GOLF.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 690, 28 May 1903, Page 6

GOLF.

Mrs Boys 1 writes to “ Golf IllustMted’ : Chivalry, on the links is nfearly as extinct as the dodo, be it at St. Andrew'®, or on the almost as populated links Ea the South oi England. However, I thimS this regrettable state of affairs originated mainly through the want of courtesy frequently shown by weak women players, who kept men back on the green with what their more sporting sisters considered an unpardonable lack of generosity.” It is the same in this country. The real sportswomen among the ladies never keep the men back, and it is the others’ who make all suffer. I am glad to say that there is the best feeling between the real golfing ladies and their men friends, and I hop® it will long remain.

Miss Rachel Elliot, the golf champion of Ceylon for four years in succession, ha® this year secured the blue ribbon of golf, croquet, and tennis.

A compressed air ball is the newest invention in golf balls. It sounds expensive. The Haskell Co. is vigorously prosecuting its legal fight against the other manufacturers of cored balls. At the rate the patent laws move in England, however, it is expected to be three years before a decision is given, so there is no immediate hurry to discard the Kempshalls.

Balls are now tested with a i lechanfcal driver, so constructed that when a heavy spring is released a lever ill the shape of a club flies down, striking the ball, and sending it 200 yards or more. As it strikes with the same force each time, the test of each ball is absolutely equal.

An accident, which has inflicted permanent disablement on a well-known golfer, i® that which occurred recently to Mr Arthur W. Nicholson, Chief Assistant of the House of Commions. He has been accustomed to spend a golfing week-enfd at Lord Wimborne’si fine course at Broadstone. near Bournemouth, and while shaving one morning he slipped and so seriously cut his eye that it had to be removed. Mr Nichols'on was one of the keenest of Parliamentary golfers, and when at Oxford in the seventies he rowed in the University Eight.

Mr J. C. Burns won the Georg® Cup oa th© Cornwall Park link® on Saturday, With a handicap of 11 his score for tw® second round was 84 net, this giving a grand total of 175 for the two rounds. Dr. Coates made the rounds with thrwi strokes more, just beating the saratefi man, Mr J. R. Hooper, by a einglo stroke, and then followed Messrs J. W. Hall, W. Heathet, T- H. Lewis, Main, Anderson, Colbeck, Turner, Payton, Pollen and Rutherford in that order.

The draw for the senior match for Me A. Hanna’s prize' for which the first roumll is to be played on or before Saturday, June 6, is as follows :—C. Gillies plays J, R. Hooper, J. R. Sykes plays H. T. Gillies, J. Burns plays W. B. Colbeck, A. Peel a bye. This match is for seniors that have a handicap of less than 12, and will be match play handicap, over 18 holes.

The junior match for Mr A. Hama’a prize will be under like conditions, and for players with a handicap of 12 or mom. The draw is as follows :—E. Bloomfield v. E. Horton, C. Nathan v. A. Walker, Ek o’Rorke v. R. Horton, J. S. Rutherford v. C. R. Pollen, D. McCormick v. H. Horton, Dr. Lewog v. E. Turner, M. A.. Clark v. P. Upton, Rhodes a bye, E. W. Payton v. J. W. Hall, L. Mair v. Rev« Tisdall, W. E. Bruce v. A. B. Roberton, Dr. Gordon v. C. Heather, W. W. Bruce ▼. H. Gilfillan, jun., W. Heather v. Dm Coates, E. Anderson v. J. R. Reed,. Rev* McWilliam a bye.