GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, 21 August 1915, Page 7

GOLF.

NEW PLYMOUTH CLUB. The second rounds of the ladies' championships—senior and junior—of the New Plymouth Club were played yesterday afternoon, with the following results:— SENIOR. Mrs. Johns beat Miss Thomson, 4 up and 3, Miss Blundell beat Miss G.' Pott, 2 up and 1. Miss K. Free bea't Mrs. Hutton, 4 up and 3. Miss Brewster beat Miss Free, 9 up and 8. The final will be played on Tuesday. JUNIOR. Mrs. Flower beat Miss Leatham, 1 up, Mrs. Davies beat Mrs. Drew, 0 up and 4. Mrs. Walker beat Miss Rollo, 4 up and 3. Mrs. McQuade, a bye. The finals will be played on Tuesday.

STRATFORD CLUB. Mixed foursomes (13 holes) were played on Thursday for prizes presented by Mr. A. F. Grant, Mrs. Grant giving tea. When the scores were put in it was seen that- Mr. and Mrs. S. Spence and Mr. Abraham and Mrs. Howard had tied with net 70, and they played four more holes. Mr. Abraham and Mrs. Howard, having a handicap of 2, put in a score of 24, net 221, and their opponents 23, the game thus going to Mr. Abraham 'and Mrs. Howard by 1 stroke'ion 17 holes. There were 48 players, and visitors thoroughly enjoyed the afternoon.

NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR, The first round of the men's championship of the New Plymouth Club will be played thiß afternoon. A novel way of assisting the local war fund has been adopted by the New Brighton Golf Club (reports a Christchurch paper). A. K. Hadfield, one of the' members, has presented a putter. This will be played for periodically during the progress of the war, and each winner will have his name engraved on the putter. At the conclusion of the war those having their names on will play off for it. The entrance fee is to be 2s fid each match, and by thiß manner the club hopes to collect a fair amount of money. The whole proceeds derived will be handed to the Red Cross Fund.

The famous amateur golfer, Captain John Graham, Liverpool Scottish, has been killed in Belgium. He was born at Liverpool in 1877, and will always be remember as one of the most brilliant, and, at the same time, most unfortunate players who ever drove a ball. A member of the Royal Liverpool Club, lie stood on a par in point of merit with his celebrated dubmates, John Ball and Harold Hilton, yet fate seemed always against Win, and he was never destined to rival their public performances. As a stroke player he was very nearly equal to the beat professionals, and several times in his career he broke the recora for the course while competing for the Open Championship, in which he more than once finished as first amateur.

The following paragraph, sent by a St. Andrew's contribution to Golf Illustrated, will be interesting to all golfers: —"The difficulty of procuring wood, ow!ng to the conditions brought about by the war, may soon have a very serious effect on the golf dub industry. A local St. Andrew's firm sent an order to a Glasgow merchant for persimmon logs for this season, and, as far as they could see, there was no immediate prospect of their getting any. On account of the war, it was impracticable to get freight room, the shipping companies refusing to take timber except at figures which were quite prohibitive. Thero was the same difficulty in getting hickory logs, and the firm had no expectation of fresh shipments of these logs arriving this season."

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