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Bog to Notify Customers that Assorted Hampers suitable for the Festive Season may be obtained from them at the following Roduced Bates :-

No 1

HAMPER-$35.

1.Qt. Moet & Chandon Dry Imp.

Champagne.

1 Qt. Blackberry Brandy........

1 Pt. D.O.M.

1 Qt. Martell's XXX Bundy. 2.Qt. King Geo. IV or Perfection.

Whisky-

No. 2 HAMPER-$30.

1 Qt. Guillamart Champagne. -

1. Pt. D.Q.M.

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1 Qt. Burgoyne't Burgundy. TQ. Martell's XXX Brandy. 3.Qts. King Geo, IV or Perfection,

2:Qts. Tawny Day Port

1 Qt. Superb Tawny Port".. 2 Qts. St. Julien Claret.

1.Qt. Old Brown Sherry R.S.

1 Qt. D.O.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin. 1 Qt. Burgoyne's Australian Burgundy. 1 phial Pomeranzan Bitters.

No. 3 HAMPER-$25.

1 Qt. Burgoyne's Burgundy.

1 Pt. G. F. Pippermint.

1 Pt. D.O.M.

2 Qts. Bup. RO. Purt.

2 Qts. King Gac. IV or Perfection

Whisky.

Whisky

1 Qt. Engrand's XXX Brandy

9 Qts. St. Julien Claret..

1 Qt. Amontillado Sherry W.S.

1. Qt. D.C.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin.

2 Qts. Medoc Claret.

1 Qt. Vino de Pasto Sherry.

1phial Pomerauzan Bitters.

1 Qt. D.C.L. Old Tom or Dry Gin.

1. phial Pomeranzan Bitters,"

Hampers of all Descriptions made up to suit Customary' Eequirements.

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himself. The caddie's portion consists of a piece of rounded wood, about five or six inches high, with a spike at the end of it. This is stuck into the ground," nad then "Mr. Gillies produces from his hip pocket a piece of stout indiarubber tub ing, which he claps on the stick." "On the top of this miniature Eiffel Tower, actually nine inches from the ground, is perched the ball Looking at it reminds. Kour me of a north country game called and Spell," where a little white wooden hall is perched on the end of a spring, which when released throws the ball in the air. The striker with a very long club then smites the ball while it is momentarily suspended in mid-air. The distances covered by the real experts aro gigantic.

MAXIMUM OF CONCENTRATION.* Providentially, Mr. Gillies does not re- lease any spring; all he has to do is to hit a stationary hall on the top of a monument Moreover, to the general astonishment he not only hits the ball, but hits it a long way. Whether he hits

No game leads itself more readily to the inventive genius than dees golf: yet no game, despite the eccentrated efforts of scientists, physicists and others, yields up its secrets so reluctantly. From the time when golf seized the popular ima gination hardly a day has passed without someone like Archimedes, has cried Eureka! There is the man who made himself knock-kneed by gripping the ground with the balls of his big toes; the. mas who became bow-legged standing like a crab with his toes turned in, he cause he imagined he was cured of away ing. In each instance the toes were re garded as the god of driving. Col. Quill invented the bell attachment to his cap which rang out a warning note every. time his head moved. And in ora roit facther by this means than he would in the ordinary way would appear to be cent times. I have come across a man whe, a matter for speculation. But Mr. Gillies obsessed with the idea of keeping his says he does, and he is the person most head down, patented a "contrivance one-likely to know. Mr. Gillies claims that end of which was gripped between his his method promotes the maximum of con teeth and the other fastened to a buttonsentration on the shot, and concentration we know is one of the governing factors: of his waistcoat. The pull on his mouth was a signal that his head was being in golf. He certainly does appear to con jerked up. The success of the invqutioncentrate tremendously the while he is was somewhat marred by the fact that addressing the hall mounted on the scaf those with artificial teeth were denied its fold pole, and while the club is being nae. As Sir Walter Simpson has truly taken back very, very slowly and very pointed out, these and many other simalar deliberately. Of course, to let the eye devices have long ceased to have any wander, or to snatch the club back would be fatal. It is sometimes fatal without) menning or effect upon the originators golf. They are like labels left adhering either of these things happening: for in- to our travelling-bags-mere records of stance, when the clubhead comes in con- former trips.

tact with the wood-and-ruhher tee instead of the ball everything comes toppling to the ground like a wrecked factory chim- ney. Golf will be a funny game if we all come to the links with nine-inch tees in par pockets.

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I have been led into these observations by something that has come under my notice in the direction of a golfing inven tion or idea, emanating from a first-class golfer with a highly-developed scientific. mind. It strikes me as being so fantas tie, so opposed to all the fundamental principles of the game, that had the ex- pedient been the creation of anyone hut a golfer of note, or a man of high attain ments, it would scarcely have seemed worthy of consideration. The player th question is Mr. H. D. Gillies, the well- known facial surgeon, scratch at the R and A., plus 2 at Rye, and plus one at BANKING-SHIPPING-TRAVEL Woking and Addington respectively, who has represented England against Scot. land, and has won the Royal St. George's Challenge Cup in 1913 with 153, a secre that bas only been beaten on three occa sions during the last thirty years. Mr Gillies has always been recognised na un earnest student of golf, who has never taken anything for granted, and bare fered to work out nis own salvation on the links. And he has done it to good purpose.

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His investigations have led him into experiment with the golf swing from an anatomien aspect, and also with the im-||- plements of the game. Judging by his creations in the matter af clubs, it would see that he is by no means satisfied. that the orthodox everyday weapon is the best for the purpose. He has fashion- ed a driver more closely representing & bludgeon than anything I can think of. The head itself is thick and stampy with a face two and a half inches deep, the shaft is as unyielding as a poker, and Travel Transaction

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Having satisfed himself as to what the ideal driver should be. Mr. Gillies fertile hrain carried him further in the realms of investigation. Annarently, he came to the conclusion that there was some better method of teeing the ball, and, conse- quently, making the driving stroke less of a gamble than is the case, tofortunate. Is. with many of us. But I do not think the gambling part of it weighed very much with Mr. Gillies, because he always contrived to bit the hell more or less satisfactorily. This chief idea was to he able to hit it cleaner and farther. Even with him length is of paramount import- ance, provided, of course, that accuracy is not sacrificed. He had the living examanie hofore his eyes of Mr. Toller and Mr. Wethered,

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Mr. Gillies' experiments led him into a field never before explored Stances, grips, clubs, and all the rest of the para- phernalia have been disserted and new ones evoired by the thonsand, but to no satisfactory purpose. He approached the subject from quite a different angle and Changshan in a distinctly novel way. Presumably, Chefoo Mr. Gillies came to the conclosion that Dairen the universal method of teeing the ball Hailar. just clear of the ground might not be the best method, although it was the accept

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of the canons of the game. In the "Com the World bought and sold, plete Golfer. heys Tee the ball low, rejesting the very prevalent but erroneous idea that you are more certain of getting it away cleanly and well when it is teed high off the ground. The stroke that sweeps the ball well away from the low tee is the most natural and perfect, and it follows that the hall, properly driven from this low tee, is the best of (n)).* ́ ̈And Vardon goes on to say that the low tec" preserves a greater measura of similarity, between the first shot and the second, helping to make the latter with the brassie almost a repetition of the first, and therefore, simple and com→ paratively easy. A high tee completely: destroys the relationship between the two shots, the maintenance of which, adds Vardon, one of the principles of, Iony game."

None has ever thought fit to challenge the obvious truth, underlying this state- ment. Mr. Gillies is the first to throw doubt noon it. He seems to have poz-

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