GOLF.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19351, 11 December 1924, Page 5

GOLF.

By Divot.

If. Brasch, who won tho monthly medal competition at Bahnacowon on Saturday last, joined tho membership of the Hole-in-One Club by holing out the short fourth with hia teo shot. He did the round in an admirable 79, which seems to have been established as “tho main ” in the past few weeks, for R. G. Scott, who load the host score in tho first round of the competition for the Bruntsfield Medal, went round then in 79, .and on the following Saturday J. R. Callender accomplished 79, which was tho best performance, in the second round of that competition. Two holes were lost recently in an unusual manner in competition matches at Wellington. A. Duncan was the victim in each case. Playing against his nephew, J. Duncan, in the final for the Miramar Championship, ho was within easy approaching distance of the eighteenth hole after two good shots. J. Duncan had found the ditch with his second, and elected to pick out on a penalty, but his fourth was still short. Playing his next he hit the pin, and the ball fell in. The trouble for A. Duncan was that hia caddy was holding tho pin, and ho had only one thing to do, and that was to give up the hole. On the other occasion, playing against H. R. 11. Balneavis, Duncan was in as good a position as one could hope for in a bunker near the green. The caddy was careless in handing him a club, dropped it, and tho club hit tho ball. Duncan picked it up v “BafTy,” who records these incidents in the Evening Post, suggests that a caddy should be taught something about his duties before being allowed to collect fees for caddying, and that a player should ascertain before starting out whether his caddy knows anything or not of tho game. It is probable, however, that in Wellington, as elsewhere in Now Zealand, there is a very distinct shortage of caddies and that a player considers himself fortunate in securing the services of one at all. The greenkcepcr, or whoever the caddy master may be, is presumed to bo responsible for teaching a caddy his duties, and in theory a caddy should be conversant with bis duties, oven to the extent of a knowledge of tho rules that is not possessed by a good many players, before he is authorised or licensed to receive fees, but where are tho caddies who will present themselves for instruction? It comes to this that a player who engages the regular services of one particular caddy, as A. Duncan does, must; himself undertake the task of instructing the boy in what he must and what he must not do.

_The last of the club championships in New Zealand was decided for this year when the Miramar competition was concluded a few days ago. The New Zealand Golf Annual contained the names of the champions of clubs affiliated to the Golf Council as far as was possible up to the date of the issue of that publication. I am now in a position to supplement that list with the names of the champions of the affiliated clubs that have more recently completed their programmes of tournament events and also with the names of the champions of a number of unaffiliated clubs. The championship list for New Zealand for the season, as far as. I have been able to compile it. is as fellows: Middlemore—R. D. Wright. Maungakiekie—B. M. George. Otahuhu—L. Croxfion. AVaitemata—F. Warren. Pukekohe—W. G. Brosnahan. Te Aroha—W. Wynn. AVaihi—G. R. Cullen. Cambridge—A. H. Nicoll. . Hamilton—N. Bell. ■ Avondale—J. Millard. Rotorua—G. Tuck. Pupuke—A. A?. Clark. Morrinsville—W. R. St. George. Te Awamutu—A. Fleming. Papakuia—R. G. Prangley. Helensville—H. Fenner. Glendowie (Auckland) —P. Trice. Te Kniti—W. B. Fisher. Otorohanga—Dr Nicholson. Taumarunui—J. Soler. Tauranga—G. Pott. Poverty Bay—D. M. Dodgslrun. Opotiki—H. Tidmarch. Napier—H. E. Troutbeck. Tokoraatu Bay—D. R. Pordham. Waipawa—J. Blundell. Dannevirke —H. A. Black. Takapau—S. Ropata. Marton—G. Sevan. AVanganui—F. S. Parkes. Snringvale (Wanganui)—J. Goss, jun. Waverley-M?". Muir. Eltham—L. Quin. Stratford—J. S. Lyons. Patca—H. A. Findlay. New Plymouth—F. Quin. Hawera—W. O’Oallaghan. Raotihi AVilson. Fcilding—G. Saunders. Palmerston North—A. E. Ekstcdt. Masterton—T. H. Horton. Greytown—AA f . J. Feast. AVairarapa—D. C. Collins. Martinborough—E. Nicolaus. Heretaunga—A. D. S. Duncan. Hutt—J. L, Black. Miramar —A- D. S. Duncan. Ranui—N. P. Dunlop. Karori—Q. Berry. Lyttelton—F. Knights. Christchurch—A. L. Cropp. Hagley—H. F. Penlington. Harewood—C. R. J. Ward. Richmond Hill—A. Rattray. , Kaiapoi—G. Templeton. Diamond Harbour—N. Thompson. MetKvon—D. M. Christie. Ambcrley—L. Campbell. Ashburton—H. A. Boddington. Hororata —H. Nettleton. Rangiora—W. C. Prosser. Timaru —B. V. AATight. AVaimate—D. Fulton. North Otago—D. Reid. Otago—Dr K. Ross. St. Clair-C. B. AVlght Balclutha—-G-. Clark Gore—A. Hawke. Wyndham Henderson. Invercargill—C. A. Masters. Queen’s Park (Invercargill)—l. Carr. Riverton—Dr Kingston. • Wakatipu—F. Stoop. , AA r anaka—J. Perrow. Cromwell—E. Jolly. Roxburgh—C. Redgrave. AVestport—A. G. Simc. Greymouth—W. Meldrum. Hokitika—J. A. Chesney.

are nearly 300,000 more horses in America than there were 20 years ago, and that the number of mules had increased by 2.370.000 during the same period, notwithstanding the fact that during the Great War there were shipped abroiid more than 950.000 horses and 545,000 mules. The Dunedin Jockey Club and the Forbury Park Trotting Club hold a conference on Monday to consider the question of putting on an attractive programme during the big Exhibition. Both clubs will endeavour to put on specially attractive programmes in order to make their branches of sport by no means the least attractive feature amongst what is hoped to bo a unique effort to boost the sporting, social, and commercial side of the usual attractions connected with such world-wide interests. Plnjoyment in some shape or form is a big factor in the success of any large concentration of business such as is provided by an exhibiThose who brought the inquiry at Feeding into the running of Merit had a weak case and it is good to know that no drastic action was taken, says the Wellington writer “Carbine.” At the same time it is difficult for anyone who saw the race to imagine what anyone saw in the running of the mare that called for a prolonged inquiry. The position is that publicity has been given the fact that S. J. Reid, the trainer of Merit, and T. Page, the rider, have been carpeted and reprimanded, but no official statement has been made as to what they were accused of or questioned about. Surely these particulars should have lieen issued along with those given out. Logan Chief is handicapped at 4.30 in the Auckland Trotting Cup. Hq was handicapped at 4.27 when he ran m the Victoria: Handicap at Forbury Park last season, when he finished third to Realm and Man-o'-war. In that race he was conceding Realm 12yds, so that in the Auckland Trotting Cup he moots Realm on no less than 72yds bettor terms. Logan Chief went ft mile in 2.4 2-5 without being chased out when he ran third to Acron and Realm in the Free-for-All at Addington, and ho should bo hard to beat, in the Auckland Trotting Cup. Some seem to doubt his staying powers, but he has won over two miles in heavy going, and the fact suggests that he would get the same journey well with favourable track conditions to help him. .