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SCOTTISH SPORT.
THE GOLF INTERNATIONAL
BRITISH TEAM'S COLLAPSE,,
[FRO OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT]
was won by
the
male,
yeur,
even,ving fished the round
THIRD CLASS PASSENGER TRAVELLING FIRST CLASS. AN AMUSI
RAILWAY. INCIDENT.
Awriter in a Service journal tells the following amusing story:
How difficult it is to fully understand what is in the mind of one's fellow man, and how almost impossible to determine what are the idens and principles which actuate him!. On one of the lines of the Southern Railway four passengers assem
led in a first-class non-smoking compart ment. As soon as the train started, one of these (an American from his speech) produced a big black cigar, cut the point, and, applying a match, ignited it.
EDINBUDOR, May 23rd After a contest which until the last lap promised to yield the happiest results for British golfers the American team at St. Andrews successfully defended its claim to retain the Walker Cup That the victory
the
arrowest possible mar to five-only accentuates que sense of disappointment in the failure of the British representative first the honours from their The British tea unlike chat of last
had few critics: the selection was nimost as good as. him another passenger addressed himself, have been
and with the historic pointing out that they were in a non- Stor smoking carriage and that he objected to Course Old
of St. Andrews
the
The smoker simply eyed his scene of the "encounter, not to mehsmoking. tion the prevalence of climatic condi- interlocutor and increased, rather than God's of a kind much more commoul
diminished, the volume of pungent smoke. ས་་ British than to American golf, our he was producing from a particularly mon entered upon
their task with some ad. strong weed.. Time passed and, although vantage. A of three quatches to one the 'speaker varied his address from the on the first day's play by foursomes en strictly polite to a more forcible expres couraged the liveliest expectations of ulion, he got nothing but a stars in reply. timate victory, and brighter still was the At inst, losing all patienes, he remarked, prospect when at the end of the first round. We are now getting into a station, and single matches on the second day I shall make a report of your conduct to British players werę " on their ponents and the remaining three had at least the officials." Still silence from the smoker antil. Es the train drew up at the pint- the qualified satisfaction, of not being form, he suddenly opened the window
down,"
had only to held their advan and called a railway inspector who har tage to win comfortably: bat in the final pened to be near.
Until:
Say, stationmaster," he remarked, Jit vanished round it was whittled
here's a third-class passenger trawilling) the Americans were practically entirely presented with an unexpected victory.
first, and I object to his company" The Had the play of the Americans in the inspector demanded the protesting pas second round of the singles been as brilliant anger's ticket, which proved to be third-
, for instance, was Jr.
was Mr. Cyril Tolley's on class, and immediately ordered him out the outward half of the course, which he of the eagringe, claiming also exces, fare covered in 34 strokes, the explanation of the defeat of the British team would not have that portion of the journey accom- plished. The American remained smoking been far to seek; but, however unpalatable with his head out of the window, an in- it may be, une can only
describe this co-
terested spectator as the ejected passenger spicuous failure to a deterioration of the majority of the matches at the moment paid up. Then, as the train 104 out of the station, he closed the window and, when the victory for Britain was almost as
leaning back in his corner, smoked more The Americans were probably sur- sed to find themselves on the winning contentedly than ever. · side, after having had the worst of the Thereupon, one of the remaining pas- contest until near its close. It will be sengers, who had been following the difficult to convince the vast numbers of entely with interest and who had appre- golfers who awaited the result with some ciated the elever way in which the tables confidence that the British team has not had been turned, asked Excuse me! I thrown away a fine opportunity of captur- must say you handled, this little matter ing the Walker Cup. While the Americauvery shrewdly: but do you mind saying delighted how you knew that your friend" wns & invaders would have been to win our amateur championship--and it third-class passenger 1" "Guess that's is largely due to Mr. Wathered that they easy," he answered The boob had his failed to
to achieve that distinction-they tickat sticking out of his vest pocket, and have successfully defended their titla
I saw it was the same colour as mine!" team to international honours, will take across the Atlantic for the first time the St. George's Cup which Mr. Urinet won at Sandwhich. The next task
certain to be
away
Bod
they
in
of British golfers will be to endeavour to win back the open championship, and although Walter Hogun was defeated in the Leeds tournament by H. C. Jolly, a young English professional, America
formidable rival a few weeks hence at Troon. Four rounds of string play is a different proposition from even 36 holes under match conditions, and across the Atlantic guilars
are ored to the card and pencil code BRITISH FAILURES AND SUCCESSES
What of the British team! Tolley and
PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.
BRUNNER MOND.
The following it from the Daily Herald London): in private ownership, for the pronts of No wonder Sir Alfred Monil believes the firm with which his name is agaceiated, for the year ended March 31st, are a re cord. The profits amount £1.650,995, as' compared with £1,022,000 for the pre-} vious year, and the dividend on The Wilson can have no Pogrots. Both did all | Ordiñary shares is increased from 8 te that was required of them, though both 11 per cent This rate of dividend, is Hinished on Saturday with little enough to equivalent to 271 per cent,, because în 1918 spare. Wethered, too, was very good both thres fly-paid shares were given as a days, and on the last round held his own bonus for every two Ordinary shares against the most brilliant golf of the day. held. When the young German and the He should have been dormie three but, miss-
ing a golden chance, be found Osimet's young Swiss who, in 1879, started a busi- nea together in this country, and built pace too hot, Murray played good throughout, and fully justified his selection. tific discoveries of the former, they little
up a wonderful undertaking on the scien Holderness was a similar case. With Hope,
SOLF
of the Americans, and was only taken in 1918 the Baxton Lème Firms' Company,
holes.
surprise at the last
was
he was the here of the one big thrill the foresaw the extent to which their descend- foursomes produced, though he played butants would extend it by financial oper indifferently all that day. On the last day
day ations in the shape of absorptions and he was the Holderness again of the Prust amalgamation. In 1916 the company ne wick Championship. held his own quired the Armonia Soda Company, in against one of the best on the day's form 1916 the Castner-Kellner Alkali Company, three and in 1930 the Electro-Bleach and By. There was a feeling after his Products, Ltd., to mention only some of play that he should stand down their acquisitions. The company is taking for the singles, but his golf on the final day powers to issue to its ataff and workpropie was probably $5 good as
s any substitute up to £100,000 Ordinary shares, without would have played although his finish, has having to offer them first to existing been said, was unfortunate. Mackenzie shareholders. The idea is, presumably, to Hope,
Harris, and othe
was dropped give those employed a chance of buying for the singles, were:
were the failures of our
or some of the shares in a co-partnership team. With MacKenzie and Hope it
.it was largely a matter of putting, yet their break scheme, and seeing that the capital con- down in this important department of the site of 40,647,041 in Ordinary sharee, garue was complete. A good many thought with £4,000,000 in 73 per cent. Prefer Harris should not have been playing in the ence shares, any shares held by the work- singles... John Caven, who was selected for ers are not likely to play a preponderat the team but was not asked to play, could ing rôle. hardly have failed-Pain Harris did on ing the gigantic profits of this chemical it at the The conclusion one comes to after study- lowest-to play better than the final day ft is easy, however, to be octopus is that, if you happen to have a wise after the event, and Harris might great and successful genius for a father, have struck his best form just as Holderness who, in partnership with a clever com- did,
mercial man, builds uple big and prosper. ous business, you can easily believe in the There have been more than the usual bentits of private enterprise. To do a pumber of surprises in cricket, particularly great chemist justice, it should be added in, the Scottish Counties Championship that the late Dr. Ludwig Mond was a Clackmannanshire showed a brilliant re-paiolic spirited man, and that instead of covery and smota Aberdeenshire to the tune cutting down facilities to the public for of 194 for seven against 129 for six and drew. Stirling County did better,
visiting our national treasures, be left the smurt win -190 for 8 to 97. In the Western Union pictures to the National Gallery, besides Championship, the features of the week bequeathing £20,000 to the Academy of vere the Success
cess of Poloc against Kelburns Munich for scholarship, £60,000 to his old the recovery of form by Clydesdale University at Heidelberg, and 20,000 to shown in their match with Ferguslis, his birthplace, Kassel; but he left us his Ureenock is the only unbeaten aide.
CRICKET.
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games, this time beaten in two successive
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PERPETUAL PENSIONS.
Mr. Isaac Foot asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the House of Commons,
recently, if he would consider the ability of commuting the perpetual pen- so, now being paid in respect of dis tinguished services rendered to the nation- more than a century ago.
Mr. Baldwin said the Treasury, were always rendy to commuta perpetual pen- sions il terms could be arranged satisfac torily from the standpoint of the tax- payers
Chancellor
Mr. Foot asked if the Chancellor was aware that the country had already paid, Apart from interest, £850,000
respect of
battles fought over a century ago, and if: he did not think these services had by this, timo been amply rewarded."
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