GOLF.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 10656, 9 July 1897, Page 3

GOLF.

Writing of the visit to Napier of the Poverty Buy golfers, a writer In the Gisborne Herald says :— " Nona of the ■ grounds aeem quite as difficult an tbe Glßboroe links, as lower scores were made - on eaoh than the record here. Tbe visitors seemed just better man for mau than the teams they met, bat there Is bo little in It, that a very slight Improvement - on the part of the Napier men might ] i averse tbe reenlt. There are four or five good men down there, bnt they do not i earn to praotlse as mnoh as the Glsboroe men. With their choice of links they mnat be hard to please if they cannot be c suited. Gisborno players pnt np good . reoords on eaoh gxocnd. The writer has \ abstained purposely from mentioning c special names or from dwelling od the In- { numerable kindnesses and attentions the J players received. Pleasanter men to play \ with could nob be found, and the thanks of the vltitora are due to tbe gentlemen who made arrangements for the various 3 matches, and to the ladles who so ■ ably looked after the refreshment ' department, especially Mrs (tbe temptation to fill In the blank ie strong, bnt mast be restated). It was ' a most onccoseful trip, and will pro- . bably beoome aD annual oae, It Is possible that some Napier men may be here in August. Now that the players have \ settled down again to ordinary routine, t their thonghts go back to that pleasant week, when In the words of a favored chorna of theirs It was goufln all the day Daln na, work at a' Running about wl' a bag o' sticks After a - co bit ba'. . Mleeirg 1b awfa 1 ekltes, Shouting out a fare, It's real'y astounding to Bee awa' bounding 1 That wee bit gotty ba'. t