GOLF.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 385, 10 May 1910, Page 3

GOLF.

Old hand: "I played oil' my tie ti.is I morning.' Xe-v chum: "that's m.'.ii'.'.'!: j I ])h- veil off three of my waueon outtons! ' , Visitor: "I suppose I have playea over I more courses Mum any man." XgamotuI ite: "I bet 1 know someone ; who can ' beat you in that respect." Visitor: I ''Who'?" Xgamotu-ite: "Colonel Bogey!" i ''l ought to 'have won that medal toi day. 1 had awful bad luck, didn't I, | Olimt'r Any mmrber of my putts might j have gone in and didn't/' "Yes; but, I then, on the other hand, any number ! of your putts which aid go ,n—----not have!" Golf has been played continuously at Banff (Scotland) for nearly 300 years. In 1037 Francis .Brown was hanged on the .gallows at Banff for stealing golf (balls. The old feather ball cost Is 4d ,in the early days of golf. In later years tnc I price rose to 2s lid and to 3s .(id anu i» I for the best makes. Two apes acted as caddies on the Nan Francisco .links in 18<J3. They belonged to an American lady and were perfectly trained to their duties. In a "stimy" match played for a wager on the Warwickshire Club's links in °1892, a player holed 05 out of !)1 stymies, his .ball 'being 2y s it from the hole. ' • i . i ''-" foozle's philosophy: "Don't try to run before you can pitch." A southern paper announces that one of the professionals in a match the other (lay was driving "tremendous balls." Footballs, perhaps! Stickles: "My .hole!" XovieCf '•Why?" Stickler: "You brushed the line of the* Mitt with.jthe back of your ihand." Xoviec: l 'Mh but you've got to allow me a stroke hei'flC The penalty for a lost .ball ifl stroke play in 1842 was "three strokes arid distance." In the early Victorian days of wolf there 'were no tills in the holes, which were cut in sandy soil. The caddie used to scoop a much of sand out of the hole to make a tee for the next drive. The lifting of "hreak-elubs" ,and other impediments within acini) lenjth of the Iball dates back to 1754; but "from 1842 till 1851 such lifting was .restricted to the putting green. In 1851, the right of lighting impediments through the green was restored, ibut the "Club length" was reduced to "12 inches." In ISSS, the rule was altered into what is sub- | stantially its present form. j