MIRAMAR TRESPASSERS

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 51, 1 March 1934, Page 18

MIRAMAR TRESPASSERS

Miramar golf course is surrounded, as one member put it at the annual meeting on Tuesday, evening, with a district of large families, and for years I it^has been a difficult question for the club to keep the. young fry off the links. There is the point, not raised at the annual meeting, moreover, that some day a fierco hook or slice will land'a ball not upon the part of the body usually reserved for eastigation, but upon the temple, or thin bone just behind the ear, of one of the children who play about the fairways so indiscriminately,, and then the thing will have to be considered. Though the children are perhaps the most important persons to keep off the links, in view of tho damage that they may suffer by stray.....balls, it is not they who form (ho most pressing problem for the Miramar golf authorities. Youths who play chip shots off the greens are by no means as uncommon as might-be sup^ ppfed, and these are not caddies, but youngsters who, living with golf under their noses, as it were, become obsessed with the urge to do these things. The club captain told of an unavailing 200 yards sprint to capture a girl in beach p\jamas, who was taking divots off the eleventh green with a mashic. During the discussion all possible forms of preventing such troubles were mentioned.'such as mounted policemen, [who were--said to do signal servico on | links in other parts of tho world, and .incidentally to save quite a ponderable sum towards income taxation by rendering unnecessary the erection of I tall stone walls, etc., but thp brightest suggestion was to adopt the practice on

one links, which shall be nameless. There exactly the same troubles had become insupportable, until one of the members conceived the brilliant idea of allowing the caddies the use of the course at seemly times, with the proviso that they should keep everyone else off. It was said to work very well. Of course, prosecutions were mentioned; and it'was stated' that this means had proved most efficacious, particularly in regard to the stolen ball trouble, at Berhampore, but the evident feeling of Miramar members was that they did not wish to be. harsh. Nothing was said about boy-proof fencing.