A golfing story which had been told him by the Prince of Wales was related by Sir John Simon in opening new club premises recently. The story cpncerned the presence at a dinner in America of a player who took no soup, no intoxicants —even in the United States —and no fatty foods. The hostess noticed these things, and said to him, “ Do you never do anything you ought not to do?” “ Yes,” gravely remarked the guest, “ I am sometimes short with my long putts.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22133, 11 December 1933, Page 10
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85Page 10 Advertisements Column 3 Otago Daily Times, Issue 22133, 11 December 1933, Page 10
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