AUSTRALIAN GOLFERS
TOUR OF DOMINION
VON NIDA AND CREMIN •
(Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day
The Australian golf players, J. von Nida and Cremin, arrived by the Awatca to play exhibition matches. After the tour Cremin will return to Australia, but von Nida is going to Suva, Honolulu, America and England Von Nida said that in Australia Cremin was believed to be the best putter in the world. The standard of golf in Australia was high, he said. For instance, to win the New South Wales competition it was necessary to better par figures. The New Zealand centennial tournaments had aroused a great deal of interest in Australia. There would be at least 15 professionals, as well as a team of amateurs, coming. He, too, was coming back for the tournaments. Von Nida said that if the Golf Council desired, lie would do what ho could to induce American and English golfers to take part in the tourneys.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19915, 18 April 1939, Page 7
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