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SCOTTISH SPORT. MR. WETHERED'S VICTORY:
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EDINICER, May 16th. Cricket is perhaps, fortunate in that it Mr. Wethered's claim to the title of is never likely to be the occasion for such Amateur Golf Champion is supplied in full scenes as accompanied the final tie of the measure by the superb quality of his golf. Association Football Cup at Wembley. The in the Anal rounds. Finer play in the crowd that swamped Lori's en that memor concluding stages of the Amateur Champion able and melancholy
June
11th, 101,
has seldom, f ship
been witnessed; too would have felt itself
In often, indeed, the standard of golf, out, such the Stadium, and figures
quite "that are
has fallen to the level of occasions
brilitact normal for an afternoon's league game in mediocrity. This was a the wister
in the cricket season,
detively lonely in
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ogy, and which apparently stands age held fairer prospect of
the for the curious fact that under otherwise
Wise the top.
may not 829 maining similar circumstances a man will behave wonderful record of, Mr. John Ball's eight entirely differently as an individual ausias but in the new generation of players that as victories in the Amateur Championship Our crowd. a member of a
cousins across the
with that thoroughness have arisen since the war Mr. Wethered which characterises all their activities, have stands out pre-eminently as the pan beat on this fact, and organised it. A qualified by his combination of power and friend of mine who was visiting Anteria 're-skill, allied to a fine golfing temperament LTD.cently told me that he was taken to witness to go on winning now that he has begun.
and Vale found the blocs-of-violent and vociferous partisans, who "rooted" systematically and under Robert Harris was one of the surprises of experienced friends, but loudership not only for their the Championship, and it seems to have against the foes. Early in the come to him quite unexpectedly just when Was fortunately game he was so ill-advised as to applaud a practice play began. He fine
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When in doubt about your eyes
or your glasses Consult
Fon Vale to criticism, demo at
any ordinary golfer, but Wethered
sitting as he was in a Har that was with Willis Mackenzie, who took sarul blog it was his businwas to
him the full round before he was shaken off Harris's play in the final took nothing from Harvard and to confine his
orbis reputation. I would have served him 67,
open derision. Fortunately, we in
have not as yet.rg
reached such a pitch of or ganisation: the schools match at Lord's does indeed, provide its incre or less homegenous lumps of light and dark blue, but even here we are witnessing something of a reaction.
THE VALOUR OF IGNORANCE.
Fortunately, cricket does not lend itself to that worst of all forms of barrack
on the last day was extraordinary. Anc kenzie was one of the big successes of But for an unaccountable the week. waywardness in his driving towards the his round with Harris he would assuredly have played in the semi-final, and might easily enough have contested the last red, With his appearance in stagewith Weth. the International, when but for missing a two green he would have tied with
ing-the abuse of the opponent for unfair feet put on the trend. Mackenzie L)-
play-though there were occasions two years ago when Gregory was most unfairly together added greatly to his reputation, and attacked for some absolutely legitimate, bis place in the British team was never very fast bowling: while the funeri orig of the much in doubt. John Wilson was also
at Notting
rug notable success in the International, when very unfortunate incident ham
at the closs of last sensus was the he beat Tolley, and he should have beaten crow's unwarrantable assumption that
but for a fatal inability to judge
the howler was deliberately wanting the first round of the Chame
at · Lord's-
Even the members
hia mashie shots with the wind, now for Burely one of the most
st impartial if critical the Brst time behind him, at three of He, too, however, audiences in the world-was once startled the last four holes.
far out of its habitual decorum, when. was always a certainty for the British
Had he passed through that in Varsity match of 1896 and before team.
"His, fur. the alteration of tho
rule, he would have gone "follow-on
Smith, made a successful Mr. Shine, under instructions from his R. H
le captain. bowled twelve rane with pionship debut.
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three fast and wide full-pitches to leg, terpulionait for a start, but he took
the draw in having to take on a British
W. B.
prevent Oxford from following on. The result was a scene almost without parallel: mam
hal him fighting almost hope. bers in the parition
with
s back to the wall in the end. the
Light Blue eleven was recieved with a lessly,
left the Seld. But W. 1. Hope, of Turnberry, was the discovery storm of abuse
He played against the subsequent alterati
of the lampionship. of the rule proved
Bernard Darwin in the International four that right was on their side.
somes, and Darwin confessed that as an Englishman he saw too much of Hope, he tinies for a place in the British team. immediately, however, nominating him His position strengthened as the week ad- vanced, atid when he put oat Rotan and took Tolley to the eighteenth green there was
himed and 'booed, and hole extree the full round and one i
Such incidents, which are not without their Paralich in Australia-witness the deplorabic seane when Clem Hill was run in the brat Test Match at Sydney in 1903-are happily nure; but of late year there seeing to have been growing ten- dency on the part of cricket crowds to ho
out
come more
less
ju
Precitively partisan, and to be no more doubt about it. Douglas Grunt was.
of good
only of play the
auta al that chances. His victims included, Holderness Had be done. Do a lange proportion
and Harrison Johnston. of Sarrey supporters shoul go to the Oval primarily to see more that was a good week's work, but he Hobbs and Sandham bat, butahat is no went on so strongly that we wanted to forget rouson why an advere decision, given at he was a native not of this country but of their expense should occasion, as it some America. times has, abuse of the umpire who has giver or of the man who has
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120 always most to distaies for an aggregate of only
tah was the A feature of the match was ignorum It is for this new
reason that one runs.
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schoolment's performance was a meritorious ly wearisoma enough. But there are seen
A margin
of three stors when a fine batsman is faced with Edinburgh University the victory over Gala, runs served to give. two accarate. bowlers оп A difficalt wicket- situation from which the con- Ferthshire though giving a brilliantall-round noisseur among spectators probably derives display, only succeeded in drawing with the
but which nowaday's
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In the Western Union, Ass, Greenock, only too often, provokes derisian and abuse
Kilmarnock West mised from an ignorant minority. More than Uddingston,
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standard of batting is the height to which
a strenuous' re- cord by aiding the Glasgow Charity Cap to
the ball is hit into the air. Fortunately, their League Championship, they defeated
our county cricketers, and especially the the Queen's Park by 4 to 0. The amateurs professionals, are splendidly tolerant
of
such incidents, but they do not ranke, for of the Queen's were dead tired of their the good of the gams, and are discredit strenuous season they have had no holi able to the county ground on which they days or rest weeks as is the case with the
of the professionals the Rangers. occur. For the remody-and the only re
The Rosebery Charity Cup was won by in the hands of the crowd Heart of Malothian after a stout fight with medy-lice whole, whose good-feelings and appreciation of the true values, in the game should bo their enough to stifle such exhibitions at birth,
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port accorded to it by the general public minimum of apparent effort that makes The spectator, then, has a very good right Hobbs and Woolley the favourites that to be considered, and, as a general rule, his they are. The appeal of the bitter is demands are reasonable and based upon a obvious, but here, alas, the modern apectator -fair-appreciation of the game. He loves is badly off; there is no Jesson or even an good Belding and
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Mr.
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