"A HAPPY TIME"

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 65, 14 September 1936, Page 10

"A HAPPY TIME"

WOMEN GOLFERS RETURN ; AUSTRALIAN TOUR ] "We have had a very happy time,"1 i said Mrs. M. H. Godby, captain of the r team of New Zealand women golfers r which has been visiting Australia and 1 returned, by the Marama today. "We c are disappointed, of course, at being t unable to bring back the Tasman Cup t with us, but the team did very well in t Australia, and we look forward to winning the cup next year when the a Australians visit us. The hospitality t we were accorded during the tour was wonderful." s "Our players made a good showing," v said Miss O. Kay, who won the Aus- *1 tralian women's championship by de- ? Eeating Mrs. Fullerton-Smith in the ** final* "and although we.did not bring sl back the cup, as we had hoped to do, ?' the experience we gained in Australia j* will be of great benefit to us." The h :ourses in Australia, she said were SI longer and more heavily bunkered "' iian those in this country. n: She herself was not playing well in h ;he early stages of the tournament, but C( mproved later. Miss Horwell and f Wiss Fleming had not been able to *c itrike form at any stage of the tourna- nl nent,. although towards the .end they ihowed signs of their true capabilities. £ Australians, she said, became "all :? vorked up" in championship play. l The standard there was definitely no ligher than that in New Zealand, and °^ vith the experience our players had lamed they should have no difficulty ~ n giving a better account of themelves next year. The outstanding Ausralian competitor was 'Miss Nell Hut- ! on, who was playing in her first cham- \