L.G.U. FOURSOMES

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 100, 30 April 1938, Page 23

L.G.U. FOURSOMES

WELLINGTON PLAYERS WIN

• {By Telegraph—Press Association.) PALMERSTON N., April 29. In the final of the New Zealand Ladies' Golf Union's autumn foursomes Miss H. Griffen (Miramar) and Mrs. Morikman • (Hutt) beat Mrs. Martin and Miss Plaice (Wairarapa), 2 and 1.

famous club is not a fluke or. an accident—has taught Continental countries | so much of the art and craft of scientific football that our own players mar- ] vel at the accuracy of the field work of the Czechs, the Austrians, the Hungarians, and the Germans. , Many of them are men of high intelligence, who can talk and talk well of the game's tactics and strategy. THOSE MISSED GOALS. It is the craze for speed that is taking away so much that was delightful in English football, and substituting for it an entertainment that relies for its main ingredients on physical force and haphazard, if spectacular, goals. Is there any reason why a first-class professional footballer should miss a space 'of 192 square feet with a .ball placed on' a mark only 12 yards away, and with np physical interference from anyone? The thing seems incredible put that way, but one player out of three puts the ball wide of the goal from the penalty spot. Surely several lessons in how-to kick a dead ball accurately would help? The fact is players of immature age are pitchforked into a side; they persist in their faults because there is not time —or someone competent—to eradicate them; and after a few weeks this promising material is thrown on the scrap-heap. The day cannot be far distant when

themselves available as members of the Wellington Referees' Association, whose secretary's address is Box 691, Wellington. ' Potential referees fall into two main classes, those who have retired from active playing (and these owe' a duty to the game), and those who have not the required skill to make it worth their while playing, but have -the physical and mental qualities that equip them for refereeing.