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troossrs. Then there was the caddie who, returning from a round with Mr. Balfour, exclaimed enthusiastically. If

I had his height, and he bad my brains, we'd make a grand couple in a four- some."

Play.

Mr.

For

Kirkaldy

Mr.

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STRAITS & CALOUTTA HALPHONG vs HOIHOW

5th Oct, Noon.

"HINSANG "HANGSANG" Fri "YUENBANE Fri

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7th Oct., NOOK,

7th Oct., Noon.

7th Oct. 31.

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8th Oct 3 PAL

"TAKSANG.". ...Tue, 11th Out, Bam

[BY OBOROL. W. GREENWOOD.] One of the greatest living personalities

STOEX OF MRI, · AEQUITH. in the world of golf in Androw Kirkaldy. known affectionately to his wide circle of Kirkaldy ono had a misunderstanding goling friends as Andra. His burly with hir. Asquith which for a tima serí

gure may be seen any day, except Sun-ously affected their relationship.. Jay, leaning against the little wooden ing in different matches, their shots were fence at the back of the eighteenth green trapped in the same bunker.

St. Andrews watching the never-end- Asquith was positive that Andrew played ing stream of players cross the famous the wrong ball, while Kirkaldy was Bilcan Burn on their return from an equally certain that he had not. adventurous journey round the historic months there was an estrangement, and links. His transparent honesty, his fear- then ons day Mr. Asquith asked Kirkald UALOUTTA LINE :-TAN Lane affords regular sailings to Calcaths. Fening sno Irasnoes in appraising each and every to play a round with him. golfor at his true value-ofton in phrases declares that in the meantime something

must have happened, to satisfy which cut like a whip, but with no trace of the game and its players, have givers Asquith, who, he says, of bitterness in them--his deep knowledge Asquith that Andrew was in the right. Kirksidy has played many a round with him a unique position in golf. And now

was always SHANGHAI he has told his life story in a volume very free, jolly, and friendly," He entitled My Fifty Years at St. An calls seeing Mrs. Asquith standing on the back of one of the hobby-horses at It is a book crammed with re- drewa."

One foot was miniscences of a golfer, who, although he a fair at St. Andrews. never won a championship, was one of planted on the horse's saddle and the Mrs. Asquith called the best exponents of the game. There other on its neck. is much sound common sense in the chap-out, "Andrew, what do you think of ter on the Making of a Golfer." in me now? Don't you think I look well f which he clearly differs from most pro- Andrew agred, but advised her that the fessionals in the way in which they teach stance was a bad one. One of Kirkaldy's the game.

Very likely they will differ greatest. joys is a match with Earl Halg from him. His long experience tells him who plays the game for the love of that players anxious to improve their it and for the good he gots out of it." game often get into a muddled state of Quite recently, when playing the first mind. They think of far too many hole Kirkaldy put his second shot into things at once, instead of settling down the wilcan, and the Field-Marshal, with to one or two simple principles. All that out waiting for the caddies, lay fist on the golfer should trouble his head about, the turf and, leaning over the bank of age Kirkaldy, are the stance and the the burn, fished out the ball. jawing. To those of us who have listened with the deepest respect to the teachings of Vardon, Taylor, and Duncan, and have studied until far into the night their treatises on the mysteries of golf sad then sneaked off to bed to dream of the wonderful things we shall accomplish it will come as a shock on the to read what Andrew says about modern methods of instruction. He exclaims, with no little vehemenco:-

Singapore; returning from Calcutta siasm.rs, proceed via Straf and Hongkong to Japan, cossionally calling si Shanghai All teamery bare arcallant pawonger accommodation, are fitted with Electric Light and Fans and carry a fully-qualified Burgeon LINE:-Slings approximately every five days between Canton and

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HALPHONG LINE-Salinga

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morrow,

There are two charming and character istic stories in these memoirs of Bon Sayers, Kirkaidy's life-long friend. One concerns a party of five Americans who came to North Berwick. Four of them bought clubs and balis while the Afth stood aloof and sneered, somewhat con- temptuously, at the game. Feeling lonely, he strolled into Sayers's shop and said he thought he had better buy some clubs too. Do you know the game?" asked Sayers. Thoroughly." replied the American. Feeling sure that he was bluffing, Sayers sold him a mixed set of right and left-handed clubs, This strange bag of implements created great merri- Suspecting a ment among the caddies.

hack practical joke,, the American went to Sayers, and in angry tones shouted, "Who the devil are

are you making a fool of "Nobody," said the unabashed You take the right-handed Sayers. clubs for the first nine holes, ard change over to the left-handed ches when tura to come back home." Andrew have played, much together, and were seldom beaten in & foursome. one occasion Sayers was out of sight in a deep bunker, whereupon somebody re whether the weight of the body; marked, "What is Sayers doing? Andrew replied, "You may be sure he's thrown on the left foot; and whether.no wasting his time. after the ball is hit the club flies round over the left shoulder with the ere look ing at the place which the ball left, and whether, during all these contortions, the a ball on the top of your cap.

"TORTURING THEORIES.".

Do not for heaven's sake do not-start by making yourself whether the clubhead is coming back from the ball parallel with the ground. eight, nine, tea, eleven, or twelve inches; whether you are taking the club away with the left hand, so that the left wrist turns, under the shaft; whether the club at the top of the swing lies Bomewhere the nape of the neck parallel with the ground; while the head points downwards like a pear; whether at this point the right leg is stiff with the weight of the body, thrown on it; whether the left knee is bent towards the right leg and the left heel, raised with a the bail of the foot firm on the ground

whether in the act of coming down, you bring all the speed of the club to the ball when nine or ten inches from

MARSEILLES, LONDON & ANTWERP vs Singapore, Penang head has remained still, enough to balance

Colombo, Buez and Fort Baid

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IYO MABU

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MITO MABU

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100

Friday,

Triday,

Friday,

HAMBURG, via LONDON & BOTTERDAM.

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14th Ocb, at 11 am. 98th Oct., at 11 am.. 11th Oct. at 11 p.

Baturday, 2nd October.

and of November.

LIVERPOOL & GLASGOW vis MARSEILLES.

LISBON MARU

KAMAKURA MARU

SYDNEY & MELBOURNE

Island, Townsville &

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Tuesday,

4th Oct. Beginning of December.

:

Manila, Zamboanga, Thursday Brisbane,

TROKAY, 18th Oct, at 11 am. Tacaday, 18th Nov, II a.m.

NEW YORK, VIA PANAMA & CUBAN PORTS,

NIKKO MABU -

AKI MARU

DURBAN MARU

DELAGOA HARU ̧.*

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NEW YORK" via SUEZ.

RANGOON MARU ...

Thursday, Triday,

10 Oct.

15th Nov.

- End of Ost.

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One of the most foolish things that Kirkcaldy ever did was to play the better ball of Mr. Tolley and Mr. Wathered.

It was a suggestion of Braid's-a wicked fellow, to be sure. He

Oxford goliers · were coming to St- wrote to Andrew telling him that the two Andrews and that he might play them both. "I tried it," says Kirkaldy,

" and that's all I am going to say about Kirkaldy regards Vardon as one of the two greatest golfers that ever lived, the

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always struck me as wonderful. Fo seems to sink into the game."I believe agun shot ten feet away would not put

no victory over Vardon, though Kirkaldy has beaten Braid, Taylor, and Herd more than once-Daily Telegraph.

Bosh! Utter mosh!" cries Kirkaldy He exhorts us to put aside all such miseries, and pleads earnestly with us to learn to swing without jerking, with out stiffness, and most of all, withoup" Vardon's concentration," says Andrew, doubt And ask no more questions until your handicap is down to single-figures." All the great men were caddies once. They played naturally with never him off. His fifty years of golf includes thought of ball-fright. Their brains were not confused and crippled with the idea that a golf ball can only be hit properly nine or ten things are borne in mind if

tells in the act of hitting it Kirkaldy of certain colonel who has informed him fifty times at least that golf has been a mental agony to him ever since he He read books about how to play, it was a good golfer before that accident befell him. He is now doing his utmost to forget all he ever read in the bope If a book of recovering his lost form.

A

BIO DE JANEIRO, SANTOS & BUENOS AIRES is OAPH. at the sight of it. Blow all these tortur-

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Middle November)

BOMBAY ris Singapore, Penang and Colombo,

AKITA MABU

CALOUTTA» via Bingapore, Penang & Rangoon,

Monday, 17th Cet

BERTEN MARU

TOTOMI MARU

NAGASAKT

... Baturday, 18th Oct. Tuesday, 15th Oct. KOBE & YOKOHAMA.

Friday,

14th Och, at II a.m.--

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Wednesday, Wednesday,

Friday, Friday,

1th Oct. 19th Oct,

AKI MARU

SHANGHAL KOBE & YOKOHAMA, :

KAMAKURA KARU (calling Nagasaki)'.. KIRIN MARU (omitting Bhanghai) BHIDZVOKA MARU...

14th Ost at 11 am. 28th Oct at 11 am:

AIRSHIP DEVELOPMENTS, ANOTHER “SUPER-GIANT.” LIKE A SPEEDY SEA VESSEL."

The Daily Mail says the super-giant- on the rudiments of golf were put in aeroplane building for the Government front of him the colonel would shiver at Bristol heralds a fresh era in design. So large is the body that it conveys the The ing theories away, says Kirkaldy, and

impression of a speedy sea-vessel. Go up to the ball like a man who means vast interior of the hull contains a spaci to play the game for the game's sake. qui saloon, a shiplike engine-room with a cylinders Don't place yourself in the pitiable con- Dallery of engines with gleaming

of pown! dition of loking round after a shot to The new system of transmission ask a grinning little caddie, "How the from the engines to the propellors affixed What did I do in tiers to the wings will enable the devil did I do that?

machine to dy day and night. The peril wrong?"

Kirkaldy concludes his prayerful mes of a forced landing is practically eli sages to golfers new and old by sug minated, engine-room mechanics repair- newing the trouble while the acceleration of gesting the strict observance, of a commandment-"Keep your mind's eye of the other units maintains alti

tude and speed.

on the ball"

Andrew has played

The appearance of this tremendous many a game with Prime Ministers, bishops, statesmen, and Army chiefs, and craft takes away one's breath. It really his

with these celebrities" needs a new name. It does not resemble experiences

land or sea Builders make amusing "reading. An ecclesiatic, anything

anxious to beat Andrew, offered his describe her as an aerial transport, and For further information apply to NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA die, y name. Willie Brown, an extra say she might be used to carry troops or

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half-crown if he won the match. Play act as tender to a squadron of aeroplanes. ing the fourteenth, the minister hit his ball into "Hell "hunker, and the caddie, seeing it tucked up against the face.

"

THE HELICOPTER" Described as a man with magic hands, mattered. "That's a hell of a lie, ir. Frank Courtney, the winner of the Air Ye'll never get it oot unless ye taka Derby of 1920, has been chosen as pilot spade.' "Willie Brown," answered the during he trials with the secret Helicopter. don't you every road which has been produced at Aldershot. parson severely, your, Bible? Don't you know that sin. The choice is generally approved, no Ders go to hell, where there is a lake of other airman having faced greater adren For some time he has been en are and brimstone 1 Willie's waive turen. We're both in older ongoria no express machines.

Hold yer tongue, minister. gaged in the trial flights of big air-

such a bad place after

There is than brimstone; anywa i moro sand. another story about the famous banker, which concerns the Bishop of London, He got into Hell

and despaired of

The Helicopter, says a London message ever getting the ball out. To his aston to Indian papers, is a closed-book and however, he recovered miracul, an utter mystery. It is impossible to tell and, clambering out of the depths, how it will behave when the direction of

That

was a good light is changed. If Courtney is success "Yes," remarkedful it will inaugurate a completely fresh

delightedly, A

abot,

Andrew

He has wonderfully sensitive hands comparable only with Hawker's while he also possesses skill, experience and daring, all of which are necessary.

Kirkaidy you got out of Hell very phase in the development of fight and

THE LOSS OF R38,

well. When ye die, mind and take yer will, be an achievement comparable with niblick with ye. Andrew often had a the Wright Brothers' first flight, or round with Mr. Balfour, whose manner Pegoud's first loop. had a very sobering effect on the often MI. outspoken professional. Whenever Balfour made a bad shot he never por. An extraordinary incident in conner. mitted himself to matter stronger than the WordBoth thing tion with the airship dimater is the pre- monitory feeling experienced by the Ame There is a caddie as North Berwick who rican Ambassador, Colonel Harvey, claims close acquaintanceship with

Just before the crash be many London. famous men, one of whom is Hr. Balfour. abandoned a game of croquet and entered When asked what he meant by "close the house with the determination to sable acquaintanceship," the caddie replied, to Washington urging the authorities to **Just this," pointing to his legs, I'm reconsider the undertaking of tran

wearing a pair of Mr. Balfours Atlantic flights with airships

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