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Taranaki Daily News, 11 September 1915, Page 7

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ITEMS FROM NEAR AND FAR. G. Chong and P. Grey are left in the final of the championship of the Tara■hua Club. The Witiora Club will send a team of men to Waitara this afternoon to play the Waitara Club. # » * . In the report of the results of the Tarahua-Witiora match yesterday it was stated that P. Grey defeated Haslam, whereas Haslam was the winner. * * # New Plymouth will play Stratford at Stratford next Thursday. (Players wishing to go to Stratford should give their names to Mr. A. Bewlcy on Monday morning. , The Pate a Club will close the season to-day with a mixed foursome. t » • The final for the championship of the Waitemata Ladies' Club was played on August 27 th between Miss Goudie, holder, and Miss Gudgeon, Miss Goudie winning by 3 up and 2 to play. A mateb for first year players resulted: Miss Johnson 126—40—8<i; Mrs. Roehe( 141 —40 —101. Many of tho golf clubs at Home are devoting their spare land to the cultivation of crops, as being one means of assisting in this time of stre33. On the. Sunningdale Links a large vegetable garden is already in existence, and at North Surrey course, plots of ground have been granted to the greenmen to raise crops for themselves. . The final of the men's championship of the New Plymouth Club will be played to-day between F. S. Johns and A. Bewley. The match will be over 30 holes, the first round commencing at 10.30 a.m., and the second round about 2 p.m. The weather indications were not favorable last night, but the match will be played unless the aay is particularly wet. An interesting and close match should be provided, and the game is a very "open" one. A few years ago these players met in the final, and on that occasion A. Bewley beat F. S. Johns, 2 up and 1. Mr. R. AddenbrooKe will act as umpire. According to the American notes in late issues of "Golf Illustrated" this is going to be a boom year for golf in America, where millions of dollars are being expended in laying out links and | on clubhouse buildings, Last year there I were from 50,000 to 80,000 new aspirants at the game, and it is estimated that this year will find some hundred thousand new golfers. The laying out of eight new courses haa beeu commenced within the vioinity of New York, and this will represent an initial outlay before they are ready for play of something like three and a half million dollars. In fact one oosrse •lonferiftej

Lido, at Long 'Beach, Long Island—if tta promoters carry out their plana, trill coat close on (hat amount. Included in their plans is to 'be a. casino, hotel, and bathing pavilion after the style of the famous Lido 'near Venice. Some well-known financiers are 'backing tba proposition, including Cornelius Vatflerbilt, [Robert Goelet, J. P. Morgan, and Otto H. Kahn. The course is being made by pumping in sand from a nearly channel. Six feet of sand has already been deposited to cover the sunken parts, which are to be raised from Vt to 16ft before the desired height is reached. Mounds from 10ft to BWt high are to 'be made for undulations'on some of the fairways. The whole ia to be covered 2ft deep with top soil and fertilisers. They "do things" in Ameriot and when this course is finished it Kill be well worth a golfer's viSt to the country to see it. In all there are about nil new courses under construction, and Ihcro is talk of more to follow. Public links appear to 1 be a great institution in America, and are lately patronised, Philadelphia being tile latest city to k-i. out a course, wiiicii Ts *tu"K WOO yards long, and is intended to be the finest public golf course in the world.