

C. Locke, the Taranaki professional, will be at the New Plymouth Club's links from next Thursday. Players wishing to receive lessons should give their names to Mr. W. P. Nicoll.

In the match against Hawera at Hawera on Thursday, the New Plymouth Club will have a very strong team, led by J. F. Ritchie, the Taranaki champion. Players wishing to go to Hawera arc requested to hand their names to Mr. A, Bewley by Monday night.

The new ' professional coach the Miramar Club, E. S. 'Douglas, took up his duties on May 15. He is the present holder of the open championship of New Zealand.

On days when the greens are wet players should be careful not to stand near the holes. Some of the holes on the New Plymouth Club's links were treated in this way on Thursday, with the result that players following those responsible for this had to sillier in their putting.

On the New Plymouth Club's links this a'fternoon and next Saturday eclectic matches will be played, Both matches, > less medal handicaps, will count for the Standish Cup, while the best eighteen holes from the two rounds, less the bogey handicap, will jiroduca the winner of the eclectic match. The eclectic match will not count in the Standish Cup.

A fund is being raised to perpetuate the memory of Miss M. Neill Fraser, the Scottish international golfer, who- died in Servia, where she had gone for Red Cross work as a member of the Scottish Women's Hospital It Is proposed that the memorial shall take the form of the endowment of a bed in the hospital at Kragujevae, where she .succumbed* to fever.

The New Plymouth Clul» will play inter-club matches against Hawera, at Hawcra next Thursday; v. Witiora, at Witiorft June 12; v. Inglewood, at Inglewood, June 17; v. Stratford, at New Plymouth, June 24; v. Inglewood, at New Plymouth, August 12; v. Stratford, at Stratford, in September. It is also hoped to arrange matches against Waitara and Tarahua.

Teams representing Tarahua and Inglewood met at Inglewood on Thursday afternoon, and the match ended in favor of the home team. Following weTe the scores, Tarahua being mentioned first:—G. Chong and IT. J. M. Thomson, all square; P. Grey beat X. Sutherland, 5 up and 4; N. Perry beat Johnson, flip and *1; J. Cannell lost to Surrey, 2 down; D. 'M'orey lost to Hogg. 2 down and 1; A. T. Moore lost to .Marshall, 1 down; J. Grey lost to J. Sutherland, G and 4; Renner lost to Darlow, (i and 5; E. Carter lost to G. Sutherland !) and 7.

The force with w'nich a golf ball rs driven was illustrated by the accident which befel former Attorney-General Francis X. Carmory at the Oakland Golf Club, Bayside, N.Y. A viciously pulled drive by his opponent caught him on the thumb, the bone of which was broken in four places. When the surgeon examined the injury and informed the patient of the number of breaks, Carmody turned to his opponent and exclaimed: "What do you think of that? Broken'in four places, do you hear? Four." "Well, wasn't that what I called before 1 drove?" asked file other. "Say, would you mind," asked Carmody in a tone of deep feeling, "to sliout 'One!' after this before your drive?"— Golfers' Mag&zine, Chicago.

The question of woman's ability to play golf well (a New York correspondent writes) is a much mooted one on this side of the water an* fruitful of endless discussions among enthusiasts who claim a great advancement lias been' made by women as well as men in America. The American woman golfer who can combine the driving ability of Miss Lillian B. Hyde, considered by many to be the lopgost driver in the world, the crispness of irons of Miss, Marion Hollins, the reliable putting of the present champion, Mrs. H. Arnold Jackson, of Boston, and the consistent playing of Mrs. R. H. Barlow, of Philadelphia, will be the woman champion of the world. A few years has done much for the game of golf in ti«s country. Once a society fad, it has become a national pastime. It is no longer the game of the few in America. On the public links of the parks everybody can play it, and the public courses of Van Courtlandt and other parka around New York are crowded during the season. There arc fewer "golf widows" now, however, for women have become fascinated with flic game and are among the best type of players. Hundreds are entered every year for the women's national golf championship. It is estimated that there are 112 golf courses within a radius of 50 miles of New York, and that 30,000 men and. women within this territory play golf. Women's progress in the game has been interesting to note, and it is now generally admitted that their work on the links compares favorably with the men's. At the men's national amateur championship at the Ekwanok County Club Miss Hyde made longer drives than three-fourths of the men who competed for the cham- | pionship.

Longer carries with the. Challenger Coif Bull beraii.se it is designed and constructed to parry further than the heaviest balls, To play one is to ensure full value out of everv stroke. :;<)