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SOME ASPECTS OF GOLF,

HENRY SETON-KARR, M.P.

GOLE FOR THE STRONG.

with bautiful low straight shot wi.bia ten feet of the fag, and held out in thres. This particular straks, from each a los fall shot for most players with a wooden club, even had

the lie boen perfect-required with a clook a strength of wrist and forearm that only for players posses, combined with a perfect no. curacy of delivery. But it came off; the young player was demoralised and lost the hole and the Distch. These strokes partako, no doubt, of the genius of golf, which is not given to many to posse

GOLF SOR EVERYBODY. To come back to our scornful legislator.

witness the victory of an Englishman, over fifty years of age (barets an encouragement for all middle-aged men), in the amateur championship at

WM. POWELL,

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Hoylake in the year 1902. I may, in passing, GENERAL DRAPERS, HIGH-CLASS DRESSMAKERS, AND

also note, without dilating on the fact, that the Ladies of England very conclusively beat the fair haired lassies of the North in the Ladies International Golf Match of 1902. The Scotel: ladies did not win a single matob.

M.F.'S AT GOLF.

It takes

in which we live. For two hours before and again after lunch, his whole onorgies are bent on driving a small gutta-percha ball over some three miles or so of grass, whin, and bunker into eighteen successiva little holes in the ground in a fower number of strokes than his opponent. While be is at it, strange to say, his mind can think of nothing else, and the stera realities of his daily life are absolutely forgotten, The stakes he strives for amount, perlups, to half-a- crown. But be refreshes brain and nerve, renews his mascle, and disciplines his temper in the

(Author of "Sporting Tales," &c.) There is an ancient story told to the effect

Nothing is perhaps more remarkable in this connection than the growth of the entry for the that an athletic legislator, in the prime of man 12, Queen's Road Central,

hood, was unce asked if he had taken to golf, and

yearly Parliamentary. Golf Handicap. This year the unmber of peora, pressmon, and parlia-, CHEONG LEE & CO., Forniture Store, repled with ill-cogosaled scorn that he was not

ont men whe entered for it exceeded one hun- Established over 20 years. Importers and

Exporters, Teakwood Furniture, Blask.yot old enough for the game. That legislator was

wood, Jewelery, &o, highest grade doubtless wrong, Golf is a man's gems in the Why did ho imply that the game was only a rod, most of whom started, and the date of the bost and cheapest.. E, Queen's Bend fullest sense of the word. One has only to kind of glorified skittles or croquet, a sort initial stage of the handicap is supposed to have watch the course of an amateur golf champion of excuse for old gentlemen, past all really hastened the passing of the Procedure Rules. To hit Some dozen years ago, when this handicap was ship contest being played on one of the first manly exortion, to take the air? class golf Hats of England or Scotland, and small white ball over grassy links into a series originated in a casual way, by the writer and Sir follow the winner through the three or four of holes in the ground, at unequal intervals Herbert Maxwell, the number of legislators who days of keen struggle with the various compoti. apart, with a variety of ungainly looking imple-entered could nearly be counted on the fingers tors he must meet and overcome, at the rate of meats, apparently ill-adapted to the purpose, of two hands, and without pressmen and partia. two 18-hole rounds per day, in order to realise the emiter meanwhile walking leisurely between ment clarks would hardly hara mudo a respec that, in the main, all the physical qualities of the strokes,-what attraction can there be, he table competition. Twenty years ago Wimble manhood, as well as some of its moral and would no doubt suggest, for an able-bodied don Common and Blackheath were the only mental attributes, are fully required and man in a so-called grine of this kind.. One an avaliable golf-courses near London, and member- displayed. The winsor must be sound in windower in--fint experimentum-i-t bin try it and ship could be acquired in the golf clubs of either and limb; he must possess, to a large extant at sea. Verbal descriptions are notoriously decep place in a few days. Now the number of golf- A well-known untional pastime may links within immediate roach of the metropolis all orents, that all-round muscular development tive. which enables hand and back and leg and eye to equally well boy described as the themring.is legion, with long waiting lists of would-be actin rapid and harmonious unison; his strength striking with a woodou iraplement, and pursuit members on the books of all their respective must be controlled and act only at the proper of a email brown leather ball over a smooth clubs. instant; and above all he must possess that nerve grassy sward by a number of able-bodied men

To the busy London man, who has no time for and determluation and good temper which will who might conceivably be more wisely embuating through the winter, and who does not enable him to do his best before a gallory of ployed. The same able-bodied men do theso

care for, the monotony of a morning ride with spoolstors; lo win through a losing game; and things constantly nevertheless, and are watched the gallant "liver-brigodo" in the Park, a day's to triumph over those occasional misfortunes by thousands of Englishmen in the process, and golf in the wook is a priceless hoon. and rubs of the green" which happen at times a few of them even devote the test year of his mind away from legislative worries or basi. to the best of players at the most critical and their manhood to the very occupatiou-for

mess cares, and supplies a mental and physica! tonic of the utmost value in this strenuous age inconvenient moments. All these qualities many months in each year... Golf is not a spec- require that mens sana in corpore eano which it tacular pastime, a game to sit and wach, like is no doubt the ambition of all healthy manhood cricket. It does not, ordinarily, lend itself to to possess, and which demands for its attainment gallery. The average performer who frequently a certain amount of necessary disciplíne both of foozies, who very seldom astómplishes a four de force or gallery shot, at all asents exactly mind and borly.

when it is required, and who often feels, sud occasionally displays, sigua of irritation and loss of temper, is not an attructive sporcie. Golf is a first-class game for anyone, be it noted, to play; it is most distinctly not the best game to watch, and may frequently bere the spectator unless he has money" on the match. Its attraction is a subtle quality which is only gradually recognised and felt; but when it is once fairly aroused in any individual, it usually comes to stay, and may eren develop by Dr. J. G. MCPHERSON, into a veritable monia. It is amin's gane, most certainly, but so also it is a schoolboy's holiday game, an old man's game, and a duffor's game, and thus can be played, so to speak, from the

But space will not ont arguing too much about terus, what is limite, a woman's game. skill but strength perfectly trained and son.

permit its feminine aspect to be dealt with hers. trolled? And what better field for its display

THE WORLD'S GOLF. - display which is occasionally subtle, no doubt

The reasons for this universality are not for -that the game of golf. The amatoar cham- to seek. Two mea-or boyga 1 play it, Each pion is one down at the eighteenth hole in the plays his own hall, and has not to take the deli- Soal round, let us say. He was it by that won-very or service of another as in cricket. tennis dorful mosbie approach which looks as if it was and the like. The science of handicap van going too far, but which falls dead, without any bring any two players of the widest divergence run, near the hole, "What a lucky fall," re of skill-within reuson-together: and while marks an ignorant spectator. Not a bit of it. the game is in progress sach has his full share The ball was "cat" by means of a trained of the game, as is not the case in football, strength of wrist which prevented the ran, and cricket, or even in four-handed rackets and gave the win. Or maybe the winning shot was a Ofteen-foot pult that found the back of the hole. tennis. It thus lends itself to all sorts and con- “A palpable flake," anys the arm-chair critic.ditions of men, idle or busy, old or young, and But where does the "fake" come in, when the supplies all the rivalry of a game of skill in the lie of the green had been carefully studied, and the ball lightly stanek with so firm, yet withal ao delicate and accurate a touch, that it ran per- fectly true over five yards sad no farther of green turf, to a bullseye four inches in diameter? Not much of a shot, perhaps, in practice, and (1741 when nothing depended on it, but certainly a triumph of trained skill and nerve before a thousand spectators, when a hair's breadth deriation of the little white ball meant the loas of match and championship.

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Golf is therefore a man's game. It is also a game, not of brate force, but of skill. Strength no doubt is necessary for a first-oksa player, but his strength must be entirely subordinate to his skill, and must be absolutely under his control. A first-class golf-player, even when MOKE & SETMUND,

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Consultation Fros. Hongkong, 21st March, 1903,

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The growth of golf in England aud America during the past "cade or more is a matter of common knowledge, and need not be enlarged on hero. There are now galf conrase in the Rocky Mountains, where the rarified mountain nir-I IN OUR PRESENT STOCK OF PIANOS TWO EXAMPLES OF POWER. The late Freddy Tait was, on one occasion, have personally verified this statement-enables playing the final round of the Calcutta Cupa golf ball to be driven at least twenty. yards competition over the new course at St. Au farther with the same exertion, thau in lower A

altitudos Writing as a Scotchman, I may per draws, in which he was required to concede to a tough and first-class opponent like Johnny Low hapa be excused, though not universally pardon- two holes up. At the eighteenth hele Tait was ed, for observing that the practical and hard. one hole down, and found his ball lying in rough leaded race north of the Tweed wars the ärst the grass off a slightly healed drive. His opponent of Colts or Anglo-Saxons, not only to invent GUN PRACTICE at a target, which was was straight on the course, and would probably the game, bat also to realise its social aul to be held on the ND INSTANT, from Stone-hols out in a "bogey" five. The hole is a fairly national advantages They played it years be- cutiers' Istand, bas, been postponed, owing to bad weather, till the 16TH INSTANT, or, if the long one, and Tuit's only chance of winning the fore the, in this respect, glower-witted South- weather is not favourable on that day, till the hole and Julying the match was to reach the rons had even heard of a siblick or a clock, or 18TH INSTANT, NORA

green some 200 yards away in his second from realised the beauties of a patting-green guarded Practice will commence at about 7 W., and

a grasɛy lie. It appeared a hopeless chance by sandy bankers. King James of Scotland, -end at about 9 AM, if the range is clear.

Here the reserve strength of a first-clase golfer we are told, friel to introduce golf into England By Coismand,

F. H. MAY,

came to the rasome. After studying the lie he in order to civilise the savages whom he had Colonial Secretary: took a wooden club, smote the ball absolutely aanerol. But he was somewhat in advance of Colonial Secretary's Ofoe,

tree and hard, through its grassy bed, it soared his time. For it is only lately that these same Hongkong, 3rd September, 1903,

into the air and fell on the edge of the green a" savages" have really grasped the merits of VIEWS OF HONGKONG

fall shot away, whones he holed out in two, did the game. Haring at length done so, it is a the hole in four, halved the match with bis op. pleasing duty to note that they occasionally LLUSTRATED POST

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question Tait had no doubt, without apparent effort, put in that extra force of uria and wrist always held in reserve by a good player, exactly at the right moment, and with perfect accuracy, and thus ultimately landed himself a winner.

Here again is another instance of a master shot. The same player, Tait, in á eimilar com. petition, found himself tackled by a determined youngster af St. Andrews, to whom he was conceding long otila, sad who would not be ebaken off. Half way on the homeward course Tait found himself in a badly hanging his after a somewhat for him-indifferent drive. His opponent, from a good lie, had laid his brassay shot on the edge of the green, and was presti- cally certain of a four. Talt shortened the grasp of his cook, and with a half-swing laid his ball.

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