GOLFER'S QUAINT WILL.
ASHES SPREAD ON LINKS. AN OFFENDING TREE. The. oldest member of Wafi'rons Golf Club, Surbiton, Mr. T. F. Halliburton, who" has died'at tho ago of 78 years, has left a will which is a masterpiece of whimsical humour. Ho asks that his ashes should be scattered under a beech tree near the eighteenth hole of tho course, a tree which he used to strike with complete accuracy and irritating monotony every time he went round. "The ashes-will be spread," said the club' secretary, " under the beech trco which ' was Mr. Halliburton's lifelong enemy:"
There is n touch of pure Barrio about a man who decrees that his ashes should lie at the fool of a beech tree which had shattered his hopes of success for half a lifetime.-
" lie was not a humorous man. and ■you could not say lie was a great golfer," said Mrs. Procloiy a stewardess of the .club. " He liked a round with his friends. and ho really enjoyed his little .grumble now und again." . . The tree will be called " Halliburton's tree" and every time a ball (lies skimming off. the. fairway plnyers will think of the supreme instance of a golfer's " beau geste."'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20514, 15 March 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)
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