GOLF

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 304, 17 September 1921, Page 13

GOLF

WOMAN CHAMPION PLANS OF HER CANADIAN AND U.S. TRIP Miss Cecil Leitch, the woman champion, left Liverpool in the Megantio on August 27 for her golfing trip to Canada and the United States. The champion was accompanied by her sister, Miss Edith Leitch, and Miss Doris Chambers, the Cheshire county player. Miss Leitch and her companions intend to compete in the Canadian women's championship, which takes placo at Biver Mead on September 18-24, and when this is decided they will travel on to Deal, New Jersey, U.S.A. to take part in the national championship of America, which opens at Deal on October 3. It is with the definite object of playing in these two championships that Miss Cecil Leitch is crossing the Atlantic, and when they are over sho and her companions will probably make a 'more or less extended tour throughout the States playing in many of the leading tournaments. After 29 Years,

Jack Bowe, the local professional, has ■'won the golf championship of Sussex on the famous Boyal Ashdown Forest course at Forest Bow, writes E.H. in the "Daily Mail." His rounds wore: 76, 74, 75, and 79) total, 364. That was a very excellent performance on the part of a man of 51. Still, the years sit lightly on Eowe. He is as lithe and fit as any youngster. His success may bo set down as a reward of patience. Since he left his native Westward Ho! in Devon, 29 years ago, to become a professional golfer he has served the Boyal Ashdown Forest Club. He has played for England against Scotland three times, but this is his first victory on his adopted heath. Indeed, he has had few other opportunities there. Prior to this week there had been, no professional competition at Forest Bow since 1897, when all the leading men of the day took part in an affair of 36 holes. The late and great Douglas Bolland, then nearing the end of his heydey, and James Braid, who had not long turned professional, tied at 155 for first place. Rowe came next with 158. The course has peen lengthened since that meeting 24 years ago. but its general characteristics— its natural architecture, its wealth or heather and bracken, and its beautiful ✓ forest setting—remain the same. Corrugated Clubs Forbidden. Mr. Henry Gallon, secretary of the Royal and Ancient Club, St. Andrews, has issued the following statement made by Mr. Angus V. Hambro, M.P., chairman of the Rules of Golf Committee, on the use of corrugated clubs: —"Clubs of the corrugated, grooved, or slotter type having been submitted to the Bules of Golf Committee, it has been decided that after July 1, 1921 the use of such clubs will not be permitted in match or stroke play competitions played under the Bules of Golf, as approved by the Royal and Ancient Club of St. Andrews. It is the opinion of the Rules of Golf Committee that such clubs involve a substantial departure from the traditional and accepted form and make of golf clubs. The Rules of Golf Committee does not (Consider that the patterns scored or punched on the faces of iron clubs in the manner customary for a number of years can bo held to bo a substantial departure from the accepted form and make of clubs. The committee is confident that golfers will have no difficulty in applying this decision to individual cases. But any player who is in doubt about the legality of a particular club can obtain a ruling on it by forwarding it to tho secretary of tho Rules of Golf Committee, Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, Fife. In order to prevent the necessity of an exact definition, clubmakors are asked to abstain from marking the faces of clubs in any way which might lead to ambiguity." Mitchell Gives Up in Championship. British hopes of victory in the United States open golf championship at Chevy Chase, Washington, dimmed when Abe Mitchell, North Foreland, after taking 41 for tho first nine holes of his second round, picked up his ball and withdrew from tho contest. His morning round of 81 was a story of topped drives, misstfi putts, and other misfortunes. After luncheon it soon became apparent Kurt he was right off form. He bocamo demoralised. In the afternoon ho began indifferently and took 6 at tho 3rd hole owing to a lost ball, after taking 7 at the sth. At this hole he missed a twelveinch putt. On tho ninth green he had a three-yard putt for a 5. He then picked up. Mitchell said he had no excuses except that ho was not feeling in.form. A Router’s message says that Mitchell was upset by the great heat, which rendered golf difficult. He said he was “fed up” by the atmosphere.