“GOLF" TEMPERAMENT

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXI, Issue 19033, 10 June 1924, Page 10

“GOLF" TEMPERAMENT

Describing the golf championship match between Miss Cecil Leitch and Miss Wethered, at Northwood, which ended in the defeat of Miss Leitch by the convincing margin of 5 and 3, Mr G. W. Greenwood (in the Daily Telegraph) says that not by word or gesture, not even by,the movement of an eyelid, did Miss Wethered betray what was passing through her mind. She was as emotionless as a graven image,, and it was only when Miss Leiteh gave the sign of surrender on the fifteenth green that Miss Wethered relaxed. A faint smile flickered across her face as someone —it may have been Miss Leitch herself—said, quite audibly, “Well done, Joyce.’’ To see Miss Wethered, calm, cool, and amazingly collected, perform before several hundreds of people, one wonders to what extent her priceless temperament plays in the work of destroying the enemy. A tremendous lot,, to be sure. There is nothing so disconcerting, nothing so calculated to get one’s nerves on edge as to stalk around a golf course with a foe who absolutely refuses to be jostled or bustled. This is Miss Wethered; without hurrying and without fuss she attends to the business of despatching the ball, and whether the hitting is for good or ill she displays neither pleasure nor annoyance. 1 have met only two golfers like her in this respect; one is Mr John Ball, and the other is Braid. It is the perfect golfing temperament, and translated into values it is worth a couple of holes. Did not Miss Leitch herself marvel at it when they met for the first time at Sheringham four years ago. As Miss Wethered was putting on the seventeenth green, an express train dashed by with a fearful and disturbing rattle. To Miss Leitehe's astonishment, her opponent proceeded with the stroke without a second’s pause, and afterwards completely confounded everybody by stating that she was totally oblivious to the fact that a train had passed. Concentration such as this is so rare a gift that it is hardly surprising ‘ Miss Wethered has swept everything before her in so short a space of time.