"GOLF" TEMPERAMENT

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 140, 14 June 1924, Page 19

"GOLF" TEMPERAMENT

WORTH A COUPLE OF HOLES.

Describing the golf championship match between Miss Cecil Leitch and Miss Wethered, at Nortlrwood, which ended in the defeat of Miss Leitch by the convincing margin of 5 and 3, Mr. G. .W. Greenwood (in the "Daily Telegraph ") says that not by wofd or gesture, not even by the movement of an eyelid, did Miss Wethered betray what was passing through her mind. She was as emotionless as a graven image, and it was only when Miss Leitch • gave the sign of surrender on the fifteenth green that Miss Wethered relaxed. A faint smile flickered across her face as someone—it may have been Miss Leitch herself —said, quite audibly, " Well done, Joyce." To see Miss Wethered, calm, tool, and amazingly collected, perform before several hundreds of people, one wonders to; what; extent her priceless temperament plays in the work of destroying the enemy. /& tremendous lot,, to be sure. There is nothing so disconcerting, nothing so calculated to get one's nerves on edge as to stalk round a golf course with a foe who absolutely refuses to be jostled or hustled. This is Miss Wethered j without hurrying and without fuss she attends to the businesss of dispatching the ball, and whether the hitting is for good or ill the displays neither pleasure no annoyance. I have met only two golfers like her in this respect; one is Mr. John Ball, and the other is Braid. It is the perfect golfing temperament,' and translated into values it is worth a couple of holes. > Did not Miss Leitch herself marvel at it when they met for the first time at Sheringham four years ago? As Miss Wethered was putting on the seventeenth green, an express train dashed by with a fearful and disturbing rattle. -To Miss Leitch's astonishment, her opponent proceeded with the stfoke without a second's pause, and aft/nvards completely confpunded everybody by stating that, she .was totally oblivious to the fact that a train had passed. Concentration such as this is so rare a gift that it is hardly sni-prising Miss ■Wethered has awnpt everything before her in so short a space of. time.

, Census.statistics for Somersetshire, EiiirVi" d,;,-Sive the county, a population of 465,710, continue^ with 87^7? in im.