GOLF

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19125, 21 September 1936, Page 8

GOLF

U.-S. AMATEUR TITLE FISCHER DEFEATS McLEAN (Elec. Tel. Copyright —United Press Assn.) NEW YORK, Sept.’2o. Johnny Fischer (Cincinnati) won the national amateur golf title, defeating Jock-McLean (Glasgow), one up at the thirty-seventh. Fischer was three down with eight holes 1o play, but. gave a remarkable display of golf to draw up to and down his opponent. TWO GOLFERS BUY CLUB COOMBE HILL LINKS LONDON, Aug. 13. Mr. J. W. Molden, governing director of an electric clock company and a keen cricketer, and Mr. A. Y. Gowen, managing director of the Alpha Cement Company, have bon gilt Coombe Hill Golf Club, near Kingston-on-Thames, one oi the King’s favourite golf courses. One hundred and 30 men are at work enlarging the dining-room and kitchens, building new premises for the caddies and a new shop for the professional, Archio Compston, but no further admission to the membership of 500, now full, will be made, and the fees (£lO 10s a year) will not- be raised. Mr. Molden and Air. Gowen are botli members of the club. Air. Molden said : “This- is not a commercial enterprise. We have bought tho club for the benefit of its members. The club will go on exactly as before.”