GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 75, 29 March 1930, Page 22

GOLF

*v "CNiMNar" THE WALKER CUP

EASTER TOURNEYS

THE AUSTRALIANS

The Australians will probably have arrived when these notes appear. Their

teams remain the same, with the exoep

tion that T. S. Boss replaces Edgar. The New Zealand team is reported to be playing well jp to form. HortOn and Eoss have not been getting much practice until recently, but are shaping well. British Walker Cup Team.

The following players were selected

by the Boyal and Ancient Club as those i'rom whom the team to meet America was to be chosen:—Cyril Tolley (Eng-

iand), Eoger Wethered (England), Si:

Ernest Holdorness (England), Major Charles Hezlot (Ireland), Dr. W. Tweeddo. (England), 1. A. Torranee (Scotland), W. Sutton (England), J. A. Stout (England), b. L. M'Kiulay (Scotland), Rex Hartley (England), J. Nelson Smith (Scotland), T. A. Bourn (.England), W. Tulloch (Scotland), and

W. L. Hope (Scotland)

The first six players have figured in previous Walker Cup matches, but it is by no means certain that Dr. Tweddell,

who captained the British team which met with disaster in the last match, at Chicago, two years ago, \yill play on this occasion.

.Mr. Tolloy, who is in New York on an extended business trip, intends leaving for England on 30th April, along with Mr. "Bobby" Jones and the American team. After the Walker Cup match and the British championships at St. Andrews and Hoylake, Mr. Tolley will return to America, where he contemplates competing in the United States championships at Interlachen, Minnesota, and Merion, Philadelphia, respectively. This will be the first occasion on which Mr. Tolley has played in the American Open, though he has several times competed in tho Amateur;

Of the new selections Mr. Rex Hartley is regarded as almost a certainty for the team in its final state. Mr. Hartley, who is 25 years of ago, is the younger of two brothers, who, in partnership, have thrice won the London .Foursomes. He was captain of Cambridge forr years ago. Besides other noteworthy successes Mr. Hartley last year won the King William IV. medal at St. Andrews with the magnificent score of 72, equalling the Boyal and Ancient Club'c record held jointly by Mr. Tolley and Mr. Wethered. At Sandwich Mr. Hartley played for England against Scotland, and reached the semi-final of tho championship, being beaten by Mr. Tolley after a great fight by one hole.

Two new and interesting personalities, so far as Walker Cup inatchos are co jerned, aro Mr. Sutton and Mr. J. Smith. They_ are both artisan golfers, Mr. Sutton being a railway employee in Cheshire and Mr. Smith a joiner in the little town of Earlsferry, on the east coast of Scotland. Mr. Sutton is the reigning English champion, defeating Mr. Tolley in the semi-final played in a snowstorm. Mr. Sutton may not be a captivating player to watch, but he is a plucky little fellow who hangs on to a match with great determination. He is a golfer likely to worry a player of the type of Dr. Willing, who by leaving nothing to chance takes an inordinate time to complete a round.

Mr. Smith, a dour fighter of th.o true Scottish type, sprung iuto prominence in the championship at Sandwich by reason of his sensational defeat of Mr., John E. Dawson, a young American, at the ninteenth after . being 3 down with threo holes to play. Of Mr. Smith, who was himself defeated in the final by Mr.■ Tolle'y, it may be said that ho was directly responsible for preventing tho possibility of the championship going to America. Mr. Stout, a dental surgeon, of Bridlington, Yorks, was invited to join the last team, but was unable to make tho journey to America. Ho is a big, jolly man, who crashes tho ball enormous distances. Mr. Stout is a golfer who knows no fear. Mr. Sam M'Kinlay, of Glasgow, who is 22 years of age, is one of the . new Scottish players who got his chance in last year's international match and acquitted Mmsel f with distinction, winning both his single and foursome. He is a stylish player, who is extremely effective with the iron clubs. Mr. Bourn owes his selection to a signal success in the recent Oxford and Cambridge Society's tournament fox the President's Putter, when he defeated Sir Ernest Holderness in-the final.. -Those who

have been dropped are Mr. Bonald Hardinan, of Lanes; Mr. John Beck, Captain G. N. C. Martin, and Dr. A. B. MaeCallum.

The United States team is as follows: "Bobby" Jones (captain) (Atlanta), Harrison B. Johnston (St. Paul), Francis Ouimet (Boston), George yon Elm (Detroit), Dr. C. F. willing (Portland), Jess Sweetser (New York), Donald. K. Moe (Portland), and George Voigt (New York). Reserves: E. Mackenzie (Washington) and B. McCarthy, iun. (New York).

Easter Tournaments.

Attractions for the long handicap man, who is, after all, the backbone of golf as a pastime, are not lacking from a flsturo always popular with Wellington golfers at Easter, the Manawatu Golf Club's annual tournament, which wil) be held from 19th to 22nd April. For the long handicap players there is tho Consolation Handicap. This event, which originated with tho Manawatu Club, has beon copied in various forms by other clubs with success. Entries closo on Tuesday at Palmorston North. There will bo a largo attendaneo, no doubt, also at tho. Wellington Golf Olub's tourney at Herctaunga at Easter. Titahi Club.

Tho Titahi Club was to have held its opening to-day, but tho event has been postponed until Saturday nest.

Foundations of Your Game.

Every golfer must tavo a foundation of sorts upon which to build his style, because, after mouths or years of play, there comes the time when he is "oft" his gamo" for reasons he cannot understand. Unless he has a standard of his own to _go back to and start from, ho has nothing upon which to begin his cure. Some of the most promising men who start off with a few lessons and a "natural" stylo, are tho hardest to correct when they go to the professional for advice, because their faultß are not so easily recognised. If ho begins on a foundation of firmly fixed principles, devoid of peculiarities, and irregularities, the golfer can at any time make a proper or necessary addition of some principle. But suppose one begins without having the essentials or fundamentals as a basis, then tho instructor has no solid foundation to build on or with, so he is forced to destroy what has been poorly built and replace it.