GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23732, 12 August 1940, Page 3

GENERAL SPORTS NEWS

riavinar in a house match at the Titirangi Golf Club's links, H. M. RosjerSOfl did the 1-ith hole, a distance of I<D yards, in one. ' i- . ' Tho representative attendance of sportsmen at the funeral of the late Mr. E. . Griffith* on Saturday afternoon was evidence of the wido popularity he enjoyed. The pall-bearers were Messrs P. Harrison .(representing the Xcw Zealand Lawn Tennis Association), b. A. Cleat (president of tho Auckland Lawn Tennis Association),. S. Lamb and D. G. Macfarlane (.Auckland Lawn- ienms Association), W. S. Spence, jun. (president of the Kemuera Lawn Tennis Club), and H. D. Brinsdcn. Tho last-named, together with E. L Bartleet and N. G. Sturt, former iMew Zealand and Auckland tennis champions, who were arnonsr tha mourners, was associated with the late Mr. Griffiths in various tournament successes. Practically every- tennis club in Auckland was represented at the funeral and floral tributes came from distant centres. Tho secretary of the isew* Zealand Crolf Council writes: —I have read, in your issue of August 2, a report,of the showing of some golf films by a representative of this association on tho previous evening. Ihe report appears to me to bo quite unnecessarily critical; the statement that the ,f from an instructional point, of view, w 1 "® less, is the opposite of the view exn«s by well-known professionals. As tho American film chosen, severe restricfions nro operating with regard to rcmitfing Britain, ami golfing .films were not Mnndcrea sufficiently essential to Zealand sterling. Tho location otjome for money in Amcnc.i _ available (o ; the shipment of Jn^-irlmit are not „ s there, and, while and r,fSi»n'S „ b W™«b» tu. of our clubs. . "