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WOMEN GOLFERS AT

ST. ANDREWS.

THE WOMEN'S OPEN CHAMPIONSHIP.

(IEROOR SUTER'S AGENCY.]

St. Andrews, May 14. In cloudy weather, in the second round of the Ladies' Open Cham pionship. Miss Enid Wilson best Miss Gardiner (Royal Portrush) by 5 and 4, and Miss Glenna Collett

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NORTHANTS. DEFEAT

GLAMORGAN. ..

A BOWLER'S MATCH.

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LONDON, May 14. Playing on their own ground, Northamptonshire defeated Glamor- gan by 103 runs.

Northamptonshire. batted first and scored 176 runs. T. Arnott

THE ENGLISH beat Miss Bryant (Ashford Manet). (Glamorgan) took five wickels for

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Glamorgan responded with 131 rias. Y. W. C Jupp took seven wickets for 3 runs.

Miss Wethered Wlas, Miss Joyce Wethered who had not appeared in the Championship In their second innings North- since winning in 1923, beat Mrs, amptonshire ran up a score of 163, Madil, of Hermitage, by 8 and 7;J. C. Clay (Glamorgan) taking five Miss Hollins beat Mits. Ramsay wickets for 17 runs. (Aldmouth) by 4 and 5: Miss Boothby (America) beat Mrs. Bell

Littlestone) by 6 and 3.

ST. ANDREWS: LONDON (U.P.), May 13 Another chapter in golf history will be written on the famous St. Andrews course, during the next few days, when the British Women's Championship is decided there. The best women players in the world have completed their practice on the course. Play starts with the dawn at St. Andrews during the summer and continues until "dark. The course has often been described as one of the most wonderful in the world, and it is certainly one of the most difficult.

The first 100 bunkers at St. AD- drews are the hardest they are sufficiently well known to poses individual names. Scores of others which lurk concealed waiting for an unlucky drive have not been classified in the bunkers hall of fame,, but they are just as dan gerous as their more distinguished kinsmen. A good drive will pass merrily over these traps, bat a sliced bali means disaster. Every approach is flanked by the bonny braes and banks of Scätland, which are much nicer accompanied by music than by the remarks of ar irate golfer.

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THROVUR REUTER'S AGENCY.]

HOTEL MANAGER'S DEALINGS WITH MONEYLENDERS.

Transactions with moneylenders who charged excessive rates of in- Moonrows, Leeds, May 14. terest worementioned at the Man, A powerful field, including several chester Bankruptcy Court when Americans and Ryder Cup players, Frederick Duncan

Ferguson, an competed in the qualifying rounds hotel manager, of Oxford Avenue, of the Thousand Guiness Tourna Marton, Blackpool, applied for his

discharge from bankruptcy,

ment.

Leading scores in the first round

were:--

A Compston, 71.

The receiving order was made in January, 1923. Liabilities amounted to £1.632 And assets realised £10. No dividend could be paid to un- secured creditors, and the assets

L. Cotton (Coulsdon Court), 73. J. Jurado (Argentina), F. Robson (Cooden Beach), W. Ball (Lancos- On their second visit to the wicketer). A. Boomer (Paris), Tom Barre insufficient to the extent of Glamorgan faced badly, the whole ber (Cavendish), 74.

about £30 for the expenses of the side being out for 87 rues,

bankruptcy.

Notts Beat, Koni.

Notts beat "Rent, by an innings and 37 ruas.

Keat scored 253 (Barratt, & for 44) and 135.

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Notts hit up 427 (A. W. Carr, 123).

South Africans v. Middlesex. The South Africans beat Middle- sex by a wickets.

Scores:-Middlesex 132 (Morkel for 61), and 240 (E. T. Killick, 111) South Africans 991 and 3 for

wickets.

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Yorkshire v. Basex. Yorkshire won by an innings and

3 runs.

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Scores:-Espex 195 and (Rhodes 9 for 3); Yorkshire 299 for 7 dec. (Leyland 134).

Worcester v. Somerset. Worcestershire 933 and 81 for 3; Somerset 108 (Root 5 for 37, H. A. Gilbert for 4). Game drawn.

THEFT FROM GOLF CLUB LOCKER.

MENTAL ABERRATION"

PLEA

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Hurtod Smith (UIS,A.), 75.

T. Green (Copt Heath), D. Free- man (Thorpeness), S. Brews (8 Africa), R. Ballantine (Moortown), C. Whitcombe (Crews Hill), E. Whitcombe (Bournemouth), A Young (Sonning), W. Davies (Wal asey), and A. Havers (unattached).

TO.

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Started Catering Business,

The Senior Official Receiver (Mr. F. Murgatroyd), presenting his re- port, stated that the debtor was manager of an hotel in Manchester when in May, 1881, with the consent of his employers, he started a cater- ing business for outside sports and shows, but owing to a succession of wet seasons he lost £410' on this yenture. He tried to make up these MY FIRST BABY WAS MY losses by resorting to moneylenders.

BLUE-BOOK HUMOUR.

SECOND."

Tucked away in a solid mass of information relating to the ad ministration of the public health and allied subjects in Scotland con tained in the annual report of the Scottish Board of Health are some Scottish amusing sidelights on character.

A woman, hard put to it to prove, the date of her marriage for pen sion purposes, displayed to the inspectors a large glass water jug engraved with the figures 1888. Wullie was a glazier, ye ken. He did that with a diamond the year we were mairrit," she said. 'Un- fortunately the jug could not be accepted as proof.

Altogether he had bad dealings with six moneylenders. From the main lender he had seven loans at a rate of interest which worked out at about 140 per cent, per annum. There were two other similar loans of £100 each, repayable in a week, for which he paid £4 interest, which was at the rate of over £1,000 per cent. per annum."

He received in all £1,150 "from this moneylender and repaid £2,190, showing & loss of £870. He repaid part of this. interest out of the tak- ings from outside shows, which pre- vented his paying the bills of his contractors.

Belting As Well, The loans he borrowed from other moneylenders also bore excessive Another woman,' who' was .fre-

rates of interest, which ranged from was able; providentially as she erally for very short periods. loans having been borrowed gen thought, to identify his body Altogether the interest charged by: covered from the sea. Unfortunate-

The element of risk is paramount BENCH DEAL LIGHTLY WITH quently deserted by her busband/ 300 to 840 per cent. per annum, the

in playing St. Andrews enu tious player may reach the green in two and still be fifty yards from the hele.

The, course is exceed

ingly narrow. The greens run in couples, and most of them are on plateaus. The fifth and thirteenth are 100 yards zeross. A brave return a wonderful player may score, but he takes the chance of getting into so much trouble that he will tear up his card.

Under these conditions the re- sult of the women's championship is expected to be more of a puzzle than usual. Miss Glenna Collett, the present American champion, has always been a very long driver and curate with a mashie, and her putting has improved since her last visit to England. All these qualifications are essential for a winner at St. Andrews. Miss Joyce Wethered, former British champion,

is coming for the first time since 1925. Either of these gollers, and half a dozen more, is capable of competing in the final this year,

Terrors of the Ocurse.

A brief description of the terrors facing the lady golfers who will play here follows:

Swilican Burn, among the elite in bunkers, guards the First, or Burn Hole. Par is 4; 365 yards.

Second, or Dyke, 402 yards, par 4, one of the finest two shotters in the world. Cheape's bunker, a other blue-blooded barrier, stands guard, with a wirey bunker at the

back to trap an extra-long shot.

Third, or Cartgate, 341 yards, par 4, is samed after the famous bunker at the left of the green.

Fourth, Or Ginger Beer, 385 yards, par 4, with plenty of bunkers and a cottage to keep the game in teresting.

Fifty, or Hole o' Cross, 133 yards, par 6 green is reached across a mighty valley; a five is unnally well earned.

CASE.

The submission that the theft was

the result of mental aberration was made recently at Wimbledon police court, when Henry Williams (45), independent," of Fairmount Road, Streatham, was charged on remand with stealing from a locker at the clubhouse of Wimbledon Park Golf Club a gold watch and chain and ten keys valued £50.

Mr. Wilfred Light made the plea on behalf of Williams, who, in the witness-box, stated that before the war he was a stockbroker's clerk and was quite fit, but after being discharged" from the army in 1917 had been in and out of hospital ever since. As soon as hostilities broke cut he joined the R.A.M.C. because of his knowledge of chemical work. He went into the ambulance

section. He went to France in November, and was later captured by the enemy and sent to Germany,

a slight hitch in his insurance record led to inquiry, and, much to her discomfiture and finally to that of the husband (who was in- prisoned for desertion), led also to the discovery of the husband, still very much alive.

But the proverbial bun, as might be expected, was taken by the old Irish woman upon whom had fallen the burden of proving bath her own. and her husband'e claim to an old- e pension. Ye see, sir," she explained, I've had everything to do, and the first baby I had was my second my very first bairn was its faither."

Knocking Ten Years Ón," One old man whom three marriage

certificates and

Census retora

showed had been born in 1832 stout ly maintained he was only 66, and invited the investigating officer to the railway station where he work ree him lift a hundredweight box at itd, so that he might prove he was too vigorous to have been born long ago. Eventually, however, he

Blown Up in France. At this point Williams, putting his hands against his head, left the witness-box, saying, "Excuse me, have done my bit for King and country. This is not my fault."

He was taken back to the witates. box, and, continuing, said that he was a prisoner for nine months. He was afterwards exchanged, and rejoined the R.A.M.C. After being blown up he was sent to an asylum in Lancashire, and was in hospital

for twelve or fifteen months in the observation ward.

admitted he was 76.

The disqualification of widows on Account, of misconduct, says the re port, continues to be well cared for by their neighbours. Should any pensioned widow go even if a kennin mous, quickly finds its way to the wrang a letter, usually anony

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department, where subsequently in quiry does not alwaye confirm its accuracy.

Later, he was put into a padded cell for a time. He was then sent to a hospital in Manchester, and Examples are also given of the afterwards to one in London, again traditional independence of the being placed in the observation Seat. Mention is made of the skip ward. Eventually he was dischargner of a private motor boat who is ed as being medically unit.

73.years of age but refuses to claim Before the war he was earning a pension so long as he can keep £250 a year. He did not know his job. Then there is the wife of when be came to Wimbledon, and a pensioner who will not claim a he could not explain how he got pension for which she herself there.

"hasna worked." But surely the It was stated that Williams had limit is reached by the woman who, ...... committed a similar offence at having worked all her days in a Seventh, or High Hole, 233 yards, Brighton, but was discharged by factory, not only refuses, so long par 4; getting into the real danger the magistrates and went back to as she can keep her job, to claim zone now; a score of 99 for the first hospital. The chairman of the, the 65-70 pension, to which she is seven holes means faultless golf. Bench (Mr. W. A. Godin) said that entitled, but insists that the differ- Eighth, 139 yards, par 3; ninth, they would deal as lightly as they between the reduced contribu- 273 yards, par 4: tenth, 312 yards could with the caso. Williams tion for people over: 65 and the par 4, are a full before the coming would be placed on probation, a ordinary contribution should be storm; a stroke or two waved here condition being that he got in touch paid by her into the employees? will come in handy, on the way with the Ministry of Pensions. home.

Sixth, or Heathery, 3 yards par 4 Heather, with heather, and more heather; hence the name of Heathery.

Eleventh, or Eden, 148 yards, pär

3, most famous or infamous hole in

golf.

the green,

Capable of being either Second shot over Hell; Graves and heaven or ball, Green perched on Ginger Beer bunkers waiting near a slope; waters of the Eden be- yond; Strath and Hill Bunkers are among the more notorious; more than one championship has been lost here."

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Fifteenth, or Cartgate, 365 yards, par 4; short but far from easy.

Sixteenth, corner of the Dyke, 338 yards, par 4; the Principal's Twelfth, or Heathery, 318 yards, Nose and Deacon Time combine to par 4, is: guarded by Strake, an un-trap the unwary. usually greedy bunker, well conceal- Seventeenth, or Road Hole, 456 yards, par 4; Player drives over a shed and then sees the green, a narrow plateau, with waspish bunker eating into its vital. Hard, high rond on right completes major difficulties. A pitch is likely to take the high road here."

ed.

Thirteenth, or Hole of Cross, 403 yards, par 4; Coffin bunker may be indicative of a player's hopes at this hole..

Fourteenth, or Long Hole, 618 yards, par 5, magnifirert, specte cular, and often ruinous. Büced tee shot may land in Elysian fields; (Continued ut fout of next column),

....

Eighteenth, Home, 381 yards, par A; nothing much to fear, unless ball is topped into Swilican Burn,

fund for charitable institutions.

One claimant proved his age by recollecting that when nine years' old he suffered 14 days' imprison ment for stealing apples..

WARSHIPS IN HARBOUR.

Basin, H.M.S. Tamar. 3.W. Basin, HMS. Scamiew. North Arm, H.S. Sirdar and Bomme.

W.W. Dock, H.M.S. Cornwall, In dock, H,M,S. Marazion and Submarines L15 and L20.

No. 1 buoy, H.M.S. Hermes, No. 18 buoy, H.M.S. Thracian. No. 13 buoy, H.M.S., Stormcloud. Foreiga men-of-war-French' gunboat Argus and U.S. transport Henderson.

amounted to £1,200, an moneylenders in three years almost equal to the debts he owed amount at the time of his bankruptcy.

The debtor had also indulged in betting on horse races, the amount of his losses from this cause being that his conduct in wasting his own about E1,000, and the report stated. and his creditors' moncy called for

serious criticism.

Mr. Anderson, for the debtor, asked that the discretion of the court might be exercised in the debtor's favour. He explained to Judge Leigh that the man's old em- ployers had sich confidence in him that they had offered to find him another position if he could obtain his discharge from bankruptcy.

charge subject to suspension for six Judge Leigh granted the dis- months and judgment being entered against the debtor for £30, this not of the court. He intimated, how- to be enforced without the consent ever, that having regard to all the circumstances of the case the-sus- pension would have been much longer but for the offer made by the" debtor's old employers.

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