POT POURRI OF SPORT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 112, 24 April 1936, Page 12

POT POURRI OF SPORT

Unique Coif Feat. A feat that will make every gullet envious was accomplished recently by J. G. Sherlock, the Aldeburgh goli professional in Suffolk, England. Alter starting at the 10th, he holed in one at the 17tb a difficult short hole with the hole cut on the other side of an intervening bunker. Tho shot was played with a No. 6 iron. Five holes later, nt the fourth, he once again holed in one, this time playing a half-shot with a No. 3 iron. “It is ail awkward hole,” said a friend who was playing in the match, "that tempts one to play well away from the pin for safety; it is a kidney-shaped affair with tho hole usually rather ’round the corner. 1 ” The nearest parallel that is recalled io Sherlock’s feat, is Eric Fiddian's effort in the lilial of the 1933 Irish amateur championship against Jack McLean, when he holed his tee shot once in each round. * * * Perry on Crawford. In tho course of an interview with the representative of an English lawn tennis production, Fred J. Perry is repotted to have said: Crawford is one of the most difficult men in the world to beat. You never know where his shots are going, he masks them so well. If. when he returned to Australia, he had rested from tennis for six months, he would still be in the running lor top ranking. As it is, 1 can imagine that the papers over there are playing up Quist just now. And when vou read for 30) days in the year that you are not as good as you were, believe me it doesn’t help. * * * Good Idea Breaks Down. There has been comment that golfing tournaments by clubs do uot pay. The prizes cost as much as the entrance fees, and a scheme will be tried out Io have the members give the trophies. A hanker to give a trophy of an overdraft; Um sharebroker, one of free transfer of shares; the doctor, one of tree advice, and so on, says a southern writer. The idea has been tried. At one tournament the prize for the winner was given hv a lawyer, and it was: Free divorce. The story is a sad one. The winner had only been married a few weeks—quite happily married, too —but he was a Scotchman.