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TURNED PROFESSIONAL. FERRIER GIVES REASON. iß.v Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) PINEHURST. Marell 29. J. Ferrier, the Australian amateur golf champion, who has announced that he is turning professional, said that it was because ho had (wo good offers simultaneously and could not afford to turn them down. Ho had an offer of a professional job at Elmhurst Country Club, Chicago, from Fred Suite, senior, father of’the iron lung patient, for an undisclosed sum. He was considering the offer when he received another to represent Wilson’s sporting goods company, the largest in the world. He therefore accepted both. Ferrier was reticent about his citizenship plans and preferred not to make a statement. Mrs Ferrier was equally enthusiastic about receiving the jobs almost a year to the day after Ferrier landed. She is delighted. They had booked passage for Australia early in the year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 March 1941, Page 3
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