ENGLAND IN KHAKI.
How an Americna Views Us,
To the New York Outlook Da meira Taka (Mrs Kenneth Brown) contributes the following
artice :-**
them. It is all in the day's work, and those who have not escaped unhurt are the unlucky ones, that is all.
On the next day we went to the Military Control Office to try to retrieve our papers and passports, The smart young officer who had captured car papers on the previous day attacked them con scientiously, and finally permitted
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, AUGUST. 4, 1917.
FOR GOLFERS.
The Uphill Lle.
room of the Adelphi Hotel, in on to Greece. Our passports and i which comes from "a race which soldier. In a carious way the eiduously though green-keepers to catch the ground.
I took my seat, not quite know. ing whether to like the frivolous gaiete all around we or to resent it. We had imagined England at War to be sericus and sober-mind ed, not bent on making merry,
and
It would be sacrilegions to sa-
with the men when, behind the military in the aspect of the men,
For an apbill lie, my own courage this kind of deepcilment, barrage fire, they advanced to in spite of their uniforms; they
method is to stand a little more but it in as well that zolform storm the enemy trensbee. We are merely Britishers in the ser-
behind the ball than in the ordin-shald know the possibilities of had of course read most of this, rios of their country, and wearing How to Play Difficult “Lies
ery way so as to avoid digging cutting through the top of the but it is not the same. From theas the British are no fond of
into the turf in front as the ball turf fast slicing the grams of. lips of those two youths, one's doing the garb best suited to
is hit. It is easy to come into where it protrades from the few years older than the other, their occupation.
Many people in Amerios sin- Below we give the third of contact with this rising ground, ground) when the ball is slightly one of a different clues from the other, we heard about it from two carsly believe that if the youth of series of articles on golf, contri-You are at the bottom of the arm of opped. It is no use trying to you stund forward, as some people wie; the ball will not riss far different points of view, eash a nation is trained to defend its bated to the New York Evening the swing at the improt, and ifsip right into the cup with a applementing the other. They country that nation will become Post by Barry Vardon:→
do for sa apbill lie, the position enough to go a considerable dist sotore of the grim Prussianised. Such people should Golf is played in a setting of A little after four in the after-u to go on to London, volunteer were the
Over vast expanses of of the body will tend to keep the ance. But the club in question. noon the day we landed I betook ing the opinion that we should drama being played in France. visit England now when every astare
or a little more behind the bail second-long enough, at any rate, myself to the large, attractive probably not be permitted to go They talked with the freedom man under forty-five years is a cochtry, and it is sertain that, aclub-bead low for a fraction of a can be taken if you sim an inch
go through. Liverpool. Even before I reach credentials he was to forward to he lived in a democracy for English are gentler, less milit-may work to secure equability of
aristic, than ever before. And conditions, they can never pro- It is very interesting to play on
When the Cup is Serious. ed it I could hear the gay a neic the Home Office, which would de generations.
We learned that the English this impression that one gets en duce each a state of uniformity as course where one hardly over
When the cap ie serions you and the chatter. It wae already cide our fate. The captain wi so filled that there was not a table mach lese severe than he had prefer the French bayonet to their passant becomes a certainty when will result in every shot of a has the same kind of stance for
on the own, because it is longer and one talks with one's friends who particular kind meeting with a two shots in saccession. A golfer naturally select an iron club, and who thinks he can always adjust then it is a question as to whether vacant. "Undecided, I stood lock been the day before ing at the throng of smartly steamer. He seemed to be satis alenderer, and not seliable to get are non officers. On a Sunday standard fate.
"Ah, but we have we were invited to take lancheon Nor would it be well if they his stance to the requirements of you should out through the turf dressed women and khaki-clad fied that the safety of the British track in use, men. An river in kilts, seated Empire was not endangered by a lovely knife for trench work!" at an officers' mess, somewhere could do so. Part of the joy of the situation; the chief points to behind the ball or "tab" at the slope at a table near the door, rose, our presence, and treated us with exclaimed the corporal, and the in Sussex," & few miles from the game is the piquant deabt remember are, as I have already bell by coming down on to back called the girl who served, and the affability which an English-lance corporal, who had all his London, by a friend who is a which it is constantly provoking stated, to stand behind the ball of it just below its centre and Directly we have hit a shot and for an uphill lie and forward for atopping the club at the impack. with her. man displays when once he de parphernalia with him, brought captain. Rpoke a few worda
one forth: It was of a "loveliness" The house was fall of officers, et forward in the direction of the a hanging lit. Of British chart depends on which method you Then he joined another tablefalcides to unbend. of officere, while the girl, in her Our right' delay in Liverpool to cause us to abudder. We all most of whom had seen active ball, we start to wonder in what pionship courses, Deal gives a far fancy. One thing is certain : pretty naiform, came to me and had given the Government admired it, and handled it, and servios in the trenches, yet the manner of lie we shall find it. bigger variety of siences than I the lie is uphill as well as said that I might have his chance to raise all the railway watched the soldiers as they absence of militarism was the Will it be capped or sitting up or any other, but it is recognised as Cuppy, you must stab, because; showed us how it should be used. most noticeable thing about hanging or on an incline? There one of the fairest tests of golf in the if you try to go through, the ris table. She carried him his tes, fares in the Kingdom fifty per at all the while I was conscione them. Essentially the English is no other game in which these land. I ́s undulations are not quite ground in front will obeck and then went for mine. I look cent, while reducing the number
To effect the stab, which is ed over to the officer to thank him, of trains. Thus more men were that, in spite of their two years are sportsmen: they give their questions arise, and it is because to numerous as those of the Braid the alch and wreck the shot.
freed for the army, and coal was fighting, in spite of what those services, their blood, their lives, golf has so much of the primitive Pills course at Edinburgh, which bot be gave me no chance.
economized without a falling two bore bed ceen, they remained to the mother country when she about it, in spite of all the science cave Andrew Kirkaldy, the S1. virtualis a shot that brings the untouched by the brutality of needs them; to their work, their that is applied to it, that it has a Andrew's professional, very furi-blade of the iron down between of reveone.
With the fare from London to bloodabed. Their faces remained pursuits, and their aporte when fascination which ie peculiar ously to think on the occasion of the back of the cap and the ball, and eo causes the latter to rise, it almost eleven bocest and human. When the she does not need them. We did among pastimes. We know when his first visit to is. Half way Liverpool now
Playing? besied grip. You have to make dollare, Erst class, and the second lance corporal smiled, his face no hear the clink of the sword, we have struck a shot well, and round, somebody asked him how desirable to practice a fairly re- clase non-existent, we prudently was lighted up by a light sweet as we used to hear it in Germany we feel that the ball ought to be he was playing.
How d'se think the ball spring up, and you can- and there i was, the only women decided to travel third, and it was and tender. How unlike the in peace time. Above all, there lying favourably, but there is al. echced. present in a traveling gown, or a decision we shall always be glad faces of the Germans we had left was a total lack of military arro-ways the chance that we shall should be playing? I'm ro' a-not do that if you hold very behind in America-Germane gance, an absence of any tendency have to take some untoward con- goa:!" Report 88581bst in the tightly. It is just at the impact rounded by women dressed as for we made.
Baddled over a newspaper in who had not done any fighting to disregard the rights of civilians, dition inte secount, 8 milarly, afternoon, Kikaldy took out with that the grip must see prior a holiday. Meditatively I aipped
ordinary firmness. If you try the my tes, all the while examining one corner of car compartment but whose expressions since the The feeling between <ficers sad from an indifferent shot, we may him a large slab of tari in order to that you can hold with the shot and imbas your mind with" the faces of the men in khaki, sat a youth in khaki. A scrap beginning of this war have under-me as of the best. In England find the situation of the ball an- to level up some of the stances.
I do not believe that, but I do the principle of the stab that the men in kilte, and the men in of pink cloth was sewed on his gone & curious change; their lips it is a breach of the law for an expectedly pleasant.
In the course of a cand, the remember a very cute dodge to comes down behind the ball and those hideous-long trousers made shoulder and there was a ribbon carl in a snart of the fox or the officer not to return the salate of of huge plaids, which look as if on his breast. Opposite me was walf, the snarl of the mouth that a private, while in Germany the lack in this respect is generally which he reverted when eight of stops at the impact, you will find mother had taken her shawl and an old gentleman with a book, sughed when the Lusitania was rank and file saluted as to god- fairly equally divided, and I have us took part in a tournament on that naturally you loosen your made a pair of treasers for her and facther on was a young wo sank, the Germans who made as like beings who could not be never heard of a good golfer los Lord Dudley's private course at wrists as you hit. If you were. targets for their soldiers fair expected to deign to return the ings match or a medel competi- Witley Court, in Worcester. It not to do so, you would break the
sbeer breechesless boy. At the table man,
tion through
misfor was mid-winter, and snow le shaft. Probably it is the sab- salute. Over the luggage racks were gures of English, French, and
tune in the matter of his lies.eeveral inches deep upon the conscious realisation of this fact: Dearest me east four extremely
Daring lanchean I sat between young looking thinge in khaki, war regalatione. One said that, Belgian soldiers. One face alone pink of complexion and with owing to Zeppelin reide, the car among the Germanal know stande
There are times when there is boyish curvee to their lips. Un-tains of the compartments must apart from the rest. It is that of a doctor and a captain, both of Bat I dare sy that many a perground. Every ball became as that produces the relaxation. class, and I could hardly imagine other was addressed to the men an her face has passed from one/service in France. Had neither quite well enough to win, has Kirkeldy was then instructor to nothing for it but to trust to one's mistakably they were of the better be drawn down after suneet. The a woman, and since the war be whom had seen several months on, playing moat of his shots slippery sa slippery could be.
been beaten because of a lack of Lord Dadley, and wanted to do instinct: ajadaptability to secure them anything except "public in the service, and enjoined them ad expression to another; her of them ever school" boys who had now gone to refrain from talking on military eyes are the eyes of sorrow, and could bot have beer gentler and knowledge sa to how to set in especially well in this competition the best possible position for certain situations. Be it rememe he did so he hit apon the playing on acusaal abot. I re- on 10 Saadbaret to prepare for the and naval effaire in order that her lips are tremulous with tra-
otherwise than well poised on a with oil and robbing the ball Field having to go down on to I noticed that one had a bit of formation to enemies of. Great euceasca and victories; she one but of France; her grit and deter level piece of turf, there is need into his faithful henchman's locks with knees in order to get at a real war; but, on closer scruting, they might give zo possible in- gedy. She never talke glibly of achievements they said little bered that when the ball is lying idea of annointing bie caddie's hair member on one occasion at Mair mination, they could not for consideration as to what before playing every bole. That ball which was lying close up to enough. ribbon on bis breast, the ribben Britain. Notwithstanding this Iffers but then she is half Eng
lish by blood.
special steps shall be taken to scheme undoubtedly saved him which indicates velour in the whispered to my husband to enter
Months before this trip, in write
It is now nearly three weeks deal with it.
lot of strokes. field. He looked so yonug that into conversation with the khaki
Case, however, perhaps it would one felt as if he could hardly have led next to him. My husband is ing of the various armies I had sinos we came to London. The
Playing the Cuppy Lie.
have been better if I had stood in finished the milk and bread-and- frightfully Anglo-Saxon about seen, I remarked that those of Savoy, where we are staying: The Propir Stance for Hanging
A coppy lie calle for at least a the banker and recoveted br butter diet of the English nur-speaking to people he does not England and of Greece had teems with khaki-clad figures and know, "I don't know what to track me as anachronistic, so with others in the blue of the
That is just what the average few moments' consideration, since playing back. Sometimes, in a The music started a melody asy to bim," he whispered back, civilised were the faces of the navy, sa do the streets; yet never from a comic opers, and the de- Ask him what that bit of pink men, so little did the armies look before have we felt the British player does not appreciate. Galy there are two ways in which the bazard, it is worth while rememe corated infant leaned forward on his shoulder means," I arged.like killing-machines. They were people so little errogant, so little when his ball is in a bunker or a shot may be tackled. When the tering that one is entitled to re At the question the boy good. composed of men who thought of manifesting the more objection- ditch does he realize that bie ball is only slightly capped, it is trace one's step; nobody likes it, and began to sing the words sotto voce for the benefit of his three maturedly stopped his reading game sad of booke, not of rapine able British traite. It is not that stance Rod manner of hitting must just as eser to cat'through the but occasionally it is the easiest companions. They were having and explained that it indicated and corquest; and I had said they are trying to curry favour diffst from the ordinary if he is to tarf behind it in order to get at and safest way out of the trouble that they would fight as well as with Americans, On the con. get well away. There are little the object as to made a direct especially when there is a good chany stroke at it. This shot, be it said, chance of reaching the green with such a jolly time that I began to his battalion. wonder whether England really "And that scrap of ribbon on the bora killera when the grim trary, the general indifference to traps for the unwary st
necessity arose. Thees two young American public opinion is almost parts of the course. They are can be played with a brassie al the next shot..
found in the variety of lies that though many golfers imagine A ditch is another painful place." we inquired. grasped the seriousness of the your breast?
fellows in Our compartment calpable, considering the cease-
a that when the ball is in even the of retribution. You may have to war she was engaged in. There, Ob," he answered, reddening proved to me bow right I had leas propaganda that Germany is every geller encounters on was no evidence of it in the whole "that's just the military cross."
And what did you get it been. Yet their natures were not carrying on in the United States, course that is not so fit and slightest indentation, it is uselesstand with one foot in it and one to think of deing a wooden clabout, or in some other uncomfor tea-room. Every one was gay,
There is much difference of All that is necessary is to sim sa table way. There is only one. every one was laughing and cheff. for ?" we persisted, with American 150ge, and they spoke of the They are just naturally kinderfestareless as to be dall,
war in terms of sport, and it was sad politér, sad the sacrifices iog. Presently three khaki inquisitiveness.
Bombing," te
as a sporting proposition that they are making for their country opinion as to the best way to inch or two behind the bell, the golden rale to observe when the -replied, figures came in; one, white faced
they regarded it. What they are making better hamsa beings stand for uphill and hanging lies. distance in the rear bring gov ball is badly in a ditch; it is to... and younger even than the de-laconically.
hated most in the Germans was of them. England is spending Many people do not bother at all erned by the player's instinctive bring the niblick down with "But what did you do? corated one, walked with diffical-
not that they had wished to do her capital," my husband said to about the matter (they just take estimate as to the measure of the crash about an inch behind the He as that he could not-es- ty by the help of two canes. They also looked about vainly for a cape. Why, there were a party minate the earth, but that they a couple of old friends who have their ordinary stances), but it cap'e edge which he seeds to cut object-just a one does in the had not fought fair. "Bat we'll been working for two years in a is certain that when the ball is on sway in order to get at the ball and when particularly horribly Of course it is hopeless to try bunkered-go that the apheaval "Yes," they both slope, the stroke needs to be table, and once more officere of me in a German trench, and it
who tackled in a manner rather differ and slice of a large chunk of turf, of soil will make the ball jump doubled up and gave them. His got pretty bot, and cost of our worry 'am," said the lance, cheer-hospital. companions helped the crippled fellows went back; but I had a fully: "we'll give 'em fright cried, jyonely;
wouldn't spend his capital to beat eat from the castomery. I know nor would I suggest to the golfer up and escape. Unless you have falnem!" one to sit down easing him slowly good supply of bombe, so I kept
The young woman whose bus the Germane ?" And the words good golfers who say that, when that he should do such a thing plenty of room in which to swing. into his chair, and I could see by on bombing until there were no the drawn lines abent his mouth are Fritzes. Well, my captain band and brothers were at the were not empty, for they had lost the bell is banging that is to say, even if it were profitable to him and the chance of making this that every movement was agony. heard about it, and he thought front spoke up from her corner: just half their income through resting ons downhill slope you suficient divate are raised in the ball By straight privilege that "Yes; while we women can only the war, and for the first time in should stand rather more behind ordinary way without anybody is not often forthcoming in a the ball than usual, with most of advising the extraction of more ditch-it is not much use trying " their lives were saving money.
eory.
he kept them closed and bie month tightly sbat,
it
wait.'
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seen a gun they
less military. Of their ow
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say
ball.
Lic.
a the deep face of a banker running
parallel with the course. In this
His eyes were sunken, and for a was pretty decent, so be reported long minute after he had sat down it and I got the medal,”
I agreed with her that the hard- There are two facts which stand the weight on the right leg and and as moderate players are far to take the ball cleanly. It will The ice was now broken, and all in the compartment began to eat rols always was played by the cat pre-eminently that Great body turned well toward the hole, more destructive in this respect merely hit the side of the ditch Of course I was tired from the talk together like old friends. We women who had to wait. There-Britain is fighting for the right, so se to secure the effect of a cat than good golfers I want to exa-and settle down in its olntobes many formalities of being allowed learned that the soldier was a apon the old gentleman from the and that she is going to see the shot. Their argument is that, if phasize that nothing in the nature again.
between your feet, the stope will lamps of earth is advised.
sppear on Saturday next. In it to land in England, and the sight lance corporal, and was returning other corner, in vehemently pas- thing through, no matter what it you stand with the ball midway of an uplifting of anbetentis! [Vardon's fourth article will It is a pity that the world of he says that every hole on every of suffering manhood wae new to to France after a leave, Hie sionate tones which made the mar cost in blood and treasure.
We onlookers are convinced carry your weight forward se you
problem in me, while the others around me English, bis cultivated voice, and pathos of what he said the more had had two years to become ac- his simple and unsfected mennere Pigasat, cried: "No, madam, that, in spite of what it has cost bring the club down, with the re-caddying is not fall of zealots golf course. I
s man whom I once heard golfer makes his game, poorer customed to it, and there I sat bespoke his having come from a co. The hardest lot is not that and what it will cost, Great salt, that you will smother the with tongreso canstie sa that of tactics, and that the average
of the women, but that of the old Britain has never been so prosper- uneble to check the big tears that good home.
This may be all very well for a addressing his employer on han it really should be because be overlooks this fact, which is insisted on rolling down my Presently another young men men, who are longing to serve, ons, so welded together, so mach
"Did I hear you pay you came seriously, faced by every real checks. Now and then I furtive in khaki came in, wearing on his but who cannot because they are a nation, as she is to-day. I have short shot with a meebie, bat London course. ly watched the cripple. The pain caff two tiny gold atripes, ransing too old." And somehow he man-even learned not to object to the when it is necessary to bit long lessened, he was sipping his tea up and down, which indicated Bed to cover to me the tragedy content music in the hotel, the shot with sa iron or s wooden from Australis ? be asked of the student of the game) with that pleasurable abandon that he had twice been wounded, of those old men who long to well dressed women, the laughter, clab, I believe in standing & trifle player, who had bowked up about which only the English-born ex- He was a corporal, and unmis carry arms for their country and the chatter, the dancing, and the more forward then usual. In a dozen huge divots in a few
perpetual love making. All thoes fact, it is a safe rule in all circam boles.
Floating Mine Kills 9 Men. "Yes," was the reply, I'm periences with his tea-cup. He takably a son of the people, frank can'
When the train arrived in Lon-are bat the reactions against the stances. When your body is be
A few miles from Bpiddal, Co. was laughing sad joking, and in manner, and a friendly talker.
***Well" said the oddie, if Galway, some fishermen noticed when the band played a for-trot He had been in America in a don, ve sil ebock hands and grim reality in the trenches; the hind the ball, where the ground from down ander." hia left hand, armed with a crockery store. When war broke parted with regret. It had been real thing is that England at last is higher, there is a very con
|They went out in their canoes to sandwich, kept time to the dance ont he had returned to England a memorable journey, the most is awake, with more than the siderable chance of the club com. you go on like this, you'll soon sa obj et floating in the sea.
interesting time we had ever needed cannos, more than the ing into contact with this part of be bome," music.
and enlisted.
At Totteridge one of my pupile investigate and towed in a fast- We needed shells, more than the the stope before it reaches the
One of the men Eagland dosa not know that Never in my life has a five-spent in a railway carriage.
raination tothe shot. When you and yet lost it! He took sooached a wire when a terrifio ez- she has any especial philosophy hour railway jurne been so had came into contact with the needed reinforcements, and all ball, and that can only spell once missed the ball completely ing meer. of life. La reality, she has the brief, so interesting. We forgot British soul more closely than the old doggedness sad plack
To see England in thaki is to stand a trifle in front, there is far enormons a divot behind. the plosion took place. The vine men best of all; she takes life as a the golden, gray diy, prematuroly ever before. Thesbeolute feeling sport in which a man may lose, turning to night; we were trans- of securance of those young 60 bow democracy can rise to lers likelihood of hitting the tarf ball that it dropped on the object who stond above the mins were "bat the importance of which ported to France. We wets no fellows in khaki had become cure. fight for the right, to see how de behind the ball, although Isgres and bid it from view. The player blown to pieces. Several houses comes in the playing, not in the longer in the tiain we were with And this sssa:ance was strength mocracy can blander through that it is good to be conscious of thought he had hit it out of sight in the village were wrecked, and Raia. Therefore they make on the armies, we were with them ened when we saw the streets somehow, and can end in three having a little more weight then and wae crestfallen in a degree the windows in the police bar- fass about their wounded and at reet and with them at their of London. Even more than in seara in being more ready than arust on the right leg, in order that I have reversed equalled racks at 8 iddal were shelterade
him. time of impact. maimed. They do not pity them grim work. We heard the artill-Liverpool were the streete fall of monarchy can be in forty-four to avoid losing the balance at the when the truth was revealed to fils stated that German characters
were found on the exploded mina ➡do not even ruske heroes of ery, and we walked--not ren- khaki, and yet there was nothing years,
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