BOMB-MADE BUNKERS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 81, 29 December 1917, Page 9

BOMB-MADE BUNKERS

Tho above heading, suggestiveof the battlefield in France, is _ the ititle to somo observations on things in England by the London "Sportsman" in October:—

"If the Gotha guerillas , had been trying particularly hard to hit golf courses during tho harvest moon raids thoy might legitimately claim some success. One course near tho coast received a shower of eight bombs, but tho worst that was done was the ereation of a number of "pot , " bunkers which the members ought to find very interesting. Be it remembered that for a year or more Mr. A. 6. Lockwood, an old Weston-super-Mare player, and now one of the leading linkn architects in America, has been making his bunkers by a process of blasting with high explosive. He lise found tho scheme effective, as well as quick and economical. So that the Germans are doing nothing original by remodolh'nG; some of our courses by bombinn them, and so long as they keep off the putting greens—as they have done .with singular good fortune up to tho present—they will causo less annoyance by raiding golf links than almost any other places. "Ono well-known course had a teeing ground demolished by a missile which was dropped by a frustrated Gotha on its way bark home. Perhaps, however, it will be possible to make n. new teeing ground a little further back, and URO the remains of the old ono as a haznrd to catch badly-topped drives. Another links near by received two bombs. It would be a pity to fill in the-marks of these visitations; they will have a deep interest for posterity. A courso which was bombed by a Zeppelin nearly "two years ago set a proper example by adopting the two cavities that resulted—one large and the other small—as bnnlcprs. nut! calling them Eio; Willie ntid Little AVilUc. Tho nomenclature of thn. Gothn-nuuV hoards offers an attractive field for study."