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A TRUE GOLF STORY.
A THREE BALL GAME IN
ABERDEENSHIRE....-`
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EDINEROH, April'rathi On a certain course in Aberdeenshire three men were playing golf, or trying "And although ́what has to be said of them is all in their favour, they shall be nameless. Their valour varied, as is generally the case when three men each play a ball, yet they were fairly well matched in skill and în temperament.
FIFTY YEARS OF LAWN TENNIS:
AN. OLD-TIME CHAMPION. PLAYER WHO NEVER LOST A SET. This is the Jubilee Year of the Single Championship of Lawn Tennis. It is half a centary ago since. Mr. Spencer Gore won the frat Man's Singles Chan- pionship of the game that had only beca invented a year or two previously.
Many a well-known name has been in- scribed in lettera bf gold on the Cham- pionship Lists kept by the All-England
us at Wimbledon since that day: too many of these names--and some of the greatest-are those of men who are no longer with usi Bat in this "year of Jubilee there is certain to be a gathering nf most of the survivors at the New Wimbledon to witness the battles of the modern giants of the game. Possibly. too, to play the role of laudatores tem paris neti; and certainly to indulge in animated reminiscencr and to fight their ancient battles o'er again.
On that golf course there is a bill of considerably greater elevation than д 'South African kopię. On the top of that hill an all-wis committee had placat a greet and a halt To get on that green necessitated pegotiating the | height of the hill with one stroke, other
wise the ball returned to one's. fect.unique, but never in the least likely to be
(I hope)
Among these "old-timers." will be one who, though wholly unknown to lawn tennis players of to-day, holds Championship record which is not only
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the ball practically returned for There is almost au exact counter. part of this green at Kilmacolm, and a curious thing is that the turf at the foot -indeed, for some feet up-has always a scorched or burnt appearance. The only assumption is that the damage is caused by the lurid language that falls from the lips of aspiring, and perspir ing, but unsuccessful golfers Any man who "gets on these greens in the orthodox way-and some have done so is to be envied and admired. Nearly every man who fails either increases his vocabulary of bad language er nirs what he already poRSCISES.
Well, says Mr. J. 3ine Menzies (who tells this story), the three-ball match in Aberdeenshire came to the much-dreaded bole, and, each player breathing thei name of his dearest for the time being at all events-smote his ball bip and thigh. Now of all the true golfing tales ever told this is the truest. Each ball went proudly over the brow of the hill, and, of course, out of sight. Ireathless, the trio of opponents looked at each other, and then, solemnly and voiceless ly, under one great brain wave, shook slowly and carefully and thoughtfully as a dairy keeper might
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shake the handle of a waterpump.
Looking occasionally at each other From the corger of an eye, they alked abrenat up that hill and towards that bole. They reached the green, and scan. ned it, scanned it, and yet again scanned it. Not a ball was to be seen! In fact nothing was to be seen but a green sward, a sea and sky, and a big tree some 20 yards or more away. Short of the hole, beyond the hole, not a ball of a three-ball game!
As the result of an impressive conier- ence held there and then, it was unaci mously decided that no-ball could have gon through the tree or have lodged in its branches, and that it was an equal impossibility for any ball to have hit the tree and rebounded to remoteness. One of the players with beating heart, thought, "What if--1" Then, Is it possible that- And then, Surely they can't and, whispering to him self, Get thee bebind me Satan," he crept reverently to the hole, when Eureka! there they were All three balls in the hole!
challenged a claim that, in an age avid for one who can fully substantiate it.
AN UNBESTEN · PLAYER.
This player is Mr. P. F. Hadriw. His record, put succinctly, is this. He eater- ed for the Chamionship of 1879 (the second year of its existence); he played and won five rounds in the All-Comers' Singles without losing a set to any of his opponents: he then played the Challenge Round against Mr. Spencer Core, and bent him, also without losing a set. Ho never played again in the Champion- chips. He is, therefore, the only man without losing a set. alive who ever played at Wimbledon.
I was privileged a short time ago to have a long chat with Mr. Hadow about the early days of lawn tennis, and of his own part in them. Particularly I want- ed to know why it was that his name only appeared in the annals of Wimbledon on the one occasion, when he won the Championship. He told me the story of that unique success. Here it is.
A member of the great Hadow family of Harrow and Middlesex cricketers and rackets-player, P.F" on leaving Har row, went out to Ceylon to learn the art and business of coffee planting. In the spring of 1879 he came home on his first) leave; and, quite naturally, one of the first things he asked his brothers was,
What's this new game that everybody seems to be talking about The brothers had not been bitten by the new game; but one of them knew a man who not only played, but was fairly good.
LEARNING THE GAME.
This was Mr. L. Erskine, and under bis kindly auspices " F.F." was initiated into the mysteries of the game on the old covered court in Maida Vale (where afterwards the Renshaw brothers were to open the eyes of London players), and he soon found that bis natural'aptitudo for any game with a "bat" and a ball enabled him to play on level terms with his instructor. A few games on the coarts devoted to the "new game by the the novice made such rapid press that All England Croquet Club followed"; and he thought he would try his Inck in the Championship, which was just com ing ou.
His luck was well in:; it even extended to getting a byc in the semi-final round; in the final he had the satisfaction of Erskine, 6-1, 6-4 6-4. This gave him the beating his friend and tutor, Mr.
right to challenge Mr. Spencer Gore for the championship.
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THE FIRST 7-5 GAME. Over the week-end before the Challenge Round, Mr. Hadow had a bad attack of malaria, and was in bed, with ice on his head, for three days. But he was sufficiently resilient to get up again and to beat Mr. Gore 7-5, 6-1, 97. That 7-5 set, by the way, was the first "ad- vantage set ever played in the cham- pionships; it was only in the "final tie " that the rule of sudden death at Rive games all was relaxed.
Soon after, Mr. Hadow returned to
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A speechless debate took place. Each Ceylon, where he played such tennis as he could get on the rough gravel fats, man read in the other's eye the query" where the coffee was put out to dry " What is to be done about anything so but when he again came home; he felt wonderful? The discovery of Pharaoh's no desire to resume his quest for cham- tomb was as nothing to this! All three pionships, and played, cricket to the exclusion of lawn tennis. Indeed, from balls in the hole! And all approach the day of his winning the championship abots to a blind hole from the base of a in 1878, he has never revisited the old Wimbledon ground, or seen the new one. steep hill Were there no other golfers He should be interested this summer, story of such an experience? Alas are competent to compare the present
with the past.. thero were none none to cast asperaiona:
UNDERHAND SERVICE. none to make assertions: none to reason. Mr. Hadow told me that, like nine out whynene to applaud, to envy, to ad- often of the players of his day, he served mire. But the balls must not be left in underhand, trying to get the ball to the hote if the game was to continue, so break away out of court." He used a heavy, pearshaped racket with a handle the gladdest of the three men stooped bound with bat-string. He was of a and his hand was nearing the hole, when, somewhat remarkable activity, to judge with a spring and a big, big D (ever so from a newspaper cutting he showed me, big), he reached an upright position just which asserted that if Hadow be
mastered the art of Bir Boyle «Roche's like a jack-in-the-box toy, and with open bird." In other words, his anticipa-1 mouth and protruding eyes pointed cast. tion" was excellent. He employed the ward, where the chilling blasts come lob freely and successfully, but he eschew- ed the sideline drive as too difficult, from
because the net was so high at the sides." Following the line of his index finger, (It was, at that time, five feet high at his companions- saw a-blackguard the sides and three feet six inches in the blackguard of a human boy, ecstatically Lacoste pause)
middle-enough to give a Tilden or a dancing on his human feet, and shouting Mr. Hadow still possesses the Cup- with inhuman energy, Ishahri fine silver claret jug which he won on Yah!!! None of them caught the little quent phraseology of the day this was
this occasion. In the rather magnilo
demon, but in talking matters over a described as The Gold Prize." He was pipe later on it was unanimously and for year, the Lolder of the Challenge emphatically agreed that the omission to Cup presented by the Field," and afterwards won outright by Willie Ren- go round the tree when the hill was show. This. Cop, as I have said, he did breasted was very regrettable,
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not defend in the following year; but: in the natural course of events, he must have lost a set, if not a match, sooner or Later, and. so his unique record would have gone. As it is, there it stand- untouched, and for all practical pur- poses, untouchable.
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