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 Crawley
was to become a famous journalist himself and, for thirty years, he
wrote on golf for the Daily Telegraph.
The achievements of Charles and
L. G. put Brancepeth Castle on the golfing map and the club
recognised this by giving a dinner in their honour in1931, the year
that Charles played all four rounds of the Open over the long
demanding Carnoustie links and Crawley won the English Amateur at
Hunstanton. Charles had recently returned from the Roehampton
Tournament, where he had broken the course record with a 67 (38 out,
29 back). In the subsequent match play he defeated the famous Abe
Mitchell, a member of that year’s Ryder Cup team whose figure tops
the trophy. [Charles won a professional invitational match held that
year at Eaglescliffe GC, Stockton-on-Tees, four shots ahead of two
men who would become Ryder Cup players: Alfred Padgham and Arthur
Lacey, with three of the 1931 team members at the rear: Arthur
Havers, Syd Easterbrook and Ernest Whitcombe.] Paying tribute to his
tutor in his speech, L. G said: “I feel sure you will realise that
Gadd deserves all the congratulatory words said about him. I still
hope the Ryder Cup selectors will regard him as a serious candidate
in the team shortly to visit America”. Charles’ disability made that
impossible of course, but for that I feel sure that he would have
made the team.
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