People and Their Doings.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20278, 12 April 1934, Page 8

People and Their Doings .

Oliver Kay’s Disqualification, and Golf Scoring Variations : Sir Hubert Wilkins is Going On With His Plans for Nautilus 11. : A War-time Touch for the Melbourne Centenary.

gIR HUBERT WILKINS will probably leave for England on May 5. He has been asked by Mr Lincoln Ellsworth to accompany him if the expedition returns to the Antarctic, but until Sir Hubert hears more definitely from Mr Ellsworth he intends to go on with his plans for building a new submarine. He already has 150,000 dollars’ worth of scientific material to be fitted into Nautilus 11. An ice-drilling apparatus will also be installed to enable the vessel to reach the surface from underneath the ice floes. If Mr Ellsworth decides to go to the Antarctic again the Wyatt Earp will remain in New Zealand waters until August, when it will cross to Valparaiso to pick up the repaired aeroplane and go south. 9 @ @ JYJELBOURNE, during the Height of its Centenary celebrations, will have quite a war-time revival if a suggestion made by a Tasmanian returned soldier is adopted. He has proposed that a camp of between 40,000 and 50,000 former members of the Australian Imperial Forces in Victoria should be established during the celebrations. He suggests Broadmeadows, 20 miles from the city, the war-time site, as the. locale for the camp. These men would then be available when Prince George dedicates the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance. The suggestion will be discussed by the Returned Soldiers’ League at its annual State Conference next month. Up Up up FEW YEARS AGO Bath was enlivened by a young ex-public schoolboy who had a passion for dancing. He seemed to live entirely for the ballroom and the jazz band. Then, one day, he disappeared from the dance floor. Rumours spread that, crossed in love, he had gone abroad; then that he had joined the Foreign Legion in the name of Le Baum. His friends forgot him. All except one, a girl. He wrote to her from Morocco about forced marches, privations, battles with savage tribes. His letters stopped and she heard in a roundabout way that Le Baum had been severely wounded, given up for dead and, recovering, had been decorated for bravery on the field. Then, invalided out of the Legion, Le Baum limped back to Bath, his dancing days gone. The story has a happy ending. The legionary who, in private life, is Mr R. Holmes Lee, of Coombe Down, Bath, was married to Miss Kathleen Cramond, the girl who waited for him, at Bath Abbey on March 20.

r £I IE,SYMPATHY of all golfers (and their name is legion) who in an absentminded moment have grown confused or forgotten one of the many points which govern match play, will go out to Miss Oliver Kay and Miss Bessie Gaisford, who have been disqualified from the “ Bystander ” ladies’ foursome tournament, one of their first big engagements prior to the championships in England. From the brief cable it appears that Miss Kay played tee shots at successive holes, and of course that left the authorities no alternative. In foursome play the team of two players plays one ball only, taking alternate shots. Player A drives from the first tee, the second shot being taken by B, and so on till the hole is played. Then B plays the tee shot at the second hole. One player takes the tee shots at all the odd holes, and her partner all the tee shots at the even holes. $$ CANADIAN foursome play is different, in that both players play tee shots at each hole, and then the ball which lies more fairly may be played as in ordinary foursome play. Thus both A and B drive from each tee. If the partners decide that A’s ball is in the better position, then they pick up B's ball, and the second shot is played by B, the third by A. and so on. Canadian foursome play is much easier than ordinary foursome play, and is used entirely in handicap events. Foursome play is a fine test of golf for average and good players; whereas Canadian foursomes, which give greater chances to those whose accuracy off the tee is not above reproach, are popular handicap .events. 9 CIXTY YEARS AGO (from the "Star” of April 12. 1574) Nelson.—The town of Nelson has been constituted a borough under the Municipal Corporations Act. Alexander.—Mr Mackav and Colonel Lyon met Rewi yesterday at Kopua. Mr Mackay allowed no civilians to be present. Rewi welcomed the party cordially, and said his word was not about Waikato. Manuhiri and Mr M’Lean would have settled that his word was about roadmaking, etc., at Taupo. Wanganui must be stopped. Aporo also spoke similarly. Mr Mackav said that Mr M’Lean was out of the country, and he would not see him probably for six months. Rewi said that he could wait a year. A dance (by the Natives) and Constabulary drill concluded the proceedings.

THE EARL OF SUFFOLK, Whose coming marriage to Miss Mimi Crawford, tho. actress, was recently announced. has crowded a good deal of adventure into his twenty-eight years of life. He sailed round the world as an apprentice in a Windjammer. The crew knew him only as “Howard." He ran his Own sheep ‘ranch in Australia. He roved and adventured in many wild places. But all the time he kept in touch with Miss Crawford. They had known and loved each other for many years, It is less than a year since he returned to England. His father was killed in Mesopotamia in 1917: his mother was one of the Leiters, of Chicago. MISS CRAWFORD is a niece of Lord Chalmers, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, and formerly Governor-General of Ceylon. Her father was for several years stage director at the Alhambra. She has just finished playing in “The Sleeping Beauty " pantOmime in Edinburgh, Her earlier successes include dancing parts in "The Dubarry," “RiS.V.P." and other revues. and she was one of the later "CoOptimists." She is lavely to look at. and her dancing and singing and her Winsome personality have made her a great stage favourite. HO\V A BRITISH sea captain imprisoned in Turkey for 7! months on a charge of smuggling taught his fellow-prisoners. all Turks, to smg sea charities, was related by Captain C. M. “'ray, of Liverpool. Captain \Vray was released by the Turkish authorities recently. "While I was in prison,” he said, “I taught the Turks to sing sea chanties such as ‘Rolling Down to Rio.‘ ‘\‘.'hat Shall \Ve Do With the Drunken Sailor,‘ etc. I rehearsed them over and over again until they really wouldn't have discredited a British choral society. On the day- I left my paper and comb band gave me a great send off with ‘The Girl I Left Behind Me.’ " Speaking of his imprisonment, he slid: “I was perfectly innocent of the charges against me. but I did not understand I word of Turkish. The Court did not knoyv a word of English, and the interpreters were not good enough. Apart from whit I consider an initial miscarriage of 'uufice. I bear no grudge against the ‘liurbbh authorities. Everyone was most km.”