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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
LORD BALFOUR AND GOLF:
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1926.
fond thought that he could play auf- ficiently woll to enjoy playing with his friends..
Nowadays golf is treated se a LORD NEWTON'S MEMORIES.very serious business; and is dis- eugod, as. It seems to me, at in- Of Parliamentary golfers Lord ordinats length and with undue Newton is one of the most enthusiaolomnity in the daily Press. This astic: of Peer golfers he is among sports. If the traditional intel remark applics, however, to all the oldest: his memories of M. P.s at golf, as well as his views on the ligent foreigner is here now and game, are therefore particularly studies the newspapers, he may be interesting, and I counted myself forgiven if he assumes that we are fortunate when he consented to much more interested in the re-
give them to me.
Golf has changed very greatly since Lord Newton first played it, many years ago now.
"The most noticeable change" he said, "has been the general im provement in the standard of play. I may cite, my own case as an ex- ample.
"More than thirty years ago I twice "woh the Parliamentary handicap-once, incredible as it now seems, with a handicap of 5.
sult of the Test Match than in the result of the coal strike.
Two Great Amateurs.
"It was Lord Balfour, I think, who firat made golf really populari in England. He used to play it regularly when he was one of the most outstanding figures In the Houses of Commons, and the great popularity and respect which ho enjoyed undoubtedly contributed largely to the spread of the game.
"If he had started to play enril- er in life he would probab have Now, I doubt whether I could developed into an exceptionally win with 25; and although I have good amateur, for he had an always been a very ludifferent per-japtitude for all ball games. former I am convinced that I do
"At the time of which I am not play any worse now than in the speaking the best political player past. Still, it would be manifestly that I can remember was rash, taking myself as a standard, Forster-recently Governor-Gene- to assume that people play fiveral of Australia-who was also a times better now than thirty years first-class cricketer.
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Lord
"Amongst the amateurs I should hazzard the opinion that Mr. John Ball and Mr. Hilton were better
than any of the amateurs of to-day.
"The general improvement in the standard is due partly to im proved courses and improved im-
"In my opion French profes- plements: it is due also"1 think sionals are distinctly better teach- to the fact that both sexes begin ers of the game than our own, al- to play when they are young.
though perhaps less brilliant and effective in performance. I at- "In the days I refer to golf was tribute this power to impart in- played by very few people; and the struction to the fact that the essential qualification was belleved French carefully study theory; to be middle age. Scarcely any and I will even venture to, assert young people condescended to it that they are superior to as teach- they looked upon it as an insipid. ers in, every form of sports, as amusement for their olders. Now, well as of art,”
of course, it is the rising genera- tion which produces the best ex ponents of the game.
"In the old days, too, golf was
Lord Newton recalled, too, a faet which modern golfers have forgotten that their game used to be regarded as cheap.
not played so strenuously and con- "That epithet," he said, "can sistently as it is now. A man hardly be applied to it now!"-An played because he liked the game Evening News Correspondent.
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