Golf Wagga Club Championships Qualifying Rounds
Golf action at Wagga club as players contest qualifying rounds for the championships. Franklin led early with strong scores while a 16 player cutoff emerges for match play selections.
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Newspaper
Wagga Wagga Express
Location
Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
Date
Aug 01, 1936
Page
5
Golf action at Wagga club as players contest qualifying rounds for the championships. Franklin led early with strong scores while a 16 player cutoff emerges for match play selections.
The Wagga Country Golf Club highlights an LGU tournament to be held August 11 to 15 with close entries by the coming Saturday. Secretary Mr I Cullen notes an attractive programme featuring 36 hole open championship, stroke handicaps, mixed foursomes, fourball stableford, and a grand social day. A special trophy rewards a hole in one and beating par, with a golf dance to cap the carnival.
The teat round of the Chil Hand championship lists qualifiers such as Fraser, R. Wanés, Fitzgerald, Wiggins, and Chapman with scores and placements. The draw for first round pairs Fraser against Ramsey, Haney against Chapman, Fitzgerald versus Shephard Higgins, Riordan versus Reynolds, Campbell versus Spiller, and Wilson versus Dunn. Consolation matches feature Blakey Barr Williamson against Benjamin.
Riverina Championships receive a further application for the 1997 Riverina Golf Championships venue from Wagga Country Golf Club. Delegates may withdraw the application if considered appropriate. it is the fifth submission. The Wagga Bankers plan their annual golf day at Wagga Country Club on Monday with Canadian foursomes in the morning and stroke and choice events in the afternoon and a bankers only event.
Diggers' Golf Day set for Wednesday at the Warea Country Club with Mr J Sheekey accepting weekend entries. A long list of entrants includes Coates Wheeler Higgins Williamson Borlace Poris Gilchrist Rideway Turnbull Weedon Oliver Crane Taane Morrow Hussey Burbury Shaw McEachern Satth Brown Edwards Norman Holroyde Cook Norman Sheekey and many non golfing Diggers noted.
Wagga Country Golf Club announces its annual tournament running Tuesday to Saturday August 11 to 15. Events include associate and men’s events, the associates’ day, the championship, mixed foursomes, and a 36-hole men’s event. A golf dance at the Club House is listed for August 10. Hon. Sec. PHONE 368.
The Compleat Golfer notes that Sir Samuel Walder has invented a collapsible rake for leveling disturbed sand. A spring hinge lets the pandle lie flush with the rake and fit in a golf bag. Walder directs his caddy to operate the rake after bunker visits as about 2000 men golfers in Rivering.
Allan i Muddy McLeish, 44, former champion of the New South Wales Licensed Victuallers golf team now in Melbourne, suffered broken ribs when the car he rode in collided with a motor truck in South Melbourne on Wednesday. The five Sydney passengers, Edward Lynch, John Furlong, Walter Furlong, William Walton, and Gregory Kelghery, escaped unharmed.
The Mayor told Wagsga Council that heavy rain risk from the Maritalsee River requires lowering Burrinjuck Dam water by gradual increments through August per telegrams to Water Conservation. Alderman Selif blamed dam discharge for river rises while Ald Cox noted repairs cost time and questioned irrigation storage during drought. Authorities asked Yass and other towns to run steam plants to aid power generation as dam releases slimmed for hydroelectricity.
The New South Wales Branch of the Commonwealth Clydesdale Horse Society will hold a general meeting during the forthcoming Wagga Show. In Gurwood House Wagga the session features an address by President Frank Young and a talk on heavy horse breeding by a Clyde dale judge who will discuss his awards and experiences.
Rai Bahadur Ram jidas Bajoria, a wealthy Calcutta merchant, has not slept for two years and offers a £140 prize to anyone who can bring back restful sleep. The appeal spread worldwide, with letters and cablegrams from Europe, America, and even U.S. air broadcasts. Suggestions range from a treasure hunt to a humble woods settlement near the Rocky Mountains, with diverse offers of help. A Roosevelt associate has also contacted the distressed merchant.
Denis Dorwn, ex postmaster at Mitta Junction, is committed for trial in Wodonga Court on charges of obtaining £124 from the Commonwealth Bank at Wangaratta by falsely claiming payment to a depositor. He is also charged with stealing a registered letter.
An old agronomy note discusses crop rotation to reduce pests and diseases in vegetables. It outlines the importance of yearly crop sequencing and clean cultivation, noting tomatoes, cabbage, beans, and maize as examples. It classifies rotations into three types and argues market-driven planting often dominates planning.
A Collins Street specialist flew to Hay by plane to treat Miss Adele Eva Cooper of Cobram Station. The doctor arrived four hours before she died. The urgency prompted an earlier takeoff from Essendon. Miss Cooper was the daughter of the late Mr J P Cooper of Christchurch, New Zealand.
The 356th Lottery awarded yesterday first prize to No. 2472 to Mrs. G. Riddiford of Summer Hill. Second prize went to G. Ward of Waverley, third to Mike R. Brosnan of Sydney, and fourth to A. Dudley of Sydney with the listed numbers 1u162 31967 and 27561.
Bathurst beat Wagga 10 to 5 in a country teams baseball clash. New South Wales defeated Victoria while South Australia won 5 to 3 over New South Wales. The Express quoted a note from Jor Printing.
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