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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 89, 16 April 1937, Page 4

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CASTLECLIFF CLUB POWER CUP DRAW. FIRST QUALIFYING ROUND. The Castlecliff Golf Club will hold the first qualifying round of the Power Cup on their Cornfoot Park links to-morrow. Mr. E. A. Millward will be in charge. Players who can start early are requested to do so. The following is the draw:— L. Cathro, R. Moore, K. V. Broughton. J. Wilson, E. H. Jones, D. T. Allan. A. W. Brown, J. Murray, D. J. Horne. R. R. Dawson, J. A. Lee, H. Hartnell. F. J. Currie, I. R. Dickson, W. B. Smith. R. Bates, K. H. Gower, R. C. Cook. R. T. Greenhill, M. G. Wilson, F. Wood. E. Moss, J. Cotton, L. Ennis. L. King, J. Roderick, J. Braid. F. W. Wagstaff, C. F. Wiggens, P. G. Jackson. J. H. Dean, W. W. Dickson, A. B. Currie. P. D. England, E. Christie, N. E. J. Kerns. E. Gilbert, E. K. Rabone, H. Smith. P. Bennett, A. R. Merrington, P. T. Dowdall. W. L. Russell, J. Peat, R. Diederich, M. E. Dowdall, J. Calver, C. Merrington. E. C. Penn, W. J. Carter, A. J. Jamieson. J. Robertson, J. Brighton, A. H, H. Ibbotson. M. Fisher, H. Hawke, W. McMenamin. D. Fisher, V. C. Rapson, W. J. Kane. W. R. Brown, W. Peat, A. O. Keatin;. T. H. McWilliams, L. C. Young, E. H. Christie. T. Whatmough, S. R. Storey, A Gowan. W. C. Curtis, G. Laing, E. A. Millward. J. Aves, J. Lewis, J. Meuli. F. J. Blake, E. R. Hodge, K. James. W. Burt, C. C. Smith, L. E. Lynsky. P. J. Smith, H. Lee, J. Russell. G. Darbyshire, M. G. Bignell, R. H. McKillop. P. J. Palmer, J. Merrington, A. C. Hulbert. M. R. Gilbert, W. F. Carveil, R. Michie. F. A. Godfrey, R. A. Bell, A. Ballingall. A. W. Bogle, T. J. Buddle, W. J. Hastings. T. F. Cass, A. O. Edwards, J. V. McFarlane. F. M. Bourne, T. E. Cooper, G. Bayly. H. Christie, B. M. Pitkethly, W. R. Roberts. ' G. Snadden, R. N. Wilson, B. Leigh.

SEAFIELD LADIES’ CLUB L.G.U. MATCH TO-MORROW MRS SIMMONS’ TROPHY An L.G.U. match will ‘be played by the Seaiield Ladies’ Club to-mor-row and the second bogey round for Mrs Simmons’ trophy on Tuesday. The draw is as follows: Miss Alp v. Miss O’Sullivan. Miss P. Bell v. Miss Tizard. Miss Cowan v. Miss Tawse. Mrs Goldsbury v. Miss E. Clark. Miss Flavell v. Miss L. Clark. Miss Kirk v. Miss Ellis. Miss Sturrock v. Miss Wilkinson. Miss McKendry v. Miss Irwin. Miss Cleland v. Mrs Lamont. Miss McGregor v. Miss Olliver. Miss Owen v. Mrs Kitto. Miss Bamber v. Miss O. Brown. Mrs Pritchard v. Mrs Blanchett. Mrs Ramsay v. Mrs Woods. Miss Adams v. Miss Warnock. Mrs Haggle v. Mrs Gilberd. Miss Calver v. Mrs Lange. Mrs Bell v. Mrs Snell. Mrs O’Halloran v. Mrs Saltinstall. Mrs Goss v. Miss Murray. Miss Corrigan v. Mrs Simmons. MAKIRIKIRI GOLF CLUB A medal match will be played tomorow, the drawing being as follows : F. H. Jones and A. Tasker.

C. Crowley and G. Anderson. J. Crighton and E. Kirk. A. Walker and G. Darbyshire. Keith and A. Dalgety. L. McDonald and E. Cordingley. H. Clemance and E. Farley. O. Hawken and E. Handley. G. Moyle and L. Williams. J. Tustin and R. Lawrence. C. Horrocks and W. E. Robbie. C. Crammond and R. McCrorie. F. E. Smith and W. P. Newsham. E. Clutterbuck and W. B. Harvey. C. H. Walker and C. Walpole. Members whose names are not Included in the draw are asked to ring 209. All cards must be handed in. VARDON THE STYLIST MODEL OF TIME Harry Vardon is one of those whose fife talks. Playing over four holes with clubs made of blocks of wood with holes bored in them in Jersey, where he was born, he took up the then novel occupation of caddy. Pageboy to a doctor, with two half-holidays a year (shades of 40-hour week), he learned little, but at seventeen, as a gardener, he had more leisure, and got his first job as a professional at Ripon, thence went to Bury, afterwards to Ganton, in Yorkshire, where he laid the foundations of his fame. Moving to Herts in 1902, there he re-

mained till his death. Comparisons between players of different generations are futile, says The Post’s London correspondent, and particularly so in the case of golf, since the conditions under which it is played have so greatly changed. No one who ever saw Vardon in his best days doubted, however, that his genius was unsurpassable. Those days are now rather distant, because although he won the last of his six open championships in 1914, it was at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century that he was in his most glorious p»ime. When he won the third of his championships in 1899 no one so much as dreamed that there could be another champion. He had a great influence, too, on methods of playing. When he first appeared his notably upright swing, so full of grace and rhythm, came as a shock to the orthodoxy of the time. Vardon made popular the overlapping grip, \vhich was generally known by his name. Tn grace,* ease, and In

effortless swing he was the incomparable stylist. Vardon held a strong conviction that the deterioration in the standard of British golf was due, in no small measure, to faulty teaching. He ridiculed the idea of the straight leftarm theory, the practice of which he claimed had been the ruin of many promising golfers. His records do not matter, because they live after him in the style he has impressed on all good golfers. The overlapping grip, the upright swing, will live as long as Self. Vardon was a pioneer of plus-fours. Sandy Herd, referring to these garments at a dinner at which the South Herts professional was a guest, said: “I had a pair of plus-fours n\ade, but Vardon was so jealous I had to go back to the “trews.’ ”