GOLF TEMPERAMENT.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19202, 19 June 1924, Page 5

GOLF TEMPERAMENT.

WORTH A COUPLE OF HOLES. Describing the golf championship match between Miss Cecil Leitch and Miss Wethered at Northwood. which ended in the defeat of Aliss Leitch by the convincing margin of 5 and 3, Mr G. W. Greenwood (in the Daily Telegraph) says lha-t not by word or gesture, not even hv the movement of an eyelid, did Aliss Wethered betray what was passing through her mind. She was as emotionless as a graven image, and it was only when Aliss Leitch gave the sign of surrender on the fifteenth green that Aliss Wethered relaxed. A faint smile flickered across her face as someone—it may have been Aliss Leitch herself—said, quite audibly. “Well. done. Joyce.” To see Aliss Wethered. calm, cool, and amazingly collected, perform before several hundreds of people, one wonders to what extent her priceless temperament; plays in the work of destroying the enemy. A tremendous lot, to be sure, There is nothing so disconcerting nothing so calculated to gel one s nerves on edge as to stalk round a golf course with a foe who absolutely refuses to he jostled or hustled. This is Aliss Wethered; without hurrying and without fuss she attends to the business of despatching the ball, and whether the bitting is for good or ill she displays neither pleasure nor annoyance. I have met only two golfers like her In this respect; one is Air John Ball, and the other is Braid. It is (he perfect golfing temperament, and translated into values it is worth a couple of holes. Did not Aliss Leitch herself marvel at it when they met for the first time at Shcringham four years ago? As Aliss Wethered was putting on the seventeenth green, an express train dashed by with a fearful and disturbing rattle. To Aliss Leitch’s astonishment, her opponent proceeded with tho stroke without a second’s pause, and afterwards completely confounded everybody bv stating that she was totally oblivious lo tho fact that a train had passed. Concentration such as this is so rare a gift that it is hardly surprising Aliss Wethered has swept everything before her in so short a space of time.