BERT GADD: PLAYING RECORD - PRE WAR continued

1938

2nd

(Bert Gadd’s record is not complete as Alliance records pre-war have not yet been located. There were numerous wins in the Birmingham Alliance where he was Gold Medallist from 1932 to 1935. He was also active in the Liverpool Alliance for four years from 1936 to 1939 and may well have met with some success in that region)

* † The Northern Professional Championship dates from 1920 and the original trophy, the Manchester Guardian cup, which was won outright by Arthur Havers in 1922 following two consecutive victories, was eventually returned to the West Lancashire Golf Club, where he was the professional at that time. The following year Gene Sarazen took the title at Lytham, followed by the first of George Gadd’s two victories in 1924. Abe Mitchell won, also at Lytham, in 1925; George Gadd won again in 1926 and Charles Gadd’s courageous victory on his ‘home green’ at Brancepeth Castle came in 1930. A Gadd brothers treble was prevented by Percy Alliss when he successfully defended the title in 1937, beating Bert Gadd into second place by two shots.

The trophy – or trophies - played for in the late twenties and thirties have not been found and may not to have survived the war.