NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1314, 1 July 1915, Page 37

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Match reports and news items for insertion in the Golf Page must reach this Office not later than Thursday of each week.

Any sums collected through the Refl Cross Fund competitions and forwarded tn the Secretary of the New Zealand Golf Union, will be duly acknowledged week by week in this column.

Red Cross Competitions:—Previously acknowledged, £6B 135.; Hokitika, 175.; Karori, 18s.; Rotorua, 165.; Dannevirke, £1; Auckland, £1 55.; Waipukurau, 195.; Lyttelton, £1 35.; Maungakiekie, £1 165.; Miramar, £5 55.; Nelson, £1; New Plymouth, £2; Christchurch, £1 17s. Total, £B7 9s.

Auckland.

In common with clubs in other parts of New Zealand, the Auckland ladies’ clubs played matches on June 24th in the Dominion medal handicap, a competition promoted by the Wellington professionals in aid of the Wounded Soldiers’ Fund. The conditions were not ideal, the various courses being heavy, as the result of recent rains. The best local cards were: Mrs. Bailey, Waitemata, 106 —32 —74; Miss M. Payton, Auckland, 94—18 — 76; Miss Stacpoole, Maungakiekie, —35 —79. The detailed results were as follows: —•

The play at Middlemore resulted in favour of Miss M. Payton, who returned a card of 94 —18 —76. The next best cards were those of Miss P. Macfarlane, 100—22—78; Miss E. G'orrie, 107 —25 —82. Forty-four players took part in a match on the Maungakeikei links. The course was heavy, and the best net score was that of Miss Stacpoole, whose card read 114 —35 — 79. Other good cards were returned by Miss I. Walker, 111—30—81; Miss Tressider, 118—37—81; Miss Gorrie, 89—7 —82. About 20 members of the Waitemata Ladies’ Golf Club took part in the match handicap. The course was in bad order, part of it being under water as the result of the recent heavy rains. Mrs. Bailey finished with the excellent net score of 74. The best cards returned were those of Mrs. Bailey, 106—32—74; Mrs. Neville, 107—31 —76; Mrs. Prime, 107 —25 —82; Miss Goudie, 103 —20 —83; Miss Bray, 109—25—84; Miss Newell, 114—28 —86; and Mrs. Alison, 125— 38—87.

The tie for the Red Cross match, between Miss K. Holmes and Miss P. Macfarlane, was decided at Middlemore on June 24th, when Miss Holmes won, her card reading 95 —18—77.

Cambridge. The best local score returned in the Dominion Medal handicap, which was played op June 23rd, was" that of Mrs. Fraser, 96—25 —71 Miramar.

The Miramar Club so far holds the record for entrance fees for the Red Cross competitions, its return for the June match reaching £5 ss. Ashburton.

The lady members of the Ashburton Club played a match for the bogey Bermaline Cup, which resulted in a win for Miss C. Friedlander (2 down), Miss M. Smith (5 down) being second. A trophy presented by Mr. Bullock was also played for. Miss M. Smith (1 down) proved the winner, with Miss I. Digby (2 down) second.

Memorial to Miss Fraser. Golfers throughout the United Kingdom are organising a memorial fund to commemorate the' self-sacrificing devotion of Miss Madge Neill Fraser, who died of typhus while acting as nurse in Servia. The memorial is to take the form of establishing further beds in the Scottish Hospital organisation in Servia, where epidemics of all kinds are adding enormously to the difficulties experienced by a muchundermanned nursing brigade. A pathetic little tribute to Miss Fraser was spontaneously given at her funeral by a Serbian lady, who exclaimed: “It is noble, so noble. To give one’s life for la Patrie is fine, but to give it for the country of another, that is incredible.”

Vardon, Ray, Duncan and Mayo intended competing in the United States Open Championship meeting at Baltusroe. They had booked their passages by the Lusitania on what should have been her return trip to America. The players would probably make the journey by some other boat, but so far no information has been received as to the result of the meeting, which was to open on June 15th.

At the beginning of June, Mrs. Cook was elected captain, and Mrs. Mackie deputy-captain of the Otago Ladies’ Golf Chib. Curiously enough these players played off in the final for the club championship, Mrs. Cook defeating her opponent.

The members of the New Brighton Club recently entertained the members of the Christchurch Drainage Board to luncheon, and showed them over the bnks leased from the board and now in process of being cleared and formed.

A petty act of revenge against the Anglo-American golfing element in Berlin was the burning down by unknown persons of the Scots professional’s private premises on the course, including the destruction of a valuable collection of golfing paraphernalia, clubs, balls, boots, lathes, etc. The professional is also a prisoner at Ruhleben.

Owing to the number of men and boys who have enlisted, women greenkeepers and girl cadd’es are now being employed by the Walton Heath Golf Club.

The new course at New Plymouth is situated on the cliffs and runs along the shore for som j distance. The soil is firmer than that at Waiwakaiho, and after the land has been grazed by sheep for a season the turf should be really good. The distances of the various holes have been carefully worked out, giving a total length approximately of 5600 yards. The short holes are particularly interesting, well guarded, and with cuppy undulating greens. The club has every reason to be pleased with its choice of a course. Apart from the golf, the different peeps of the sea with the high bluffs standing out along the coast line add another charm. At the twelfth hole going on to the green, one opens up a particularly fine view of a high bluff on the southern boundary. On a stormj r day this must be very fine.