GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, 26 June 1915, Page 9

GOLF.

NEWS FROM 'NEAR AND FAR. The match for prizes presented by Mr. A. fc>. Hasell, open to any Taranuki golfers, will t.ake place at 'Waiwakaiho on Thursday week. * * # The New Plymouth Club has circularised the other Tarnilhki <M>lf clubs seeking an opinion on whether the stymie should be abolished or retained. * The New Plymouth Club is in favor of abolishing the stymie, but no action can be taken without the ruling of the English Golf Council. * * # 1 Mr. Balfour once remarked that it was a good thing that non-golfers thought golfers fools and idiots; otherwise they would want to play themselves, in which ease there would not possibly be room for everyone to play; and that would end in no one's being able to" play at all. * * » Throughout New Zealand to-day golfers will compete for the prize presented by the Wellington professionals, Douglas and Watt, in aid of the Wounded (Soldiers' Fund. The Taranaki clubs will take part in the match, and the New Plymouth Club's links it will be played in conjunction with the St. Andrew's Cross competition. * # * The following official announcement has been made by the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, in regard to the Open Golf Championship, which was due to be played over the course of that club Ibis month. The six clubs controlling the Open Golf Championship have unanimously decided as follows:--(l) That there shall be no open championship (meeting on the year 1015; (2) that no future open championship meeting be held until the war is over; (3) that on the resumption of the open championship the rota be resumed, and that the next open championship meeting be held at Deal. The decisions have received the unanimous support of the Professional Golfers' Association. * * ,-* The following paragraph appeared in the London Daily Mail:—"Some of us have been trading with the enemy. Not directly, or intentionally, but trading all the same. We have been investing in German war loans. This is the story of our financial treachery. During the six or seven months preceding the war tho Berlin Golf Club, composed to the extent of about 3.5 or 40 per cent, of j j English and Americans domiciled in Ber-1 lin, raised by subscription a cash fund of 250,000 marks (£l2/100) for construction and equipment of a splendid new course and club-house near Potsdam. Part of the grounds on which the links were to be laid out was Crown land, placed at the club's disposal through the influence of Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia. Seeding and other operations were actively in progress in mid-summer. PiM, the entire fund being in hand and in deposit with the Drosdner Bank in Berlin. The AngloAmerican participation in the subscription was much larger than (he numerical proportion it represented in the club membership. Sir Edward Goschen, tho British Ambassador, was honorary president of (lie organisation. These facts apparently were responsible for the recent action of the German Imperial Treasury in expropriating the entire fund of' ;C12,500 and investing it in the German loan securities. Several of tic 'investors' are now guests of the German War Office in the British civilian-con-centration camp at Ruhlcbcn, which is near the old premises of the golf dull. Incidi'iitaily, the episode throws a light on how (he -phenomenal success' of the / Oernian war loans is achieved." ''{ The following appears in an exchange: '[ You have kicked in with a serum for the Great White Plague: You have upporcul the Typhus, on the jaw: : You havecopp.d an anaesthetic 1 to relieve the dintheret !,• ' And the rest of ii'yoii've cut out with a. saw. But tell me. gonile doctors, ere the morlal coil is oil. Is there nothing voii've discovered in the medicaled trough That may curb the ra-ing fever 'jf <■ this game calico., ---'.if--i- You have cantered in In (.angrone will; a knock-out punch: You have hamnai-ed Scai-ie! !Vycr i, ■;-, tin- ropes: ■s i You have even found lie- answer 1, To a. mild degr ' t anccr. e And you've killed ihe drug oniieuincni n of the dopes. i- But tell me. learned do, tors, is then if nothing vol; car ■■' , husbands who s' Can only rave of Stymies a.n,| ; Perfect Follow Through?