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trial of the golfing abilities of the two content | delegates present at the meeting, but it was! ants, which one round of eighteen holes does thought only right that the leading profes. not supply. It may be that had the delegates at |sionals should be conferred with, and that their the time they passed the innovation of making unanimous, and decided opinion should be in the final round a trial of 30 holes also passed favour of the present, system, will not be that the semi-final stages should be decided by consoling to the older school of golfers. the same extended test; they would have been acting in the best interesta of the amateur championship contests, as the meana whereby to find the premier amateur for the year.
In saying this I am quite aware that many hold the opinion that any extension of the
THE QUESTIÓN OF "ETERNAL JUSTICE”
IN GOLF.
H. I HILTON (Winner of Amatour and Open Championships.) It seems but idlo to say that golf is an uncer tain game, as in all games in which the Anglo-contat might tend to make it mors a trial oflar, where it means much to the successful com Baxon race love to desport themselves, the glorious uncertainty is undoubtedly one of the greatest of their charms. It may be that there are other sports of a national character which can lay claim to grostar degrees of chaus whether this may be considered an advantage or not is a question which is not open for discussion in this, article,--but that there is a great element of chance in the playing of the Royal and Ancient game does not leave itself DOUGLAS LAPRAIH & Co.
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stamina than real golfing ability, but with this I can hardly agree, as one single additional round would make bat little difference. I told a very decided opinion, that a single round of eighteen holes is much more trying to the nerven in a championship than two rounds or 36 holes, The former is a big strain mentally, much more so than a continued match of 30 holes in which a player after having the worst of the argument possibly due to a mixture of bad luck and a few indifferent strokes (to ill-luck all players are liablo), still has a chance of pulling himself to
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An advantage if it did not forma ruch a pro-gether, owing to the length of the game. dominnat feature, in the race for the survival of
au instance may be quoted the rent fual the fittest, such as the annual contests for the round at Hoylaks. Before play commenced it championships, whether it is that restricted to was generally accepted that there was little hu
amateur talent, or that open to all donotween Messes, Hutshings and Frg, but the ro- `minations of golfers, amateur and professional, salt of the first round made it, sppoar that Mr. The object of all championships is to find the Hutchings was infinitely the finer player. He bost player in the field, and if we are to arrive outdrove Mr. Fry, was invariably ucaror in his at a conclusion on this point, it is naturally approachos, and his deadly work on the green Lecessary to eliminato as far as possible the left his opponent no loophole, with the result element of chance. It is not improbable that that the latter found himself no less than eight He was simply outclassed on these romarks will be looked upon as rank holes in arrears horesy by the older school of golfers, bat golf the play in these individual eighteen holes, and in the present day is probably more of a stern bad the contest ended in this round this would
reality than it was in the seventies und eighties, It is still played for pleasure as it was in there days, but the over-increasing number of first
take of mosting each other in open competition, tonds to give the gamo a mors earmast tone.
have been the vordlet handed down to posterity, but, owing to the fact that the players had to continue in the afternoon, the opportunity was had arrived at the opinion that there was little between the two Esalists were correct in their
Dat a championship is a clarapionship, a contest which assuredly has the object of find- log out the best player in the fold, and in oon- nection with the open championship in partion- petitor if he be a professional. It is probably more equitable to all concerned that the de ment of chance should be eliminated as far as possible, and the leading professionals at least have expressed the opinion that four rounds of score play is a good test of ability, and it might be but considered justice that their opinions should be considered before those who have no interest in the competition, except from a tradi- tional and sentimental point of view. I trust the editor of Golf Illustrated will forgive me in referring to a remark of his mado in reply to a strong advocate in favour of the abolition of the stymie which is as follows: " Our cor- respondent makes the common error of suppos ing that the gams of gelt is founded upon the principles of eternal Justice."'
Why is it an error to suppose this? Justice should be meted out in a game as far as in possible, just as it should be in the sterner. walks of life. There are always sufficient na- certainties in the game of golf in thy matter of |bad lies and unfortunate kicks, to do away with any idea of the possibility of eternal justice, but I cannot see that it is necessary that many old traditions should be adhered to merely on a
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judgment. Whereas in the morning round A player of the present day must not rest everything had come off for Mr. Hatshings, in content with being "cock of his own wulk," he the afternoon there was a complots reversal of must necessarily wander farther afield, and form, although Mr. Hutchings still more than prove his value on foreign soit. A golfor's re-held his own in the long raus, the inspiration patation stands on his deeds in open battle, of putting appeared to have coinpletely forsaken and although the seeking of a reputation may him, and the long pufts which in the morning
qustion of principle. In cricket, football, and other pastimes, they are continually legislating I can myself remember the time when in Rugby
sarved to mantralisé tlu gaining of any number f tries by the other side. That was far from justice, but it was the game of our forefathers, Fortunately it did not meet will the approval the coming generation, who promptly arrived at a muro equitable distribution of the value of the points scored. I am quite aware that my views may sound heretical to many who have
ad a longer and more varied experienes than I
be termed mere vanity still there are few golfers round he had been running up within a fowave, but, whilst I do not baliero in making the
who do not cherish the value of a roputation.inches of the hole now stayed some foot from the 7 Even the players of old are not loth, now that
desired haven, and, what was more important, ho COM-they are out of the race for anpremacy, to refer invariably failed to get the second putt down.
to the wonderful feats of their youth. But I am
On the other hand, Mr. Fry, with everything to afraid I am digressing, as the object of this ar-
́gain and nothing to loss, went boldly for the thole is in reference to fortune, or as it is more hole, and the reward for his enterprise was seen generally termed, lock in connection with cham-
in the fact that it was not notil the last héle pionship contests.
that the match was decided in furoar of Mr. Hutchings.
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It was a match truly indicative of the fortune
cate that in any individual eighteen holes the many chances of fortune go a very long way to decile the result,
game too easy. I have very strong opinions on be advisability of eliminating as far as possible the elements of what may be termed artificial chance iu championship contests, that is chance side and apart from the ordinary rua of Tortuus in the play through the green
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To consider first the ama- tour ovent decided by match play, I think that there is a greater element of chance in this than in the open event decided by stroke play of putting, and the advantage of a 36-hole Firstly, we have to consider the lack of the
match over a single round of 18 holus. as a draw, an important factor, and all the more in-
test. The former givos a much better chance portant on account of the manner in which the
Он of the players fading their natural Jurel. draw is now condneton, as the powers that be the day's play at Hoylake it, is generally con decide that in case the number entered naçessİ•
ceded that the man who played the better golf tates a cortain number of playors receiving proved successful, but the wide variance in th byes in the first round, and that all these bygsresult of the two individual rounds tend to indi. should be placed in the top half of the draw, There is a certain advantage is not being asked to compete in the first round, but in my opinion it is not so much in this that the advantage lios as in the fact that there are an unequal
I not quite aware that the majority of thos aumbor of players in the two halves, and in who take an interest in the game consider that consequence, by the law of averagos, more good the manner in which the autour event is de players in the bottom than in the top. As an
cided is infinitely more interesting and enter. instance may be quoted the recent champion-taining than the four rounds by asore play, by ship at Haylake, The top half of the draw em- which one finds the vietor in the open event. braced 40 players es against f4 in the bottom The latter method appears comparatively cold, | half, which means in the ordinary course of blooded work. Slagging round for two days ¦ DIRECT FROM THE FACTORIES,
events, that the player who succeeded in wad-against the unseen truly is quito contrary to ing through the bottom half would necessarily what is termed the old spirit of the game, but baye moro first-class players to account for than is it necessary that we should slavishly adhore the survivor of the top half. As it so happened to all the traditions of theold spirit? The game in Hutobinga, the survivor of the top half was of golf is match play, or cortainly was match not so fortunate as to obiaiu a bye, and his play, and it may be that competitions by se re
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quently far from an easy one, but we have only to compare the cases of Moare. Robb and Fry, who both reached the penultimate stage. Me. Robb, in the top half, obtained a bye, and his victims were Mosers Juhu L. Low (who was far THE Well-known & Commodious Steamship from his old self), J. G. Craik, C. E. Gilroy, and F. P. Crowther, jan. Mr, Fry, in arriving In a similar position, bad to account for Messrs. F. McKenzio, C, Leathart, f. E. Laidlay, and II. I. Hilton. True in the first roand he received a walk over, still there were 32 players on the point at the Inte Open Championship CALL IN AND SEE WHAT WE HAVE. in the quarter in which ba was drawn, as meeting they unanimously decided that they agaïvat 16 in that in which Mr. Robb Jook part. | considered that the pressut method of desiding
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I EIGHTEEN HOLES A RELIABLE TEST OF PROWESS ? But there are other elements of fortune in the amateur championship beside the luck of the draw, and to begin with I believe that. I am far from alone in thinking that one round of Sauretary.eighteen holes is not a fully reliable test of tim (2878 golfing abilities of two players. It is too abort a duel to give a player who has had to put up with the worst of the lack in the initial stages un opportunity to recover, as there is much to, contend against in golf in the matter of bad lies, stymies, &c. In proof of this it is notice- able that during recent years the play in the final round of the tournament has been extend- ed from 18 to 38 holes, those responsible for the extension no doubt thinking-and probably wisely too that the final of a championship is. of sufficient importance to warrant a thorough |--
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