STOLE A GOLF BALL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16705, 24 July 1928, Page 7

STOLE A GOLF BALL

A DETERMINED GULL (Special to the Herald.) AUCKLAND, this day. A grey gull of fine physique, audacity and determination stole a golf ball on the Maungakeikie links on Saturday afternoon. The ball, a new one, had been driven by a player in a fourball contest from the first tec. No' sooner had it landed than a gull leisurely dropped down and in a most matter of fact manner attempted to pick up the ball. He seemed to have difficulty in opening his beak wide enough for he dropped it as he spread his wings for flight. By this time players began to regard the matter as serious and they shouted "hoy" in chorus, while the man who had driven off hurried forward waving a club, but the bird was not to be discouraged so easily. Again he .seized (he ball and again dropped it. Next time he succeeded, and, undismayed by language not altogether unknown on golf courses, spread his great wings and made off across No. 7 green in the direction of the fairway to No. 2.

Flying .with wide open beak and weighted by a bit of the best-wound rubber that comes out. of England, the gull obviously encountered difficulty. tie was slow to make height, and his direction was as bad as many golf strokes, but he persisted and as far as the player concerned could see he had been robbed to I lie tune of .'is .'id. However, the gull dropped his loot some 300 yards from the place where he got it.