GOLF GAMBLING.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 784, 6 April 1910, Page 5

GOLF GAMBLING.

PROFESSOR LODGE AND A BALL v • ON" THE MATCH. At the seventh, annual dinner of the Edinburgh Merchant Company Golf Club, Professor Lodge, captain of Mortonhall Golf Club, wbb: proposed the toast'of the evening, namely, the health of the,club, said he had had.it dinned into him and he knew from painful experience .that-there were'two extremi-' ties in golf, the professionals atone end, and the professors at the other. (Laughter.) In-their outings the members of the Merchant. Company Club had a desirable addition to.the social life of the company. There was one fly in their ointment.- Their games at these outings for, -at any. rate, one round were associated with a card and a lead pencil. The great defect of the medal round lay in the anxiety which accompanied it and in the tedinm which: lay m the recollection. To this irritating game with the pencil and the card ho preferred match play. They. might put a ball on it, but that was riot gambling. (Laughter.)- He had really a horror of the association of the game of golf with actual gambling. That 1 was one of the dangers'from which the game had happily been, free on the whole, and one into which he hoped it would never, fall, but he did not call a ball gambling. (Laughter.) -It was just enough to make onefeel a pleasure when he pocketed it, and a little irritation ; when he had to give it up. Match play was tho most social and most enjoyable form of golf, and that was the form-which the old-fashioned golfer would always prefer.