GOLF HAVOC

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23400, 17 July 1939, Page 10

GOLF HAVOC

THE CAMBRIDGE LINKS CHAOS IN CLUBHOUSE WIDESPREAD DAMAGE DEMENTED MAN'S ACT [JJY TELEGRAPH —OWN CORRESPONDENT] CAMBRIDGE,' Sunday Throwing all the furniture he could move through the plate-glass windows, an intruder who entered the clubhouse of the Cambridge Golf Club at Karapiro on Friday night left a scene of utter chaos and destruction behind him. A man in bare feet was later found leaving the course and was arrested. After spending the night in the cells at Cambridge he was medically examined yesterday and certified insane, being sent to a mental hospital. Sounds of crashing glass and heavy thuds coming from inside the clubhouse awoke near by householders at about 11 p.m. on Friday. The police were immediately informed and the arrest followed their arrival at tho course, which is about six miles from Cambridge. Valuable Windows Smashed Inside the clubhouse was a trail of damage which will put the club to considerable expense. The building was extensively enlarged only this year, aJI the work being done by members, and much of what was then accomplished has now been destroyed. A prominent feature of the building was the large number of plate-glass windows which had been built in to give a full view of the links. Five of these windows, two of them measuring about sft. by 3ft., were smashed, gaping holes marking the passage of the heavy missiles which had been hurled through them. Chairs Broken in Pieces Heavy wooden chairs had been broken into pieces and other furniture had been hurled to the floor and damaged. Some of the chairs were found outside. The clock had been thrown after the chairs and the visitors' book followed it. About the only fittings left intact were the crockery cupboards and their contents. Nor had the intruder confined his attention to the clubhouse. Tee-boxes at the different greens were smashed and even the' club's heavy sign near the third tee was damaged. It seemed as if an iron bar had been used to batter it down. The man who was arrested and taken to Cambridge by Constable C. H. Maisey was a stranger to the district.