Golf

British Mixed Foursome. At Worplesdon, the final important golf tournament of the year came to a close with Joyce Wethered and Cyril J. H. Tolley the mixed foursomes champions of Britain. Miss Wethered, four times national champion, played the matches for the first time without the partnership of her brother Roger. The latter, paired with Molly Gourlay, champion of France, was early defeated.

On the 113-yard tenth hole (which calls for a drive across a lake onto a gradually rising, slightly terraced green), Miss Wethered holed out in a single shot.

Nine-Inch Tee. The notable feature of the British mixed foursome tournament was a nine-inch tee employed by one M. D. Auckland. Though the dizzy elevation enabled him to develop prodigious distance on the drive, Mr. Auckland's fairway shots were fallible. The firmest lie on the finest carpet looked to him like a niblick shot.

Guttie Balls. At Woking, on the Surrey dunes, England amused herself with her annual investigation into the idiosyncrasies of the old- fashioned gutta percha ball. A notable group of players, including long-hitting Cyril Tolley, " ancient " Bernard Darwin, Roger Wethered, C. V. L. Hooman, E. W. E. Holderness, conducted experiments. Wethered managed to hew out a 77. Tolley, who can drive over 300 yards with abnormal rubber cored ball, did little better than 200 with his gutta percha pellet.