CAUSED A SENSATION

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXII, Issue 193, 30 July 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)

CAUSED A SENSATION

SLOAN MOBPETH’B GOLF. With the Australian golf championships and the annual meeting of the A.G.U. near at hand, Sloan Morpeth, honorary secretary of the union, will be prominent for the next few weeks. As an unassuming youngster in New Zealand, before tho war, Morpeth caused rather a sensation. When he came back from the front he won event after event, but then went on the land, where he had the ill-luck that fell to many former soldiers. However, he returned to golf, and won both the open and amateur championships of New Zealand.

He was secretary of a prominent New Zealand golf club, when, in 1929, he visited Melbourne with the Kirk-Win-deyer team. In additon to distinguishing himself in tho match, he won the Victorian amateur title, and was runner up to M. J. Ryan in the 11 national amateur” in Adelaide. His personality impressed Victorians so much that he was offered the position of secretary of the Commonwealth Club, which he accepted.

Morpeth, while brilliant in play, is sometimes of tho “wild” tvpe in shot making. But he is a notably different golfer when he is seriously concentrating on a big event. Few men can get down to the job with tnore determination than he. In such cases, despite the loose golf he plays in unimportant games, he is tho match of anyone in Australia.