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allowed to rush all over the links. The solution of the problem may be a baffling one, but, whatever, it is an attempt must be made to and one, or it will be the inaccessible courses like Westward [PHOM QUE OWN CORRESPONDENT. J Hot which will be, to the players at any raic, the most popular on the rota. EDINBURGH, July 1st.

Whether Macdonald Smith was beaten by The fact that there were so few, Scots the crowd or by his own failure to stand who mattered in the contest for the Open the nervous strain of the sal round We Championship of golf seems rather shall perhaps never know. We may be a nation which thinks sure, however, that Hagen, going out humiliating. to that it invented the game, and taught with the same chance, repairing a 79 la others to play it. As this is not the only win. would not have allowed the crowd game in which our country seems "destin- to stand between him and another vic- ed to take a permanently low place, it tory. Smith, however, mada a great im- is interesting again to ask Why The pression. From the time when he minde truth seems to be that, where money is, his dramatic burst on Thursday after there goli flourishes best. Scotland can noon, and with his new record of 60 not pay its proficients enough to keep wrenched the lead from Barnes, until, be them out of England and not nearly erucked in his last round, he was re- enough to make, them as expert as the garded as a certain winner. He must A number of the come back again and again, just as cleveress Americans.

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All the American players in the Open Championship gave outward appearance of efficiesey. They form a definite plan for every stroke. and they carry it out Liddest, be who leaves this country ia no half-hearted fashion. Tight or on 3rd July for the Anglo-Chinese wrong, the shot was executed according College at Tientsin in the north of Chinn, to schedale. Let us take the case of the was held in the Edinburgh Y.M.C.A. new champion. Barnes, like Macdonald, Rooms, South St. Andrew Street. Smith, spends a great deal of time polish Andrew Stewart, president of the Asso- ing up his golf by hard, solid practice. ciation, occupied ite chair, and on behalf fie will take cut fifty balls, and for hours at a stretch will experiment or a parti- cular type of shot until he feels reason ably certain that he can play it almost automatically. It may be the "quecza" shot: that is," hitting, the ball first and the turi afterwards, the back spin " shot frum varying distances, the "cut" shot into the wind or half a dozen other off by students of Edinburgh University. Tues 11m kinds of strokes that will present them- Leaving the quadrangle in an open cab,

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Waverley Station. Women students followed behind the cab, while at the station - was a large crowd which in- Macdonald Smith has blamed the cluded ministers and sportsmen. In a crowd for his sensational failure. Cer-brief address, Mr. Liddell remarkeď that, tainly in his last round it got beyoud he was going out as an ambassador to no club another country in the great effort for manageable proportions, but could have done much better than Prest the unificution of the world. Before Iruv wiek did on a course, where the fairways, ing, and ringing cheeri, Läddell, stand. narrow and ofttimes converging adding at a window of the railway carriage tremendously to the problem. There was sang two verses of the hymn. Jesus ns big a crowd, one may reenli, at the shall reign." Open Championship of 14 fallowing the famous partnership of Vardon and Taylor. It admittedly upset Taylor more than it did his more phlegmatic Colvin, who was 80 years old just two partner, but Taylor did not rush into the days ago, has been devoting all his time public prints complaining that the crowid to the arrangement of a collection of 102 prevented him from wining. And there letters froud the pea of Robert Louis was an even bigger crowd at the Holder. Stevenson, which he is giving to" the ness-Caven final of the Amateur Cham Advocates Library. Edinburgh, shortly piceship three years ago, with again no to be known as the Scottish National Library. Each one of these, if sold, complaints, from either of the players would realise £40 or £50, and many an The whole problem of crowds on 'golf course on these big occasions is, however, American collector has been at Sir. Sidney to try and tempt him with dollars for now a very urgent one, which will re- quire to be tackled by the Championship one of these treasure. Sir Sidney Luew Committee Golfers should have just as Stevenson intimately, "I remember the cicar a courer as footballers ar tennis first time I met him when I was a young plexes Un courses like St. Andrews, of 29. He was staying in a country Troon, and Prestwick, to which access is so rectory, and Mrs Sitwell, who later he came my wife, wrote to me about him. free, is impossible to restrict admission

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in any way! Sir Ernest Holderness sug. telling me what a genius he was, and ask- gests that if the objection of players to ing me to come down to meet him. That

was my first meeting with this brilliant They are very sacred letters. crowds is to be taken into account and creature, an artist, in letters. But it was cause of that, when I give these to the he agrees that a man who is nervoas or influenced by crowds is put off his game my wife who brought out his talent and library, I shall make a condition that -the only solution is to play all cham- his genius, and it was to her that he for ten years they are not to be published wrote the most wonderful of letters." or copied, for I do not feel that these pionships on quieter courses, where big, Stevenson never dated any of his cor-intimacies should be made public so soon excitable crowds do not gather Taylor goes all out for rio galleries at all, a respondence," went on Sir Sidney. It nfter my wife's death. If I live myself suggestion which provides ideal candi was a habit he had. So none of these I may firint some of them, or certain tions, certainly, for the players, but, one letters bear the date when they were portions of them." Sir Sidney will place fears, hardly to be considered as prac written, though, from the envelopes of all his literary papers and correspond- tical politica. Vardon suggests the con- some of then, I have ascertained the date ence into the bands of one of his dearest struction of a course on which onlookers and have been able to insert that myself. friends, E. V. Lucas, to deal with as by could be marshalled instead of being (Continued at foot of neil Colunm.) wishes."

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