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BAWLING OUT THE New York Sun we hear more about! If I listened to one tale of woe CENSUS THRILL FOR

NEW GOLF BALL.

Put the U.S.G.A. on the Spot

BOOTLEG OR GUTTY_GOOES.

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Ring twice and ask for Charlie. Tell him you're a

pal of Joe Whoozis. Then you can get your bootleg golf-balls right off the boat -old-style golf-bails that travel for and don't mind the wind.

him. But frst Mr. Hammond tells I listened to fifty. us of the golf-cluba of Amèrica that are busy signing protests bite them in the leg. against the now ball and mailing them to the U.S.G.A.:

The new, ball did everything but

Porsonally, I see no reason for such wailing.

That does not dispose of the 1. rather like the new ball. It matter, however, for there have seems to be the same for every one. been more tangible steps than Of course it's a grand alibi and petition malling.

It makes the dub happy to think he

It may havo beon the result of a has a real complaint, but it won't misunderstanding, but soon after stand up under examination.

the-first-of-the-year-the-Houston Country Club of Texas announced Its Invitation tournament in a leadet which stipulated the use of the new ball was optional with the player.

One of the leading amateurs in

the metropolitan district was the recipient of one of these invita-

tions.

Presumably the U.S.G.A. was in- An exaggeration, of course. formed of the circumstance down But, nevertheless, now that the in the Longhorn State, for through United States Golf Association hastens the matter was ironed out, local officials of affiliated organiza- decreed the old 1.62-1.62 ball out of the new ball being made obligatory official existence in favour of the Now comes the rumour that new 1.68-1.56, certain golters have been buying the old-style ball from

dealers in the contraband.

The old ball, you'll recall, had a diameter of 1.62 Inches and a weight of 1.62 ounces.

The new one has a diameter of 1.68 inches and a weight of 1.55 ounces.

again in the Southwest revolt is browing, and one whisper has it that a unit in that locality has gone so far as to advertise boldly the sale and use of "bootleg" balls.

The technique of bootlegging, alas, is not difficult, and. is said to a premium and one Pay quite doesn't have to trek down across the Mississippi to find this native practise firmly established.

Hit her and she'll go. Slice hor and she'll slice. Hit a good shot and it's good. Dub it and get what you deserve. Two things happen to a sliced ball. It goes into the rough; it

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80s out of bounds. ball when sliced.

Two things happen to the new

into the rough.

It goes out of bounds or it goes

ilable to go out of bounds than lato Because it is lighter, it is more the rough.

break for the dub.

This, if you ask me, is a distinct himself one (never two and puts He charges another ball down. Playing out of the rough, he is liable to take any where from three to six strokes.

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KHAIRPUR STATE,

Ruling Family's Excess Expenditure.

Madras, July 4.

PRAGUE.

Will Million Mark Be Passed.

NEW CAPITAL

Britain is not the only country Slovakia is sherly-expecting thrilled with figures, Czecho- census, as thorough as our own, and

ther Prague has yet passed the Its people are enger to know whe

million mark.

If it has, It will be a close shave, that have sprung into importance in Prague is one of the new capitals

the last twelve years, since the 'col- lapse, of Austria Hungary and its Central Europe. "ramshackle empire" that was once

lying to the north of gay Vienna, At the beginning of the war, was the provincial city of Prague, with some 400,000 Inhabitants. In 1918 came the revolution. The new republic of Czecho-Slovakia proclaimed itself independent, with Prague as ita capital.

Population Doubled.

All the Czechs and the Slovake who had been living in Vienna and -Budapest-the capitals of the old Empire came hurrying back to their old homes.

The new ball may be bigger and, therefore, theoretically easier to

Still Bobby Likes It. hit, but it doesn't travel like the old one did, it is claimed. It adds like the new ball, according to Bobby Jones and Gene Sarazen Atrokes and strokes to the score John Kieran in the New York and has many another bad habit. Times, But they are experts.

A communique, issued by the Altogether, it is producing angry | Life, the humorous magazine, Government of Bombay states that speaks out firmly for the man in the Mir of Khairpur has not been and anguished wails from the the rough. In an open letter to superseded, nor is his. deposition locker-rooms of the land, and a re- the U.S.G.A., it says of the new under contemplation. volt against the U.S.G.A. is ball;

It adds that Khairpur State is outside the old walls to accom threatened

great-financial difficulties, part--modate the new citizens."

That is one of the things that

"The new ball site up on the turf as pretty as a strawberry on a shortcake, But you still take asi much turf with your putts and still get as much distance with, your

alices."

The housing shortage was unpre cedented. The Government had to force, people to take lodgers. Every one, who could went into the bulld ing business, and a new city grew

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It is a failure. It was a disapin pointment in May; it will be hated ly due to the decrease in revaque in June, and by July it will be a and partly to excessive expenditure mako Prague so interesting. tyranny.

for purposes connected with the the middle, round the Charles ruling family.

Bridge and the river Vitavo, aro the buildings that made Prague beautiful in the old days.

You have literally commanded the player who worked and slaved, slave quite a bit harder to break for years to break 90, to work and

100.

"Buga" Baer, who makes this He watches that ball leave the comment in the New York Ameri-tec more anxiously than a father ever watched his daughter go out can, can laugh at the great golf-at night. ball war. But to the warriors it's His very backstroke is ordered no laughing matter, and in the by su imagination seathing with New York Evening Journal Nan

allbis. O'Reilly gives us the average golfer's slant on the business:

Those Who Won't Use It.

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An official of the Metropolitan Golf Association is placed in the anomalous position of having the members of his own.club in Jersey refuse to play the new ball.

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He sees his caddle reách for his putter with the tortured mind of a patient watching his dentist reach for a new and strange and pain-faden implement.

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fair, because it widens the gap The new ball is unjust and un-

Mr. I. H. Taunton, I.C.S., is is practically in charge of the Minister in the Mir's service, and

Then there is a gap of 300 years, whole administration, owing to the There are few houses just pre-war Mir's voluntary prolonged absencene "Victorian" architecture as from the State.

we know it.

EAST LONDON.

African Town Wants to Change Its Name.

There is a good deal in a name between the expert and the dub. In the opinion of the people of East

Pretty But Friendless.

Then comes the modern city, the new, quarters that house the sur plus population of a small city that has doubled its population in twelve years,

Here are the great, steel-and- concrete factories and offices, ger vice flats, and large residential estates.

The old city still helds its sleepy, mediaeval air in the midat of all the hubbub.

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It may prevent a great player from London, which is anxious that its looks from the window of an At one of the leading West-

turning your toughest course in a name should be changed so that "American hotel in the Square of chester clubs, where the members casual 66, but it will prevent many should not be confused with that Saint Wenceslaus,

He can see the have two real championship

thousands of others who make portion of London which is not too river, blue between its many courses, the golfers tear down love the fun-from turning in that

the game, make the galleries, and savoury.

bridges, and beyond the dark green the U.S.C.A. notice

Petrin That, at any rate, la the opinion of the Joyous 89 that means so much. of the East London Chamber of Hyde Park.

Commerce. The chairman, Mr. He presses a bell, I. H. King, said he had always felt chambermaid opens the In another article in The Sun that East London was very badly brings hot water and the morning's | BREWERS Out West the action is more Mr. Hammond reviews the many named. concerted. The "official magazine changes the golf-ball has

Instances were quoted, of newspapers. He dresses and goes WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW seen letters addressed to the town har down to eat an "English breakfast" EXCELSIOR BOOK STORE. of the Oregon Golf Association, from its original form as a little ing been sent to England. representing the men's,

of bacon and eggs and strong tea. the leather bag stuffed with feathers, women's, and the professional asso- to its present stats. Every change the City Council and ask that body stick, and accepts a tip with true

It has been decided to approach A waiter holds out his hat and and at the Publishers ciations of the State, has just in the golf-ball has met with op-to take the necessary stops in re- Western, alacrity.

The Newspaper Enterprise, Ltd. voiced its protests over the latest position, just as all changes, are gard to the proposed change,

That is modern

China Mail. Building, crime of the U.S.G.A.

Prague. met with opposition. But this "Just who is the U.S.G.A. mak- time there is a difference. Pre- ing rules and regulations for; the vious changes in the golf-ball all professionals

the average benefited the duffer and tem- players who are putting up the porarily, at least, penalized the money to keep the courses going?" expert. But it is the average

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is the pertinent query asked in player who seems to suffer from Being Killed to Prevent

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this latest change. Hence these

"It is about time the U.S.G.A. tears. got off its high horse and used a In a word, the 'new ball seema little common sense if it is to re to be pretty nearly friendless. tain the respect and co-operation of the golf players. It is supposed to represent."

Harsh words, these! But the tip-off is in this little story:

A goffer went to buy some balls from one of our biggest sporting goods manufacturers, and the clerk asked him. "Old or new?"

Yet the U.S.G.A. is supposed to have bound over the ball-makers to sell only the larger and lighter sphere!

And Those Who Don't Sell It. So bere, for the first time, we meet the golf ball bootlegger. And from George P. Hammond in the

BRINGING UP FATILER":

LISTEN: DEAR! LORD BURNINGHAM IS COMING TO THIS COUNTRY AND MRS-D-PORTEAD HAS GIVEN HIM A LETTER OF INTRODUCTION TO US JUST

THINK OF IT- WE ARE GOING SITO MEET A REAL NOBLE-

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Simple People.

It la Interesting for the visitor to Prague to see something of the life of the Czechs themselves, a m go to a pivnice (bear house) simple, hard-working people. Let

near the Bethlehem Square.

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The room la crowded with work- people, students, clerks of both

The wild ponies of the New sexes.

But not completely, at that. In The Forest will soon be no more. They A waiter staggers to where he' Daily News of New York, Paul are being slaughtered at the rate site at a crowded table, and deala Gallico rises in its defence with of thirty-Ave week to prevent out a foaming tankard of beer. this spirited comment: At Tamarack it

them from ending their daya in Every one chatters or dances. was like the mines or being exported alive There is a space, six feet by six,

the new ball for the depression, for 0 wake. They were blaming to Belgium...

cleared between the tables, in which YOUR SAFEGUARD the wanther, for their troubles, for ing of the Southampton Branch round and round, vaguely to time It was stated at the annual meet half a dozen couples are turning

the bottom falling out of the of the E.S.P.C.A. that the Society with the band....

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moaning, such complaining.

Such crying, such snuffling, auch

welcomed the slaughter.

There is probably a dance in pro Mr. Thomas Brook, Branch gress at his hotel when the sight- Honorary Becretary, said that they seer returns. Tall, graceful women She won't putt, she won't drive, were killed in a humane way and in beautiful gowns are walking to she won't come out of traps, she the caresses were sent to Belgium and fro nedately on the arme of won't hold a Hne, she flies away in and France. There were now only the wind.

about seven hundred ponies left. He does not go into the ball-room, The members were coming In, He added that pontes en Dartmoor as he had not dressed. Round the posting. high scores and taking it and Exmoor were also being corner in the pivnice that would out on the ball.

have been out of place.

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