GOLF

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 63, 16 March 1933, Page 20

GOLF

Mr "Chipomot"

JKIRK-^WINDEYER CUP

MEW ZEALAND TEAM

NOTES '

New South Wales appears to be the only Australian. State' that is at all keen on the continuance of the Kirk•Windeyer- Gup contest, and from what Hector Morrison says, it looks as though there -was a real danger of the . contest lapsing if the present conditions are - maintained. In theory it .should give additional interest to it if all the Australian States compete to see -who should play Xew Zealand, but in .practice it is difficult to" get teams of four players and emergencies from each State* to make the expensive trip across the Tasman, while it generally happens that New South Wales, which could put in "two good teams if neces- ■» sary, obtains the final honour in any case. If the matter were placed'in the hands of the Australian Golf Union, and one Australian team were selected, not necessarily upon. State representation, but upon actual merit, it would no doubt be easier to get men willing to make the trip with the wider choos--mg ground, but the" original conditions would then be broken. "Whether New Zealand would have to face a stronger team if it were selected from the whole of the Commonwealth or not it is hard to say. New South Wales-seems to have the preponderance of good golfers, but the presence of. one or more selected players from other States might result m the formation of a team that New Zealand would find more formidable. The contest seems safe for two years more, at any rate, because an Australian team, or, to be exact, a New South Wales team, to visit New Zealand at Easter is practically assured and New Zealand is nut likely to default m the following contest. After that the financial fairways may have dried up a, bit. The Kirk-Windeyer Cup 19 J% -Sn^V* .Titiran gi °n April 19 and 20, following on the Easter tournaments, which Tipll give team the opportunity of final practice matches. The New Zealand team ml !? e vCh^ en aUast advic<> *'r°m the Black brothers, H. Brinsden, J. P. k'^ H-Horton, Sana Wagg, and B. -M. Silk. If any of -these wH a 7' ,v mafce a serious can in +fi% Austrahan team, but it could fae filled Possibly without the loss of strokes? 1 there are golfers o f nea j ft • •*» standards however, are easier ,to find in the Austrahan. team than the personal freedom or incUnation, to make the trip! cLsph"+? L Dg jD s dro PPinS out "had caused the abandonment of the trip the New Zealand Golf Association w^d no ThP f.- 7?I bf ea E° a^ sed ia-nediatelv. The fact that no such advice has be»n St^" e r? Vlllbe- Playe<l at Titira^

. British Women's Tour. T A* feW Weeks ago- (wri*es "The Post's" London correspondent-under the date of wome n^s V" ™noed certain w?th??hf^ P y/r/ ha- d been aPP""fied *£?«. a« Aof formiri S a team to tour South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand ~»* ? l& of the Ladies< G°" Union ' *f £ finJ. favour amon S tne delegates, of whom, there were 200 present. The ™Z 7*5 i^f by Lady Den »an. After "Tf'f 1 dels ates> representing Surrey, Middlesex, Manchester, and Cheshire, had spoken, it was fairly otm6us that a long -at all to the liking of the meeting, more especially as it was felt that the players! although they would play three mashes a week,c6uld .not possibly stand the, strain. Mrs. lewis-Smith drew 4 harrow- • ™B,, PWture <rf J tl2? tri P8 by sea between Melbourne and Sydney. -"I know the journey well,'' she laid, "and the last time 1 was there J got off the boat at Sydney and took train to Melbourne. If our- players are going to do that trip by eea, then Heaven help them!" 3' ' • Among those who opposed the proposed torn was Mrs. Temple Dobel], of Cheshire, who said: '-My county considers it v is opposed to the interests of British golf to-spend so much money airthe present time on international tours. I'have received a letter from- Mrs. Miller (founder of the Tj.G.U.), in which, she writes: 'I _ do not think this tour is justified a.t.the present time. It is the old story—so nice to-use other people's money.'" In -the end a practically unanimous vote went m favour of curtailins the tour to South Africa only, the oiicinal proposal being referred back to the Executive Council. It was also agreed that a fresh selection of players should be invited to make the trip, and to leave- the Australian and Aew Zealand part of the tour to some future date. Ryder Cup Expenses. 1 A novel method of financing an interna.tional team was that adopted by the_ American Professional Golfeis' Association. To meet the expenses of the Eyder Cup side to play Britain at SouthpoTt on. 26th and 27th June half a million, surplus golf balls from- the season's tournaments are to be sold to produce a'profit of £5000. This sum will cover the cost1 of the trip. • So far the British authorities, have not been compelled to resort to ingenious methods of raising funds. As was the case at Moortown, Leeds, two years agOj it is hopea to obtain about £3000 from gate money at Southpoit to pay the expenses of the team to visit America in 1935, An international -side consists of ten men and the expenses of each player are approximately £300. A Pine Score. ' -. - , Craig Wood, of the Hollywood Club, New Jersey, and a member of the American Eydet Cup team, has won the Pasedena Open Championship, one of the 'big golfing events of California, with the remarkable scpre of 278, representing ten under 4's for the seventy-two holes. The late Douglas Edgar, an Englishman, won the Canadian championship of 1919 -with the same score, but neither achievement is comparable- with that of Sarnzen in •winning the British championship last year with the record total of 283, nor with that of Bobbie Jones's 285 at St. Andrews." There has been an even lower score than that of "Wood, for Eobert Cniickshank, the old Edinburgh golfer, won the open championship of Colorado in 3924 with a- score of 274. In the last rbun<J he accomplished a 64. But- the lowest single -Tound in an event of' first importance was Boomer's 61 in the French international match at' St. Cloud in 1929.

Pather and Son. , Ales. Herd, jun., a son of the old open champion, "Sanay" Herd, who has holed in= one nineteen times, holed a tee shot for.- the aecond time in his career in, dramatic circumstances' at Moor Park, Kiekmansworth. In a match''with an amateur,,to whom Herd ■was conceding five strokes, the players were level with one to play, and at the home hole Herd holed his tee shot-^---156,yards away—to win the hole and match. His opponent, Mr. A. E. Syk'es, had played ,a shot to within holing distance._ "Sandy"' Herd has only to accomplish the feat once more to claim the goldrgolf club promised to him by an American to commemorate his twentieth hole in one.

A terrier lately escaped' from a fox's lair on Moelddu Mountain, Wales, where it had 'been-entombed, for-10 days.