GOLF.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 24 July 1915, Page 3

GOLF.

The execrable weather experienced of late put the Waverley trip out of the question, and has made practice on cue jinks impossible. The match with Stratford has been fixed., for Wednesday next. Auckland Club have decided that all entry fees for competitions will be handed to the Patriotic Fund. Wanganui and Manawatu have abandoned tlieir tournaments this year owing to the war.- Maiugakiekie (Auckland) have decided to abandon their championship this year. I Dr H. D. Gillies, who has given his '. services to tlie Allies and ha's been ; appointed Surgeon-in-Chief to the Uel- j gian held Hospital situated near 1< urnes, is one of the best known amateur goiters, and ronnerly rowed for Cambridge. , A story is told in a club in the 1 south-east of London of a man who ! entered the smoking-room one day with the frown of a life-time upon his".countenance. "I wish the caddies at this club would let you have your own way," he remarked aggressively, as he ordered a .soothing drink. " "Why., what's the matter r" somebody asked him. He consumed his allaying mixture in a* feverish gulp. "Veil," he replied, "I had my record as good as beaten when I was coming to the lasthole. I wanted to take my brassie to reach the green, and the*confounded caddie insisted that 1 should play short of the bunker with an .iron. I gave in to him-—sillily—and of course lost a stroke." "And what did you dor"' everybody enquired of Jiim breathlessly. His reply came in an aggrieved tone: il109." That is the galvanising power of golf; the lowly in playing ability as well as the highly endowed could ask for nothing more than the power to accomplish that which personally is unprecedented. It is as great a source ot satisfaction for the confirmed duffer to go round in 99 if previously he has never done better than 100 as it is for the champion to reduce his record for the green from 70 to 09.