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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 140, 16 June 1931, Page 4

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WANGANUI LADIES’ CLUB BELMONT CUP PLAY. DRAW FOR TO-MORROW. The following are the results of the first round of play by the Wanganui Ladies’ Golf Club for the Belmont Cup:— Aliss N. Grace 119 22—77 Aliss Currie 89 11—78 Airs Woollams 90 12—78 Airs Russell Grace .. 89 9 —Bo Airs Tai boys 117 36—81 Airs J. Glonnlol 19—82 The following is the draw for the second round of tho Belmont Cup, to h? played to-morrow, and any players not able to play are requested to notify th* secretary:—• Airs A. Hunter v. Airs Gilbert. Aliss A. Quin v. Miss Blyth. Airs Partridge v. Airs Woollams. Airs Armstrong v. Mrs Silk. Airs Russell Grace v. Airs Hussey. Airs Richardson v. Aliss Currie. Airs Earle v. Aliss Johnson. Airs Harris v. Mrs Christie. Mrs Forlong v. Aliss Al. Quin. Miss J. Christie v. Miss Collier. Airs J. Glenn v. Airs Orton. Aliss Hat rick v. Airs Coghill. Airs Bassett v. Airs Rutherford. Mrs I. Saunders V. Mrs AL Hunter. Aliss N. Grace v. Airs Carver. Miss Izard v. Miss M. Aloore. Mrs Williams v. Airs Paterson. Aliss Zieslcr v. Airs Hornby. Miss Worry v. Airs Frankish. Aliss Harrison v. Airs Bain. Alias Lewis v. Airs Grieve. Aliss Anderson v. Airs Cuthbertson. Miss E. Craig v. Aliss F. Anderson. Miss Bassett v. Mrs Taiboys. MAXWELL CLUB FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIPS. SATURDAY’S RESULTS. Owing to the weather conditions on Saturday quite a number of Alaxwell golf club members failed to turn up, especially those from q distance. The first qualifying round was piayed, and the second will bo played next Saturday. The following are the results )f Saturday’s play:—H. Siddall 87, Doug. Blair 93. J. Blair 96, S. Wills 98, H. Ireland 101, E. Morrison 103, L. Darbyshire 103, D. Morrison 109, E. Hare 114, J. Alexander 118, W. Handley 119, F. Handley 121. FAMILY MATCHES EATHER-AND-SON CONTESTS. INTERESTING COMPETITIONS. A member of a well-known London golf club has informed mo of an interesting competition they have just held, and wishes to know if it is the first of its kind (writes C. W. Packford in the English Sporting Life). It was be tween members and their schoolboy sons, and was won by tho younger generation after a close struggle. I have no record of a similar competition having previously been held, but it appears to me to bo one that, might be encouraged. It would lend variety to competitive duels, and it might prove a big factor in the encouragement of youth. It has always been a wish of mine— I advanced the idea some two years ago—to sec a contest between fathers and sons of our leading players. It is easy to imagine that this would create exceptional interest, especially if it we?e not confined to amateurs or professionals. A lot of interest would depart from it if this wore done, for it would eliminate both James Braid ind John Henry Taylor, for the former’s son, Harry —who I once thought would win the amateur championship—and Taylor’s bey, the Oxford Blue, are both amateurs, and their presence would lend distinction to the contest. For the “field” would be an interesting one with “Sandy” and “Bob” Herd, Phillip and “Pat Wynn, and Tom Trapp and Reg Wilson and their respective sons, in addition to others whose names I cannot for the moment recall. The matches could either be foursomes or four-ball, but I think it would be far more fascinating if foursomes were played, for tho discussions between father and son as to how the “next shot” should be played would be “interesting” indeed. I can imagine 4 ‘Bob” Herd, for instance, addressing his father with, “Take an iron here, ‘guvner’; you will make a mistake if you play a brassie. ” And 1 can imagine the look of amused toleration on the face of “Sandy” when he obeyed such definite and authoritative advice. There are many interesting family combinations that could be associated in matches of a friendly character. I have to learn, however, of a case similar to that of the Herds—“ Sandy,” “Bob,” and young “Alex”—father, son and grandson, who would be well backed to defeat any three generations, of another family. Then there are three Taylors—the brothers “J. 11. and Joshua—the latter the presiding authority at the Richmond public course.—and the amateur son of tho old champion; three brothers Whitcombe-Charles, Ernest, and Reginald—and half brothers, such as Abe Alitchell and Alark Seymour. And in the ranks of both amateurs and professionals there are many instances of brothers having attained to distinction in the game. It is easy to recall tho names of Boomer, Cotton,, Murray, Torrance, Hartley, AlcCallum in this connection, and there are, of course, several others, the three Mathiesons, for instance, all of whom obtained their schoolboy international “caps,” and one of whom, “Bobby,” played on four occasions for Oxford against Cambridge, and tho Carrs, tho twin sons of Sir Elmslee Carr. Perhaps the most remarkable golfing families have been tho Hezlets, of Ireland, and the Kyles, of Scotland, but there arc two other associations one cannot easily overlook. These are the three sisters Leitch, headed by “Cecil.” the only real chai longer to Joyce Wethercd for tho honour of being the premier lady player of all time, and Miss Wethercd and her brother Roger, who are undoubtedly the most famous brother and sister golfers we have ever seen.