To Play for Her ‘County’ At Age of 79

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 157, 6 July 1936, Page 2

To Play for Her ‘County’ At Age of 79

LONLON, April 21. Too old at thirty—or forty—of fifty ? Never! You moderns who complain that sport is for the younger generation have not met Mrs John Preston, of Braham -gardens, London. Mrs Preston is 79 to-day- —and she has been chosen to play croquet for Ireland —lreland ranks as a county in the intercounty championship at llurliugkam next month. And croquet can be more exciting and strenuous than Miss 193 G would imagine—especially a week’s play. But Mrs Preston is not only a croquet player; she is a golfer, too. Last month she played golf at Rauelagh in. the mothers and daughters tournament. Mrs Preston and her daughter, Mrs. Graham Jones, Dorset golf champion, are a formidable pair on the links. "Golf has always been my mother’s game and she would not dream of dropping it," Mrs Jones told the Daily Sketch. "If I iooJc alter the long game she can still be relied upon approaching and on the greens.

"She never knows when she is beaten. This is something hko her fortieth appearance in the the Irish croquet team."