WELL SATISFIED

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 4, 5 July 1927, Page 11

WELL SATISFIED

KIRK-WINDEYER CUP TOUR

MR. R. C. KIRK'S IMPRESSIONS

Thoroughly imbued with a senso of the magnificent hospitality of Australian golfers, and looking better than when lie went away, Mr. E. C. Kirk, president of the New Zealand Golf Council, and-the founder of: the KirkWindeycr Cup, which has definitely established yearly international golf contests wifh Australian States, returned to-day from Sydney. There appeared, he said to a "Post" reporter, to have been some little hitch with Victoria when the contost was being arranged, that Stato not falling in with the arrangements agreed upon by the Australian Golf Union, but ho had been able to arrange by cable for the inclusion of the Victorian team in the contest on the same basis as the other States. Organisation in golf was not on the samo basis as in New Zealand, and there was no levy of 2s and Is for men and women as there was here to arrange finance upon, things being done in a rather hand-to-mouth fashion compared with New Zealand. J-ntliusiasm mado up for organisation to a largo extent, and there was little doubt that in future arrangements could bo mado fully accceptable to all States, because ho had assured the Australian Golf' Union that the New Zealand Golf Association would meet in with any arrangements that were at all possiblp.

In regard to the carrying of the Boss match to tho twentieth green, that had been done to agree with Australian wishes, Tmt ho did not consider that it should have? occurred, as tho match was ended on the eighteenth. Th« Australian wish was acceded to because they sought as clear a demarcation of the margins of win as possible in view of tho team being limited to four.

Discussing the Australian return visit, Mr. Kirk said that there was a difference of opinion between somo of the States as to the best way of deciding tho selection of the team to come over, the difficulty being in arranging for a representation of all the States if it were decided to play off the trials in Now Zealand. Now South Wales was confident that it would be represented in any case, but Victoria waß not so certain. He did not consider that the latter was likely to allow the Cup to go by default, however, and thought it likely that Victoria would be represented. Ho had never contemplated New Zealand attacking Australian golf as a whole, becauso he thought it would have been an impertinence. Ho did not think that the best of the Australian players, Russoll and : Whitton, had held as truly to form as had the New Zealanders.

Touching on the probable date of the next contest, Mr. Kirk said that first impressions had been that January would suit tho Australians better, but, after talking it over with men from the different States, he now thought that Easter would be preferable, as many more would be able to got away. If the visitors, including the social visitors, would make a tour of the more interesting northern courses prior to the Easter tournament at Heretaunga, participate in that, and then play the Cup after the Herotaunga fixture, that now seemed to be the most suitable time and place to fit in with an existing New Zealand fixture. Mr. A. D. S. Duncan, who also returned from Sydney to-day, was delighted with the success of the team in the Cup contest. {£ ". The Victorian team," he said, with the exception of one man, was the best that could have been picked, and we did well to beat it. The standard of New Zealand golf is good enough to give us a good chance every year against the Australian States individually, but a picked New Zealand team would not have the same chance against a team picked from the best of all Australia! " Mr. Duncan regards New Zealand's win m the Cup an rather better than it appeared, because he considers that -Boss s match should have ended at the eighteenth, in a draw, which would have given New Zealand a 4J to liwin, and not, as was cabled, after Ross's defeat at the twentieth, a 4' to 2 win.