Golf Competition

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 145, 22 June 1939, Page 4

Golf Competition

JUNIOR HANDICAP COMPETITION DRAW The draw for the Golf Club’s junior handicap challenge cup, competed for annually, is as follows: L. T. Russell and R. Batchelor, a bye; R. Reynolds v. J. McKinlay, G. L. B. Whillans v. E. G. B. Wicks, R. R. Johnston v. H. G. Wickes, R. Gibbs v. J. 8. Mcßean, W. Barclay v. R. Irwin, J. Penney v. G. Lane, A. Wiley v. Reg. Johnston, V. Baker v. E. W. Norman, N. Robertson v. 8. Campbell, W. G. Butler v. R. Court, G. H. Morgan v. P. Maurice, E. Hutchinson v. W. ,T. Hawkes, R. B. Johnston v. N. K. Chapman, Goodman and E. Hanaray a bye. D. T. Gardner will play the winner of tho JohnstonChapman match. allowed to rest for the next couple of months, until Mr. F. S. Smythc, leader of two Everest Expeditions, raised the subject again with an article in which he minutely described foot-long tracks ho had seen in the Garhwal Himalayas tho previous year at a height of 16,500 feet. He illustrated his description with a whole series of photographs, and held that “a complete and logical explanation” was that the marks had been made by a certain species of bear crossing from one valley to another. “Perambulating Soup-plate” Thereupon a reader who signed himself with a pseudonym produced a photograph of tracks which he said he had followed for a mile in the basin of a high Himalayan glacier. They were circular, 9in. in diameter and 18in. apart, exactly in lino behind one another. Mr. Smytho rejoined that he had expected unpopularity as a “debunker.” “If my suspicions are wellfounded,” he added, “I must retract all my conclusions, for if the snowman can emulate a perambulating soupplate then bear tracks must be small beer to him.” The last word was an echo from a lonely Briton encamped at Gyantse, on the road to Ihasa. He had not seen any footprints, but he had heard “a ghastly yell” at night from a Himalayan pineforest, and his three terrified native servants had not been behindhand with an explanation.