GOLF FOR NAZIS.
Army, Na. y and Others Must All Play. Golf, by Nazi decree, is to be the national sport of Germany (states an Associated Press message from Wiesbaden, Germany, to an American journal ). Acting under orders from Berlin, Karl Henkel, chief of the German Golf Clubs’ Unions, and- Gustav Schaefer, leader of the Gymnastics and Sports Association, announced plans to popularise the royal and ancient game and bring it within the price-reach of the lowliest German. The Army. Navy, Hitler’s Storm Troops and members of the Youth Movement will be expected to lead a new horde of divot diggers across German fairways. New and better golf courses are to be built, Herr Henkel said; the nrice of equipment is to be lowered and membership in golf clubs limited to two marks a year for adults and one mark for juniors under eighteen vears of age. A national tournament is to be held on May 10. Ascension Day, open to all amateur men and women players, and a full programme of international matches, juvenile championships, professional and mixed championships will be drawn up for later in the year.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20284, 19 April 1934, Page 7
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