GOLFING MEMORIES

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20570, 2 June 1941, Page 10

GOLFING MEMORIES

A fi-v of us sat on tlio verandah of tlio :liibliouS(> at a well-known club, says the golf writer of the Melbouvns Sporting '.■lobe. it was near sunset—the end of a beautiful autumn day. • The silence was broken by one of the oldest members. "You know,” he said, "1 like to sit out, here and let my thoughts wander, j look out across these fairways and conjure up visions of our halycon golf days. 1' see the championships, excited crowds following Harry Williams and dim Perrier. 1 think of hto first time we saw Hagen here, and Helen Hicks and Gene Sarazen and the British amateurs. Those days seem so fatway now.’ "I often have those thoughts, ‘oo,” saitl another member, who has travelled it good deal, “But 1 dwell more upon the games 1 have had in Britain—at St. Ami rows,' Stoke Poges and Sandwich—ami tint grand people 1 met there. What are those British golfers doing to-day. and what ■no happened to their courses?” Silence fell among us again. “Soneone lias said—Hon Bradman, J think it was—that, it’s a pity •lie Germans did not play cricket/' said the old member. "For my part, I’m gl«,| t | ll|t Hitler does not play golf. I could not bear to have such a grand game so desecrated,” No one dissented. .