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A now book has just been pub lished entitled "John Peel: Famous in Sport and Song"

To those who know merely the song, and the tune John Peel is a legendary figuro, a type of the rollicking hunting squire of a past ago. It may safely be said that all that is known of John Peal ls contained in this book by Hugh Macholl; and, in all it, does not amount to much.

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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

BRITISH GOLF IN 1926.

A LEAN YEAR LEAVES ITS MARK.

From the professional point' of view, saya a writor in the London Observer the year now at an end has been no more encouraging than any of the post-war period For the fifth time in six years the, British Open Championship, the blue riband of the galling world, has been taken from us, on this occasion by an American amateur.

What Britain is sadly in need" He was born in 1776 near Caldof is a host of new players, young beck. In the Cumberland felis, and men of promise who will worthily hunted what is now, roughly, the 17 the places of those who are Blancathra Hunt country from the slowly, but surely, losing ground, age of 22, when he collected his But the trouble is that there ja Arst pack, until his death in 1854, scarcely one.

to be found. A "Two days a week was Peel out, potential champlon le as much a his favourite meets, being Skitrarity as a white raven, and if, and daw, Isell, and Messenger Mire when, he does make an appearancz Having a broad forehead he is sure to be whisked off to and curly hair, he allowed the Int-America, frstly, to become natur- ter to grow in ringlets of some allsed, ami, accondly, to bite the length. He wore corduroy knee hand that fed him. Has not this trousers and ankle jacka, and a been so with Hutchison, Barnes, very rong tall silk hat, which Macdonald Smith, and a good got pitty well battered with the many others? gales and rough work of the hunt- ing field. "Dunny," his horse; is said to have come out of the pot cart of a hawker, and used to fol- low him like a dog whenever the rough country made it impossible

tà ride."

The cutstanding British player, if such a description can be pro- perly applied, is Aubrey Boomer. At any rate, he has captured the lion's share of the prize money by winning the Professional Golfers' £1,250 touremont at 'St. Andrews, Though according to Surtees the one thousand guineas compoti- "huntin' and drinkin' are

two tion

at Gleneagles, and men's work," Peel contrived to French Open Championship, which combing the two in his tall and carries with it a vast number of vigorous frame. From all ne- francs. Boomer, however, rather counts it was a rare thing for him spoiled his reputation in the to be sober, even, in the hunting championship at St. Annes, where field.

he fell under the guillotine after playing two roundsy In the

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a year to run, and no doubt his Match-Play championship again farm suffered as the hounds pro- he failed to qualify, and so he spored. As his hounds were dis- wound up the season rather weak- persed after his death and soldly. Like so many British golfers, to other packs, some of the strain he proved himself a somewhat un- may still survive. He was mer-reliable and inconsistent ployer. ciless towards failure:

Boomer's average for 18 rounda of first-class golf works out at practically 75 per round."

Mitchell First in Average.

After a death he would ruminate the hunt, and if a hound had done wrong he used to dismount silently on neuring an old very deep coal- pit and say, "Here, Shifty." The This is not the best by any poor fond thing would come and means, Mitchell coming first with eringe, when he would fix it by the an average of a-fraction over 73% neck and fling it down, and run for fourteen away with his hand and whip at

rounds. Mitchell was the first British professional his cars, saying, "Lard a' mercy."in the Open championship, with The famous song was put to an average for the six rounds, in- gether by Peel and John Woodcock cluding the qualifying, of 74. Graves, all eccentric sportsman, Next on the list of British play-

and sung to an old Scottish tune,ers is Robson, of Copden Beach, "Cannie Annie." The present with an average of 74% for six- tune, an adaptation of the earlier, teen rounds. But he can lay was the work of William Metcalfe, claim to no success other than tak- for many years a lay clerk at Car-ing leading place in the qualify- lisle Cathedral.

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Duncan's Theories,

ing round for the match-play championship with a round of 69. Gadd is third with an average of 74 2/3 for.twenty-two, rounds, his only success being the winning of the Northern championship at Formby, where two naturalised Americans-Barnes and Kirkwood were properly disqualified for "Seeing in the dark" demonstra- turning up late on the last day. tions were given recently to about Following Boomer, already men 10 members of the Royal Institutioned, comes T. Williamson, of tion by Mr. John L. Baird, inven- Notts, who occupies fifth, place, tor of the Baird Televisor, at his with an average of 75.1. Then laboratory in Upper St. Martin's appears an entirely new name in lane, W. C.

the list of averages-W. H. The first account of this won- Davies, of Prenton, Cheshire, who derful discovery was given in The is placed sixth with 75 3-16. Daily Mail on December 16, and Davies is a neat and capable play- the facts were made known onlyer, lacking the flair for the big after two members of the Daily occasion. Mail staff had tested the "televi sor" and seen for themselves a distant person in the dark illu-Duncan comes seventh on the minated by a ray invisible to the list with an average of just over human eye.

75. On two important occasion" Mr. Baird explained how he had he failed to qualify, and alto- beeri concentrating upon reducing gether his golf has been very dis- the brilliance of the lighting re-jointed and very disappointing. quired in television, and how, by Duncan, because of his theoretical isolating rays outside the visible experiments, pursues the shadow spectrum, it had become possible and misses the substances. by the electric eye of the "tele- Duncan has not commenced his visor" to see a person sitting some tour in the States in a blaze of distance away in total darkness.. glory. In his first effort at Sacra- In parties of half a dozen the mento, California, his score of members of the Royal Institute 310 for 72 holes was as many as yesterday took thoir places in the twenty-thren strokes behind the dark before the transmitting winner, J. Turnesa," of Chicago. screen, while others, also in com However, Duncan's chief mission plete darkness, stationed them-le to avenge Mitchell's defeat at selves in the receiving room. the hands of Hagen, who is pre- Those at the transmitting end pared to engage in a contest pro- were then illuminated by the un- vided someone olee finds the seen rays, and perfectly recogni- money. Hagen's declaration that sable heade and shoulders of them he "is not a betting man" does not appeared on the screon in the re-quite square with the facts, for it ceiving room.

is no secret that he backed himself to win a large sum of money in the championship at Hoylake. Hagen won, but was never paid,

The impression conveyed by th demonstration was voiced by Mr, W. Lucas, who has been working upon the problems of television his dealings being with a firm that for many years. "It is an amaz had no real' existence. Falling ing development," he said, "and Hagen, Duncan is prepared to take one with possibilities almost illi-on anybody. Whatever else may mitable."

be thought, his pluck is certainly

Mr. Baird afterwards discused not in question.

on broad lines some of the coming developments of television.

"So far we are seeing over com- of great power in order to be able paratively short distances," ho to ses a person or a scene which said, but it has now become sim-18 thousands of miles distant from ply a question of certain technical the point where we are looking improvements and the application into the recolving screen."

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