GOLF CONVERT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 18 June 1936, Page 10

GOLF CONVERT

SIR JOHN SIMON PLEASED (By Air Mail—From Our Own Correspondent) LONDON, 14th May. Possibly nothing in his distinguishcareer, which has been strewn with ! honours from his Oxford cays onI wards, has afforded Sir John dbr/m I more real pleasure than his nomir.a- ---| tion as Captain of the R>y d and Ancient Golf Club. Though he played a little fives at school, Sir John was never in the athletic line, and he took I up golf only a few years ago, probably lon the advice of some intelligent : medical adviser. That he is now clown to a handicap of eleven, and has j once won the Parliamentary event, speaks well for his determination. At Walton Heath last week-i ml, v-1 en he was driving off in this year’s Parliamentary handicap, he left the tee i to Warn a serried line of press : hoi tographers that, if he sliced his ball, • their blood would be on their own ' heads. Actually Sir John hit a beauty right down the middle of the pretty, j i His prayer will no doubt be that, when he has to face the ordeal of driving himself in at St. Andrews, he will be able to reproduce that I | “peach.”