TWO PLAYERS HONOURED

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30776, 14 June 1965, Page 12

TWO PLAYERS HONOURED

Murray And

Foxton

' Senior players joined with members of the Canterbury Provincial Golf Association al Rangiora yesterday to honour R. C. Murray and K. D. Foxton. on the eve of Murray’s departure for Dunedin and Foxton's transfer to the professional ranks. The president of the associa tion (Mr G. V. Williams), who made presentations to both players, referred to the great contribution they had made to Canterbury golf. Murray, said Mr Williams, was a golfer of world class, and had been the mainstay of the provincial team.

“He is a very fine amateur player and a gentleman,’’ he said. “We will remember him. as a lot of his opponents will remember him. with his pugnacious jaw jutting out. Whether it was calculated to strike terror into his opponents or nc* 1 don't know, but it certainly gave them misgivings."

Mr Williams said he knew of no more colourful golfer than Foxton. But he was also a grand club man and was noted for his willingness to play anywhere and anybody. “And,’’ he added, ‘ if any man bad to pull a game out of the fire. Keith Foxton was the man to do it.”