“BID” FROM GOLFER

Taranaki Daily News, 12 November 1934, Page 6

“BID” FROM GOLFER

DISAPPOINTED AUCTIONEER. LAND SALE NEAR THE LINKS. A golfer on the Woollahra municipal links in Sydney recently made an auctioneer conducting a nearby land sale think that at least one man was trying to combine business with pleasure. The land being offered at auction was the Rose Bay Gardens Estate, portion of which faces the Woollabra lints. The auctioneer, Mr. C. H. Crammond, was busily engaged in accepting bids for one lot. They came quickly and briskly from the circle of buyers around him. Then from a little farther away a loud shout was heard. Mr. Crammond turned. “Did you bid four, sir?” he asked. The golfer, from whom the apparent bid had come, was perplexed for a moment. Then a smile gradually stole over the grim features which golfers generally wear and he enlightened the auctioneer. “No, I didn’t bid four,” he said, “but I called ‘Fore!’” and he pointed down the fairway, where it had seemed, as if a cleanly-driven ball was going to hit another player.