GOLF NOTES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue XXIII, 7 December 1901, Page 1076

GOLF NOTES.

Messrs. C. S. and H. T. Gillies played their match on the Cornwall Park links, Auckland, for Mr D’Arcy’s prize last week, when Mr. C. S. Gillies proved the winner by the substantial margin of 4 up and 3to play. There was no phenomenal play on either side. In fact, both players were distinctly bad on the green, Mr. 11. T. Gillies, in this respect, being quite off his game. Regarding the last Australian championship contested over the A.G.C. links at Botany, the editor of “Golf Illustrated” has it that the winner, Mr. 11. A-. llowden, is a native of Dii-leton. Hast Lothian, and the name is in the. golfing chronicles of the count v. In the Rev. Kerr’s “Golf Book of East .Lothian” there is an extract from the parish records, of Humble. dated 1651, stating that “Andrew ami Johne llowden” were, with others, convicted of “prophaning the Lord’s Day by playing golf, and duly punished for the same." The editor mentions the success of another Howden, D. A. llowden, of Lloyds, whose ancestors came from East Lothian. This particular Howden the editor induced to take up golf a year or two ago. and lie writes: “I am a devout believer in heredity, ami the power a id grace which Mr. llowden showed in driving at tin- very outset was in a man of his years nothing short of uncanny, ami it puzzled me greatly until I came across this interesting extract from Air. Kerr’s book.” Besides the pair of Howdeus who have supplied Australian champions, there happens to he still another Howden distinguished • in Australasian golf. This one was the pioneer of the now flourishing golf of Wellington, New Zealand, whore the New Zealand championship has been held longer than anywhere else by the Prydes and Dunean. Mr. D. 11. Howden, of Wellington, was an old Scotch player, and 1 hough bis driving was not of the length of the younger players of today. his short game was so remarkably pawky as to make him a dangerous opponent in the various chanipionsli ips.