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PROFESSIONALS IN CRICKET.
season In view of the fact that the pro- fessionals frequently play a decisive part in the fortunes of a club, it is rather a buld step for the Ayr Club to take, noul the venture will be watched with consider able interest.
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It has frequently been contended that it would be to the advantage of club ericket in Scotland if professionals were excluded! from taking part in matches. The argument is that there is a tendency to rely too much For the first time the House of Commons has heard Mr. Edwin Scrymgeour, prohibi on the skill of the professionals, particular` tion prophet and the vanquisher of Mr. as bowlers and it is suggested that if Winston Churchill at the polls, make a servatur responsibility were put on the amateurs they would be more likely to perch. For eighty minutes he poured out show zert in developing their powers in this of the game. a torren of words-a large proportion of
important department them rendered incomprehensible" by the
Already, of course, there are some good fury into which he worked himself-but not for a moment did he depart from his textmateur trundlers, but they are not a numeroas Luxly in proportion to the batamen the devilish nature of drink and the i
and any murement that is likely to lend mediate" necessity for making its manu
to betterment in this direction is worthy facture and sale illegal save for scientifle and medical purposes, in which case the of attention. A good deal of interest, there- finished alcoholic article would be dispost for, attaches to the decision of the Ayr of in byttles labelles) in large letters poison, Cricket Club to dispense with the services of a professional in their matches this It is exactly the kind of speech in some parts the identical speech that his native Tayside city has had from him for It is also the
of last thirty years. well known in other parts LTD., Scotland. To the House of Commons it was something new. He, of course, achieved nothing towards the end for which healone lives, but he assuredly succeeded in of his uncompromising convincing the House sincerity. One political writer says the fact that the old man is known as "Uncle Ned
Got explained
everything: it is that fatal nickname applied with the toluent kindness that forbears to ridicule a man because of
word figure going over his round with him his utter sincerity. The fact that in the stroke by stroke. His quickness in sensing House of Commons he has introduced a Prohibition bill all of his own invention, sal the situation, the readiness with which he tlar in introducing it he was allowed to trauslaited thought into action, the varying
through which he MUNIS the cluse, could
he passed, particularly bo visualised speak for an hour and twenty minutes, pro bably represent the high water mark of his career, and it is unlikely that-it West- from his terme description of the round.
Duncan can when the mood is there, leave Inquiries are welcome. more will ever minster anyhow-much
all rivals behind, but he can come down to 42 equal heard of him. To those unacquainted with
the level of the ordinary with the almost to. 1 the fact
acility. No golfer cakes strong appeal the
Parliamentary Group, com Clycoside
called the Black Squad, are strict to the onlooker, At his best Duncan docs truly of
For- astonishing things; at his worst he character
des from minority who voted in support of the pro-would drive his friends to hibition measure comes as a surprise. Of tunately in recent years thean the fourteen who went into the Lobby with brillianes have become comparatively rare. When they do occour no one is more sensible Mr. Scrymgeour thirteen were Labour
of them than Duncan himself. He cannot members.
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galleries of Government then had the assistance of various members of the Oppositions, includ. To see Duncan's ahota, however, one must ever be vigilant. He has slowed down in ing several Scottish Labourists who voted
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Of the handful of men who are going to challenge the American professional supre macy in gulf, it looks as if Duncan were our chief hope, One can never forget that whirlwind finish at Shandwick the uncan of and now of Pucndrous re-
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for Prohibition To support cheaper: the one day and Prohibition the next does not appear to accord very well, but those who did so explained that as
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of amking it as cheap as possible to the work, round in: lie played so quickly, that it was ing-classes." The argument may not appentirapossible to count his shots." Even yet to Mr. Serymgeour, but it worried most of those who voted for his Bill into the cheap beer lobby.
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Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St. Andrews, is the recipient of trophy presented by St. Andrasts Golf Club of New York, the oldest golf club in the Unite
of States. The trophy takes the form section of the tree near New York beneath which the first Americans who played golf asseuible before their initial section of one of the larger limbs of the tree, the trophy is intended to be placed en writing table, the idea being that it Skull be' kept at St. Audrows as a per manent memento of the spirit of comradeship existing between
esn the Royal and Ancient and the American clubs. The presentation was made by the American Ambassador, and the Prince of Wales Has arranged to send the trophy forthwith to the secretary of the Royal and Ancient Club at St. Andrews,
RESURRECTING BURNS.
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Duncan is quick enough to justify the compliment that his got is an inspiration. We shall see great crowths presently in the wake of the big men; and, whatever happens, Duncan will have followers. NEW VESSELS.
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a famous film company will release a screen BRITISH TREASURY INSIST version of the rumance of Burns aid High- land Mary, The film is now being prepared, and scruptions care is taken in its produc
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