LAWNS & LINKS.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue I, 4 July 1896, Page 16

LAWNS & LINKS.

GOLF. ANOTHER ladies’ golf club is to be started in Auckland on ground at Epsom, which is admirably adapted to the purpose. A meeting is being held to-day to arrange matters in connection with it. Mrs Lucas Bloomfield is the prime mover in the getting up of this club.

The following officers have been elected by the Dunedin Golf Club for the ensuing season :—President, Mr W. Hutchison, M.H.R. (re-elected); vice-president, Mr R. Chisholm ; captain, Mr John Laing ; hon. secretary and treasurer, Mr E. S. Paterson; committee— Messrs H. Coull, R. Smith, D. Campbell, and T. Brydone.

At the Links at Miramar, Wellington, on Saturday the second competition was played for the silver cleek

presented by the captain, Mr W. Moorhouse. Mr A. Duncan came first, followed very closely by Messrs Jackson and Dy mock.

At the Hutt Links the ladies were engaged in keen competition for their captain’s medal, won by Miss L. Wilford. I believe the youthful caddies of the Hutt take a keen interest in the game. Among them the Miramar players are familiarly known as the * Canaries.’

Mr Musgrove, the manager of the Australian cricket team, told the following story to a Cricket reporter when asked if he had any chance of playing cricket when on tour with the Williamson and Musgrove Opera Companies : —* Oh, yes. In our own opera company—the Williamson and Musgrove Opera Company—we have seven really good cricketers, and can always get together a fairly strong team. We arrange matches beforehand at places where we are to stop right through the tour. One of our best players was Sid Deane, who is very well known in Australian cricket. We had rather an amusing experience when we went to Dunedin, where we had arranged to play the town club, which was pretty strong. We won the toss and put them in, much to their surprise. They had heard very little of us, and could not understand our move at all: in fact, I am afraid that they thought we must have more impudence than sense, or else that we did not understand the game, being merely theatrical people. But as we were only to play for a short time it seemed to be the only possible way of winning the match, and we did not want a draw. As it happened we got them out for about 38, and made 180 ourselves in our one innings. They took their beating in very good part, and were very anxious to play us a return match, which would have come off if the weather had held good.’