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BRITISH GOLFERS. “ CHALLENGED BY AMERICANS,
brought poetry back to nature; but ended-Of course. I refer to his serious efforts, such as the 'Cotter's Saturday: Night'; those foolish little amatory songs THREE CHAMPIONSHIPS TO BE
CONTESTED. of his one has to forget told the tain to Henry Taylor that evening, and fayres OBSERVER'S ' his answer was-Burns's exquisite songs and Barns's serious efforts are to me alike tedious and disagreeable reading
thoir own art!"
BURNS IN PLAIN ENGLISH.
CORRISPONDENT. ] Losos, March lat. If present intentions are fulalled, this
"GRAVE SCANDAL,
THE. EMPIRE EXHIBITION AT
WEMBLEY.
The working conditions, price of admin sion, and Sunday opening were among this minor criticisms of time: Exhibition during the report stage on the money resolution increasing the Government's guarantee
to British golf in each of the three cham- of Common's on March 2nd. pionships-the Open, the Amateur," and "Mr. Rondinian (Liberal)"complained-of
I
*
Sir James Wilson has just rendered sh.. the Ladies-and, in the case of the pro- the looseness in the administration of the The Parliamentary Secretary for Over- poems of Robert, Burns in phonetical fessionals, an attack will also be made accountancy. form for the benefit of Englishmen, and on some of the big prim-money tourna also provides translation in literalments, in the hope, no doubt, that the seas Trade (Mr. Samuel), in replying English to make the meaning of the
To a Haggis.
A great engineering scheme, the mere whisper of which might well cause to tura in their graves the bones of the So much for the infallibility of portalin year Amerien will throw out a challenge from £100,000 to £t jonon in the Honas Highland chiefs and clansmen who de feated Argyll at Inverlochy" and follow ed Prisce Charlie to the Cage on Ben Alder, has, as I have already written you, got so far into practical shape that a contract has been closed for the "con struction of what is called "a tunnel phonetic versions quite clear. Here are players will be able to recoups themselves is mentioned that the exhibition would bare" examples of the original, followed by the the matter, of expenses meurred in mak-been shut at one time but for the Duka ing the European trip, Apparently, of Devonshire's public spirit in pledging under Ben Nevis," at a cost of a million phonetic form, and then the translation
those Americans think it well worth the a private fortune; to the extent of and three-quarters sterling. Closer exato plain English:- amination of the facts. so far as they are
outlay of 15 at least to win the Bri£300,000, as-a-guarantee which was sub known, modifies to some extent the ac
tish Championship, which carries with it"sequently ratified by the House of Com curacy of this description of the ehit
the trifling, sum of £76 in cash and a mons as rightly transferable to the tax- the Lochaber
gold medal. Even if you win there is payer. He declared that the Government a debit balance to face of nearly £25, would not accept any further liability. If which, at drat sight, appears to be bad more money were required some cas else would have to come forward with fresh business, not worth the candle
guarantees. Mr. Sammel did not antici- pate that hay profita would accrue.
Sir Alfred Butt, who has since died, described the exhibition as a grave scan- dal, involving much corruption. Ho de manded that a properly audited balance- Hagen calculates that the winning of sheet should be placed before the Govern the British championship means 9,000 ment, showing the whole
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Fair fa your honest sonaie faca,
Great Chieftain of the Puddin-race Aboon thema' ye tak your place, Painch, ripe, or thair; Weel are ye worthy of a grace
As lang's my arm.
Tay a haggis..
Fai: far yur ounist, sonnaie fais,
Grait Choeftin on the Puddin rais! Ubin tham aw yee tak yur plais
Pairch, treip, or chairm; Weel ur yer wurdie on & grais -
Az lang'z ma airm.
English Version..
Good betide your bonest, jolly" face,
Great Chieftain of the Race of Pud-
dings!
Above them all you take your place,
Paunch, tripe, or sausage
Well are you worthy of a grate
As long as my arm.
Bat
it is rather a case of "casting your bread upon the waters" in the sure knowledge that if you should land in the State with the British Cup in your possession a fortune awaits you.
a year to him in playing, and exhibition position, clearly.
lees, end in a hundred and one other
financial
Mr. Samuel read a report of January
ways. Evidently, to be styled the Bra- last year, stating that no corruption had
tish champion attracts a far greater numesceurred.
ber of deltars to one's banking accotine) Sir Alfred Butt said that he referred
Seats. Who Has presents" little dif- than does the tite of United States to the period since the report was issued
fealty
Scots, whahae wi Wallace bled, Scots, wham Bruce has aften led Welcome to your gory bed
Or to victorię.
Sconta, hwaw hay wi Wallace bled Scoats, hwam Bris hiz pafum lel, Welcum tay yar garie bed,
Or to victorie..
Scots, who har bied with Wallace, Scots, whom Brace has often ird, Welcome to your gory bed,
OF to victory!
Un av lang sein
*The reason is not far wo « Mr. Samuel promised to consider a champion. Beek. The American public; regarding reduction in the prices of admission, but to remit the question of British sporting events as the greatest was unable and the finest in the world,, and the win- Sunday opening. ning of them as the hallmark of supreme achievement, are prepared handsomely
to acknowledge in the caly manner werth convincing, golfing styles. Actually, Dun- having a “world's winner returning to can and Mitchell are our only”reni bel their shoresis is somewhat different warks. Each is capable of winning; tha in this country, although the pecuniary tornier, when adequately inspired, and advantages attaching to success in the the latter when not frightened of his awa Open championship are not by any means shadow. The two Whitcombes are our Braid, Taylor, and next best props, and it may be that time
will show that they are the most relig to be andezed at. Vardon have built up splendid connec able They have yet to consolidate iz tions in several branches of the game position only slenderly held, and none by
of their many personal can say definitely how they will fare triumphs in the past, while Havers, who when the forces emerge from their zenSOD- won in 1923, should not bave netted less al inactivity and get to gripe again. than £2,000. DE
теазид
DUNCAN AND MITCHELL,
ME BOBBY JONES'S RECORD.
London comments and headlines, be bored under the top storey of our highest mountain." It would be more correct to say that the conduit will son vey the power-giving current drawn from the upper waters of the Spean by a short cut under the great knees which Ben Nevis stretches towards the north and east, the depth below the surface level being nowhere more than 2,000 feet, or Jess than half the height of the mountain.. Nevertheless, the scheme is one that commands marked attention from the aesthetic and popular, as well as from the engineering and industrial, points of view, and not only those concerned in the production of aluminium and in the local use and distribution of electrical power, mt natives and tourists, salmon fishers and distillers, and the general public, have a right to hold, their own opinions
Auld Lang Syna" is so well-known soneshning is Notice is claimed by the that it is unnecessary to give Burds's For the guidance of wristen version. “Ben Nevis Tannel" in the rat place Englishmen who attend Burns uppers Because it is perhaps the greatest and the phonetic rendering will suffice: holdest engineering scheme of its kind Shid awl aequantuns bee furget,"
Un nivour broukht tay meio? that has been undertaken on this side of the Atlantic, and because it is expected
Of the famous American Amateurs only Fired by the example of Hagen, other Mr. Bobby Jones has so far decided to to afford employment ou and under the
be at compete in the Amateur Championship Lochaber bill to no fewer than 2.500 skill
American professionals will
in. June, mong them at Westward Ho! but is not improb ed and unskilled workmen during the
restwick coming summer. That of itself is an in
Macdonald Smith, who recently won the able that he will be accompanied by Californian championship for the second others, although the grand Attack will portant and gratifying feature in the im-
year in succession. Mitchell and Duncan be deferred until next year when the an mediate prospects of employment and
score of defeated Unitel Staics Walker Cup team In view of the prospect of an early tied for fourth place with a
American amateurs conditions of industry in our country.
return to the gold standard the financial. 313, five strokes words than thte winner's comes to Britain. The bests of labour gathered around the editors of English newspapers are urging total, with W. 1. Hunter, who was misk- have been singularly unfortunate in their bases, and oven penetrating towards the their readers to follow the example ofing his debut in the professional ranks, attempts to carry of the British Cham
Scotland" and to be satisfied with using core, of the great granite mass of Ben Treasury rates for ordinary purposes, occupying sixth place. Of sixteen mat planship, for in the whole of its history.
one years ago at Sandwich-has succeed. Nevis will be only a passing phenomenon. It is obvious that, if every British sub ches played in California to the end of only que-Mr. Walter Travis, twenty- ed. As the world's best golfer, Mr. But they will leave behind permanent jet were to celebrate the rusumption of
cash payments by demanding gold and January, Duncan and Mitchell have won
Bobby Jones will be a very formidable fruits of their labour, both underground refusing to accept Treasury or Bank twelve, lost three, and halved and overground-not only in new vi- notes, the draia upon the gold reserves Curiously enough, their first two matches opponent. For an amateur, who is only
would be so serious as to endanger the
Mr. twenty-three years of age, his record in dence given of the dominance of rau maintenance of the eagerly anticipated were lost to Los Angeles amateurs, over nature; but also in the new powers measure, and the inhabitants of the George von Elm and W. I. Hunter (his the American Open Championship is southern portion of the island are being last appearance as an amateur) beat astounding. In the last five years his left in man's command. On the Lochaber reminded that Scottish experience proves them by one hole at the,, Bacho Club, aggregate scores have been :-1920, 209, Heenery-the grand features of mountain, the gold sovereign not to be a Decessity
of life, even in times of peace. English and Mr. Ervis Armstrong and Mr. Nor-1923, 303; 1999, 299; 1992, 205; 1991, 300.. lake, and river-the tunnel can hardly men have become accustomed to the use man Macbeth were successful by the same in 1923, when be won after a tie with have any injurious effect that is not com of small notes only in the last ten years, margin on the Wiltshire course. Out Cruickshank, his rounda were: 71, 73, pensated for and more by the current and there might easily be a tendency to of wealth and comfort and healthy indus revert to an older tradition and to re of three matches against Macdonald Smith 76, 78; in the previous year when he gard these notes as a war-time expedient and A. Espinosa who journeyed over and John Black were beaten a stroke by Gene Sarazen, Mr. Jones's rounds were trial movement which it promises Buch a tendency would, at all events for twelve thousand miles to compete in last 74, 72, 70, and 73. He was again second Last year. His grand total for the ve carry into a remote and empty sleepy some years to come, be against public year's championship at Hoylake, the Bri- policy, and English editora are right in
It shows hollow" of the Highlands.
insisting
that it will be the duty of all tish pair have won two and lost one, Championships is 1,487, giving an average
acore of 74.32 per round.
ney and precision EURASIANA.
good citizens to continue to be satisfied They have also defeated Bagen and wonderful consistency ofessional or Although this year's Burns celebrations with notes. But it is a curious coincid- Sarazen by 4 and 1, thereby completing qualities which no other so far this country is concerned arojence that, almost exactly a hundred years
degree. And to-day he is the United far past, it is only now that information ago, English Ministers were bent upon a very excellent record of achievement in amateur has ever approached to auch the Scottish pound note and the San Francisco district.
of plesing cycla positively dazzling.
Sir James's book contains a foreword by Dr. D. M'Naught, the famous Burns authority, who says it is intended to enable English speakers everywhere to pronounce the Ayrshire tongue as Burns himself spoko.it.'
SCOTS AND THE £1 NOTE,
NO INCOME TAX ON BETS.
one.
If an American has to win this year's
States Amateur and y
A
that is
It is impossible to the fæet that Mz., Jones's pan- sence at Westward Ho constitutes a real the uninterrupted series of eager to the un
·British successes. The same can
hardly be said of the
their lack in the Ladies Char American ladies who are coming to Troom
Mjes
to
regarding celebrations abroad is reaching eventing Scotland from showing the our shores. January 25th being a Sun- day this year, many churches here bad good example which is now held up for British championship, "it would not sur Burns services. But the Burns atmos imitation on the other side of the
It was a period of financial prise me to find Macdonald Smith depos phere introduced into them could not order.
As a player of shots Smith compare with that of the Burts service crisis-the panic in which Sir Walter ing Hagen.
All Scott was niced and the failure of is the better golfer, but in the matter of in a certain. New York church. the ushers in the church" says an eye- English provincial banks leil to a pro- witness
"were members of a certain posal to forbid the issue of one pound temperament, determination, and fixity
of purpose there is none to approach Pecause no long as" Scots society and all wote kilta. During notes by bankers in either country.-
Hager.
is there to defend the position In the last two championships the service, the bagpipes were played,
for Britain PE need not have the slightest and several Scottish sangs, were sung.
Smith has been beaten on the post, after
fear
that an American will triumph. The minister, who although an Ameri
starting favourite in one of them at the Miss Edith Cummings, Mise Gicha can, had been a student at Glasgow,
and Miss Marion Holling, all entered into the spirit of the service and introduced into the proceedings amusing ing people has been decided in the King's Hagen and Smith form a very dangerous Mr Charenco Vanderbeck are among Miss reminiscences of his student life,"
Bench Division, Mr. Justice Rowlatt hold. In
Barazen, Barnes, and Bobby Cruickshan tho, attack, hut as she is enge of the
Stirling would have recent anniversary ng that a man is not liable to pay in air, and with d. Farrell, Leo Diegol, others who will make the trip. speeches on Buros, a well-known Pro como tax on winning bets.
Graham Mr. Alexander
appealed the late Edinburgh player, to back them. fessor gave Tennyson's judgment on the
to be married to an Ottawa doctor Scottish poet. It was taken from Tenny. against a. decision of the Income Tax
whu son's life," and is of sufficient interest Commissioners.
Miss Cummings and Miss Collett are to be quoted in full. Aubery de Vere 300 in respect of ordered him to "nay up, the American attack at Prestwick her services are not available... Both: young golfers, cach about twenty-one The Judge
of betting transactions.
There is no need to, despair, although years of age. This willies Sho held
Colles' that, apparently, Mr.
of British golf." be says Not less ardent was Teniny. Graham only BOUTCA of income. was it must be confessed that we have less first experience
starting price, betting from
first came into prominence in the Ameri- an incident with no wall significance re- bis home the evidence to the opera to pub up an effective counter-attack. To turned, the best porn in the qualifying,
showing that the than a dozen man who can be relied upon can Championship of 1921, when the tions des
one
contributes some reminiscences, in which
son's enthusiasm for Burns. And here
'curs to me. Read the exquisite songs
of Burns,' he exclaimed. In shape,
An important judgment affecting ruc- seemingly ridiculous odds of 4 to: 12 Co//oons of the postwar period, and
The
d
will be of a highly concentrated natura
Eiven
A serious position take them at random, they are: Dun-atago, two strokes ahead of Miss Cecil In a subsequent tournament at each of them has the perfection of the would arise if a person earning profits can, Mitchell, the two brothers Whitcom Philadelphia, Mias. Oollett defeated in berry in light, the radiance of the dew from some recognised form of industry be, Ray, Havers, Gadd, end Compston turn two British players-Misa Leitch in drop: you forget for its saka thone and having a bad hr bit of betting sys
stupid things, his serious pieces! The tematically might offset his losses against Not a very formidable lot, to be sure, the semi-final, and Mrs. W. A. Gavin in Burn day I met Wordsworth, and named his profits for income tax purposes and some of them, to be quite frank, Collett won the Championship M Burns to him. Wordsworth, praised bim, Betting was an irrational agreement and
even more vehemently than Tennyson had could not be regarded as a traile open with rather course and not altogether flavin again being the victim in the finak
(Continued on'next Column). done, as the great genius who had to taxation.
stage.