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fessionals, although he has had to wait for it until the comparatively mature aga of 34. Taylor has this year been in indifferent form he putted su badly that he ran up 84 in the last round. But Vardon and Braid remained at the top of the list. They proved by individual rounds that they are
given of the play in the Qualifying Stage of the Open Golf Championship. At that great as ever. But for the motoor-like time, the Championship was "open" in a performance of Tom Ball, the two famous double senas. Some prophets declared & r golfers would share with Pay the dis the old brigade; others placed their continction of holding the record" of the tidence in the youngsters; but no one had axtended course. Close on their heels is the daring to pick out a favourite from Duncan, who continues to encourago. the among the 62 survivors of the 215 original the expectation that in him. Scotland has a entrant. At the close of the first day of reserve Champion. Laurence Ayton. re- the Championship proper, however, it was
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coni-laden sloop was engulfed. The after. Above Company for Hongkong and its On Thursday, however, THE Undersigned, having been appoint- ed GENERAL AGENTS of the noon was very calm, the faint breeze Dependencies, are prepared to accept was insufficient to keep the vessel under approved risks against Fire at currunt way, she drifted helplessly, and eren. tually came within the irre-istible influence
MOW FUNG & CO., of the currrent. With increasing speed she
General Agents. was driven towards Corryvrockin and nothing could possibly 'be done to arrest her. Realising their danger, the crew took to one of the small boats, and with great On the first day, the players who were difficulty succeded in roping ixyood the in the best position finished precisely in Taren of the whirling water. In less than the order in which they stood at the close two minutes after hor abandonment, the of the second round. Ray had the eplendid sloop reach the vortex and disappeared. aggregate of 295-five strokes lower than She did not rise again to the surface. the score by which Braid won at MuirSeki {***
in 1908; Vardon, after a great effort, had
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Twas not the nervous fears that try The man who has to do or dia......
23; Braid came next with 303; and Dun. I missed the putt. I don't deny can was fourth with 305. Ray proved That it was short. But I defy himself to be indisputably the best golfer Another to have holed the shot in the field. Ho headed the second section Though he were twice as good as I.
On which depended such a lot, in the Qualifying Stage, and in the six successive rounds his scores were,-77, 78, 71. 73, 74, 75. These figures are an elu. quent testimony to his sustained excellence. On the last day, alas, there was no indica. Lion of tempermental weakness; he bolter ed all the time that be could win, and no seri va mishap occurred to, cause him an | Raxious mouent.
J
The dominant feature of Ray's golf is his tremendous power in the long game. Ho stands over six feet in height and is straily built. Fvory nnce of his bodily weight is hurled behind the ball in the prodigious strokes he makes either with wooden cluba er iron.Ray would be the first to admit that he is not a graceful plupar His sing lacks the beautiful rhythm of Vardon and Donan; its power alone impreses. And yet in some specta of the short game it would not be easy to name a golfer with a, more delicate touch."
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It was through no faint hearted thought
missed the putt.
Io simply was the caddie's tie,
I
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TOTAL, FUNDS AT 31ST DRcensen, 1911,
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I-Authorised Capital £6,000,000 Subscribed Capital £4,000,000
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430,193
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