GOLF

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 106, 5 May 1923, Page 21

GOLF

NOTES AND COMMENTS. CORRECT DRESS. 11. B. I.usk was right on Ins game; Insi Saturday, when he came home :'. up , on bogfey. To accomplish such a feat ' from the plus one mark was a fine per-' formiinee. The match was the Hart ; Memorial bogey competition, and Lusk ■ shared the position of first with A. Wai- j l-r. who also played well from the handicap :; mark. i V. S. Ballin. nf the Mauugakiekic Club, I is a much improved player, and he j ]>!aycd pood golf in the "bogey match at Titiranfii last Saturday, which he won I from the S mark with'a score of 3 up. In stating- the case for the professionals. "Baffy," of the "Wellington Post" writes as follows in regard to the advisaliilKy and the probability of making a professional meet ins: an annual fixture. ■At their dubs the professionals are constantly hard at work, and pet very little opportunity for practice, particularly in the period before the annual championship meeting, when they are expected to produce form suflicient to place them above the run of amateurs. tOf laic years the net result to Now Ze.a- ---| land has been the loss of two of its j best professionals in the loersonr; of i ! Douglas and McEwan. This rear lias been tho first in which any attempt of v definite character has been made to help the professionals nlong. I understand thai the New Zealand Golf Council is considering the matter of making , ■ a levy of 1/ per golfer per year with the object of providing a prize fund which would amount to about £400 per year, and this would enable a yearly professional tournament, which," after all. is only what is due to the men who put so much time into the progress of tho pame. There is only one fault that T can see about the proposal, and that is that the levy is too small. After all, 2/ per player would make ii really decent prize fund, and the price to each player would only be that of a 'repaint' per year. The amateurs should be able to afford that. \o details of the scheme have been made available, and the method of collection would require to have something more than mere voluntary contribution behind it, if the donaitions of tiie amateurs to the prize money lat Xew. Plymouth last week is any indication. The »w Plymouth Club guaranteed the £50 which'was set down as the

nmatPlirs" prize, hut the amounts forwarded did not roach this total, and the club had the amount to make no as well a= having all the expenses and inconvenience of running the tournament, which was not patronised by the New Plymouth players and public aa it might have been. Several clubs did their share, l)iit in many cases the lists for donation••vere posted while there were still many players who lind not resumed the frame for the winter, and these did not subscribe, in one or two ease? the club? forwarded their amounts without waiting to actually collect them, and other clubs might have done similarly."

The question of what is a. fitting garb for Hip golf course has created a great deal of comment of late, and the timehonoured conventional dress is rather i scoffed at outside of Britain. The J Americana in particular have adopted a costume all their own, and it must be said ill ii lanre number of eases the effect is weird nnd wonderful. In the old days, for a player to appear on tlio links without a eont was a heinous crime, and branded the individual, in the opinion of people of taste, as a rank outsider: in fact, it is doubtful if he would bo allowed afterwards on the links. This convention is still fairly strictly adhered to in Kngland, although the Tnorecomfortahle woollen jacket is gradually growing in favour and is not uncommon these lafter days. It matters not that one appears on the links with the most, disreputably old clothes, and a case of the latter was told in a very good etory in "Punch," whon the very shabby but [distinguished colonel was approached by lan immaculate individual, attired in jnlus four':. ,: Aro you the caddy master?" [demanded the dandy. "Xo." Ye.plied the colonel indignantly, "but I -happen to I know that he doesn't want any caddies ■ this morning." I Ac would he expected, greater interest i« shown liv the women in the matter of dress, and it is also to be expected that they will not hesitate as long as the conservative male in revolutionising the question of clothes for the links. The following paragraph on this matter | jis written by a lady correspondent to a ! ! Southern paper:— \ I "Quite « lot' is being said about the ' 'new mode of dres* adopted by some women golfers. The subject is frequently cropping up: and one hears described tlie 'eont-and-breeches' costume with a snod deal of remonstrance and ! criticism. And yet it is purely a matter of u«e jind eu = tnm. Long ago it was I thought a terrible thine for a woman to jride a bicycle or ride horseback astride. (The hunting girl, when she discarded the i riding habit for hoots and breeches had I many cynical glances east at her. Hut i'iie ppfticoatleps srolf girl—well, she is a pioneer in her field and will undonbtledlv have to run the gauntlet of a [cold and cruel world of women until the I mode is as established as that of skirtIpsb riders. The 'Sunday Times' of Xew York says: 'There is nothing , shocking lor outrageous in this new golf costume. Mi is graceful, it is sensible and it is attractive to look at. Almost all the ! coat-and-hr»eche', eolf suits come in

tnree-piece sets; that is, a skirt i= included in tlio outfit, and one may wehr

the skirt when desired. Sometimes there ai" four pieces, coat, breeches,

skirt and rape. One suit of Knclish tuned is in mixed black and white, with a jrreen thread. Tlie cut nf 'the loose, pusy coat and tlie softly-draped breeches bea'wtV: the art of a "firet class tailor.

Willie MeEwan. the one-time champion nf NV>«- Zealand, and who for some time n-as professional at Middlemore and later at is doimr remarkably well in America, where he is first pro-fe.---io:ial to the well-known Presidio Club, and is held in very high esteem. With Harold Sampson as a partner. llcEwan recently played a match against One Sarazen .and Jock Hutchinson but after leading in the early part, wore beaten by 4to 3 Sampson failing to maintain' his form. In commenting on tlie frame, an exchange says that the quartet were given'a great ovation at thf rinish. Willie McEwan played some

orcat <-olf. and' his tee shots were a feature 0 of the match. McEwan was married recently, hie bride being Mis* Jean Cameron, of Sydney, and J. H. Kirkwood rras best man.

lieve. Rona has tlie advantage of being | sailed in nearly all her races liy the | same skipper and crew, and the importance of this from a. racing point of view is not generally understood. To j prove it, we have only to look at 1 lie j record of Waitere in the -ifift class and ] Marie in the 22's. In both cases, the same skipper and crew race in them each week, j and tiie records of tiiese two boats arc something to i>e proud of. Now that Kuna's linos have been taken off the Wit herself and a full set of moulds and templates made which should greatly simplify building, even by amateurs, and ensure any new boats •being like and. we hop,-, as fast, as Ronu. the class should get. a new lease of life, in spite of the fact that more than one effort, ha* been made to kill it. It muse not be forgotten that we have to defend our title to the Sander? Cup next season and the earlier we set about it the better. Our Southern friends hud 'such a definite demonstration of Fiona's superiority over their own boats in the ! last match that »c feel s-.ire all dialj lengera noxi year will !»• represented I with Southern-built Ronas. and for this i reason we must He ready to meet them ! with boats of the sumo type. It may j-be asked. '"What are we going n> do i with the t<-n or twelve boats now eligible ■for the cl.i"-:" It must be admitted j that this i> a problem to be faced. I Possibly, if an entirely new class of •boats are built from Kona's plans, some ' system of penalties might be adopted '< for the old boats, which would serve to .equalise them to a certain extent. What ever is done with the present boats there can be no question of the good the class has achieved in the five or six j years it' has been going, and we shall be disappointed if men cannot be found with enough public spirit, to come forward and build to the ne.v plans in spite of their co3i and so keep alive our ■ one and only class in which inter- : provincial racing can be carrier! on with : a minimum of expense nurl trouble in transport, and a maximum of interest 'on behalf of the public, which latter is largely due to the gallant New Zealand j sailor whose memory tlie contests serve

jto perpetuate. j Unfortunately, the races O n the f u , a i : dosing day, and, in fact, last Saturday, have been followed with a crop of protests. These have already been taken up by the Yacht and Motor Boat Association, one each in the launch race and the 22--footers race. nv.A another in the A class. Itona is reported to huve fouled the Resolution mark la.-t Sniurday, anil her skipper reported thr matjtor to the judge at the finish n: ilie race, maintaining that !i« \ras forced on to it hy Joan. All of the protests / are now being dealt with, two by the