NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1318, 29 July 1915, Page 33

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS

The secretaries and correspondents of Golf Clubs are advised to forward accounts of matches, personal notes, etc., not later in future than Tuesday of each week. Auckland. The Maungakiekie Ladies’ Golf Club played the monthly medal match in aid of the Red Cross War Fund on July 14th. The match was won by Miss Tressider, whose score was 107 —33 —74. The proceeds of the match, £1 155., were forwarded to the hon. secretary L.G.U., Palmerston North. Hamilton. The members of the Hamilton Ladies’ Golf Club played an eclectic competition for Mrs. Douglas’ trophy, which concluded on July 14th, Miss Stevens being the winner. The club expected to play against a team from the King Country on July 17th, but owing to various reasons the visitors were unable to play the match. A stroke competition was played instead of the King Country match. The monthly medal and Red Cross medal were won by Miss Wilkinson, whose score was 101—30—71. Miss Cussen played a good round of ninetynine. * * ♦ ♦ Taranaki. “The Manaia Golf Club have suffered a severe loss of members by the war. No less than five of their leadingplayers have left for Trentham camp to go into training for the next reinforcements. * * * * Christchurch. The success of the Red Cross effort in Christchurch is undoubted, and a large proportion of the credit is due to the Christchurch professionals. The Hagley Club started the movement, and the Christchurch Club, the Christchurch Ladies’ Club, and the New Brighton Club came- in. All worked very well, and the result — the aim was at £50 —will be at least £9O. The professionals, in addition to giving their services for the exhibition match, were responsible for the sale of a very large number of tickets, and they hanaed in six new wooden clubs between them—clubs which were new at the commence ment of the match. The sale of these clubs, plus three irons handed in by Mr. B. B. Wood, the balance of the balls used in the match, and Hie balls used in the driving compettion, together with the cakes and flowers, brought just upon £3o—this at a time when the outlook for professionals is far from cheering. The ladies also did well with the afternoon tea, over 300 people being served. AH the expenses of the day will be borne by the four clubs, and not a penny will have to be deducted from the proceeds. * * * * Timaru. The members of the Timaru Ladies’ Golf Club played a bogey match in June, which resulted as follows: — Mrs. McCaskill (17), all square; Mrs. O’Callaghan (12), 2 down; Miss N. Knubley (23), 4 down. For the medal played on July 6th the results were: — Seniors: Mrs. O’Callaghan, 100 —16 — 84; Miss Buchanan, 111 —23—88; Miss Matheson, 112 —24 —88. Juniors: Miss Dryden, 111 —27 —84; Miss Cotterill, 124—37—87.

General Notes. The Queensland Association decided to hold the championship of Queensland, after a great deal of deliberation. The entrance foes aie to ,vo to the Wounded So’diers’ Fund, and the trophies will be bron?.e medals.

Brook Attwood, club champion of Cootamundra, New South Wales, contracted pneumonia shortly after enlisting, and died after a short illness.

Australian golfers are busy on behalf of war funds. So far the V.C. Association War Medal Fund has brought in £243 ss. 9d. Recently a meeting of the Suburban and Country Association was held to consider holding special competitions for all affiliated clubs.

There are upwards of 2000 private golf courses in England, and at the present time, there are not a hundred men engaged on them qualified for other pursuits.

The English “Field” states the amount of golf has decreased by at least 90 per cent, since the beginning of the war.

A London cablegram states that Captain Jack Graham, who has on five occasions reached the 'final in the English amateur golf championship, has been killed in Belgium.

Golf and hockey girls make a great mistake in wearing their prettiest and thinnest stockings when dad for their favourite exercise. The strong boot demands thick, warm hosiery. Not so much does this apply to the tennis girl, who may hyg’enically wear silk with her low-cut tenn’ty shoes. The air gives ventilation to the ankle, and the feet will feel quite, warm, though rigid common-sense would suggest that even with tennis shoes woollen stockings should be worn. But something must be conceded to appearance, and the allwhite tennis girl must have hose of silk or fine thread to match her dainty dress. I saw a girl with racket and shoes complete, lately, and she looked the perfect embodiment of glad health, clad as she was in snowy white, flannel skirt, blouse, felt hat, silk stockings and canvas shoes A pretty silk sports coat of nattier blue gave the finishing touch of colour to this simply garbed girl. It was but a passing glmpse, yet it made one happier, in these sad times, to remember that youth and joy are still in this much-enduring old world of ours. It would be a pity, then, if our girls took too furiously to common-sense and rational clothing, and banished all these pretty frivolities.

Writing in the London “Sportsman” on the merits of the foursome R. E. Howard says:—About a year ago Mr. Josiah Newman collected the opinions of nearly a hundred wellknown amateurs as to the relative merits of the foursome and the fourball match. So far as I can remember all but two or three were pronouncedly in favour of the foursome as the proper form of golf. Yet, by one of those little inconsistencies which frail humanity is ever disclosing, it is certainly the most neglected system of competition. Even the men who say that it is best and who really think so do not play it, and the reason is simply that they have fallen out of the way of playing it. A four-ball

match is proposed from force of habit, and as everybody wants to be up and doing, and nobody is disposed to argue about the matter, a four-ball match is duly contested. It lias its good point in the circumstance that it enables each individual to execute the full number of shots that represent his form and his temperament of the hour, but it has its bad feature in the sense that it often finds him hitting those shots in a detached and careless way. The worst phase of the four-ball match is that frequently a player, after having made a bad drive or second shot, leaves his partner to carry on the fight, but insists on banging his ball up to the hole —either for amusement or in a spirit of obstinacy. Occasionally he announces to his confrere that on him must devolve the responsibility of saving the hole. On most occasions a tacit understanding is presented that the missed tee shot has caused its maker to abandon hope, but that he is going on playing so as to obtain his full share of the shots. The consequence is that he causes the four-ball match to earn a reputation for slowness and does his own golf a lot of harm by developing an attitude of indifference and breaking the spell of concentration. The beauty of the foursome is that each player’s errors are left to be rectified by the partner, and by the time that the culprit comes to tackle his next shot the annoyance of frustration has passed away, and he is so concerned about his duty to the side that he is all

heedfulness. A course of four-ball matches must constitute just about ihe worst kind of mental training That a golfer could undergo; a course of foursome is perhaps the best.

Miss Kathleen Curtis, of Parnell, who is the holder of the Orient Company’s scholarship, left last week by the Riverina to catch the Orient steamer Orontes. It is Miss Curtis’ intention to take up her residence at Newham, Oxford. She will be away from New Zealand two years or more. Mrs. P. Curtis accompanies Miss Curtis to England.