GOLF.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15664, 18 July 1914, Page 5

GOLF.

MAUNGAKIEKIE CHAMPIONSHIP WEEK. The ladies of tho Maungakiekio Golf Club will hold a championship week from July. 20 to 24. The programme is as follows :— Monday: Afternoon, medal handicap in conjunction with qualifying round of championship, first eight to qualify. Tuesday: Morning, first round of championship; afternoon, foursomes. Wednesday: Morning, second round of championship; afternoon, bogey handicap. Thursday: Afternoon, driving approaching and putting competition, post entry. Friday; Afternoon, final of championship. It is hoped that the mon members of the club will arrange to play as little as possible on these days. Tho draw for tho various events is as follows :— Medal Handicap: Miss Gorrio plays Miss Gordon; Miss Scott plays Miss Macklow ; Miss Young plays Miss Bayly ; Miss Macfarlano plays Mrs. D. Hay; Miss Metcalfe play Miss Ridings ; Miss Crowther plays Mrs. Owen ; Mrs. Ball plays Miss Steele; Miss N. MacCormick plays Miss K. MacCormick; Miss B. Morris plays Miss B. Young; Mrs. Hardy plays Miss Morton Mrs. Lynch plays Miss Souter; Miss D. Cooke plays Mrs. Morris; Mrs. Ridincs plays Miss Martin. Mrs. Briffault a bye.

Foursomes: Mrs. Owen and- Mrs. Morris play Mrs. Briffault and Miss Ridings; Mrs. Ball and Miss Morton play Misses Soutor and K. Souter; Misses N. MacCorrick and Steele play Misses Young and Macfarlano; Misses B. Young and M. Niccol nlay Misses Bayly and Scott; Misses Morris and CooKe play Mrs. Hardy and Mrs. Ridings; Misses Martin and K. MacCormick play Misses Macklow and Crowther; Miss Gordon and Mrs. Lynch play Misses MacCormick and Metcalfe. Bogey Handicap Match: Miss Bayly plays Miss N. MacCormick ; Miss Macklow plays Miss Gordon; Miss Macfarlane plays Miss Young; Miss Steele plays Miss Crowther; Mrs. Ball plays Miss K. MacCormick; Mrs. Owen plays Mrs. Morris; Miss Scott plays Miss Ridings; Miss Metcalfe plavs Mrs. Lynch ; Miss Morton plays Mrs. Hardy; Miss M. MacCormick plays Mrs. Ridings; Miss Milno plays Miss B. Young; Miss Morris plays Miss Burgess. WAITEMATA V. MAUNGAKIEKIE. A match will bo played between A and B teams from tho Waitemata and Maungakiekio Golf Clubs to-day. The A teams will play at Devon port and the B teams at One-tree Hill. Owing to several of the players originally selected not being available the teams to play to-day have been altered as follows; Waitemata players are mentioned first: —

A Team, at Devonport : A. W. Clouston v. R. O. Gardner; A. M. Howden v. N. P. Green; W. F.. Warren v, JR. George; P. Balgamie v. E. Hickson; A. 1. Johns v. J. Kempthorne; W. E. Bush v. N. Morpeth; 1). Jefferies v. N. Chennells; A. E. Hobbs v. A. W. Short; B. Macky v. G. L. Taylor; F. S. Shu-riffs v. H. G. Hair.

B Team, at One-tree Hill: J. A. Kallender v. F. C. Gleeson; R. Rainger v. Q. D. Thacker; A. E. Bartleman v. D. G. Macfarlane ; D. Harvey v. G. C. Morris ; H. W. Simmonds v. C. E. Aiderton; A. M. Pickford v. H. W. Cooko; A. W. Clarke v. J. M. Saunders; A. H. Blackburne v. M. E. Ward; A. W. Chancy v. D. F. Reid; J. Macky v. P. Morris.

WAITEMATA LADIES' CLUB.

The draw for the senior championship of the Waitemata Ladies' Golf Club is as follows: Miss Mackay plays Mrs. Prime;' Mrs. Bayloy plays Miss Goudic; Mrs. Atkinon plays Miss Duder; Miss Bray plays Miss Harvey. Miss Gudgeon, Mrs. Alison, Mrs. O'Donnell, and Miss Newell have byes. The draw for the junior championship is as follows:—Miss Harrison plays Mrs. Sutherland ; Miss Jennings plays Miss Bennett: Mrs. Stringer plays Cooper; Miss Marks plays Mrs. Rodger. Miss Caldwell has a bye. The first round must bo played by July

CAMBRIDGE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS Tho results of the Cambridge Golf Club's championship matches to date aro as follow:— LADIES' MATCHES. A Grade.—2nd Round : Miss F. Cox beat Mrs. Hunter; Miss B. Taylor beat Mrs. Nicoll : Miss Ferguson beat Mrs. Frasor; Mrs. Nixon beat Miss C. Willis. B Grade.—2nd Round : Miss Wells beat Miss Cox; Miss K. Hally beat Miss Banks; Mrs. Souter beat Mrs. Nelson; Miss Caldwell beat Mrs. Caldwell. Semi-final: Miss K. Hally beat' Miss Wells: Miss Caldwell beat Mrs. Souter. Miss Hally and Miss Caldwell will meet in tho final. MEN'S MATCHES. B Grade.—Semi-final: B. S. Conner beat J. B. MacKie ; A. Willis beat R. Ferguson. Couper and Willis will meet in the final to-day. LADIES' COMPETITION. CORONATION MEDAL. [»» telecxaph.— ASSOCIATION.] Palmerston North. Fridav. The tie between Miss Petrie, of Greymouth, and Miss Bayley, of Maungakiekio, for the Coronation medal was played off on Thursday and resulted in a win for Mies Petrie, who played on tho Hokitika links and beat par by throe strokes, NOTES AND COMMENTS.

The Hobart Golf Company's links have been sold privately for £25,000. The property is at Sandy Bay, and comprises 109 acres. The company entered into negotiations with the municipality of Queenborough, formerly ft suburb of Hobart, for the sale of the links for £20,000, with a proviso that golfers should have the right to use the finks for 15 years on certain conditions. When the Queenborough municipality became part of the City of Hobart, an offer to sell the links for £25,000 was made to the Hobart Council, and it was made known that private purchasers were prepared to pay that sum for the property. The council considered the amount too high, and offered £20,000, which was refused. The council next offered to split tho difference, and made an offer of £22,500, subject to ratification by a poll of the ratepayers, and to sanction being given by Parliament, but the company sold it privately for £25,000. The popularity of golf is evidenced by the fact that the Miramar Club has now a roll of nearly 400 playing members and a fair number of honorary members. It is doubtful if there are many other clubs in the Dominion with such a large number of playing members. As the tenure of the links at Miramar is terminable at any time, the committee of the club has formulated a scheme for the purchase of about 103 acres of tho Crawford estate, near tho city boundary. The area includes practically the whole of the land on which the first 13 holes aro now played, with the exception of about two chains of frontage; also an area of 30 acres of flat land to the south and east of tho present links, and about three acres fronting the tramline, near the city boundary. The committee is satisfied that a first-class fu.l-length course can be laid out on this land, at a moderate expenditure. The coarse would comprise 12 of the present holes, and six new ones, and would bo one of the best and longest in New Zealand. A clubhouse' built on modern lines forms part of the scheme that the committee will shortly place before the members. If the purchase of the land is effected, golf could be played at Miramar throughout the whole year, instead of being confined to the winter months, as at present.