The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-08-11
FROM THE GOLF LINKS
SOMETHING 1BOUT THE HISTO RY
 OF THE ANCIENT GAME.

Interesting Items to the Many Follow
 CTS of the Sport-The Humor of the
 Scottish Cnddie.
 Of the writing about golf there is no
 end, and some very remarkable discov-
 cries have recently been made. One
 writer tells us that it was introduced
 into Manhattan Island, not by the
 Scotch (with John Reid at the head) as
 has been generally supposed but by the
 Dutch many years ago. On this ac-
 count knickerbockers were worn when
 playing the game. Another writer
 gravely asserts that golf was fashion,
 able summer amusement in England
 and Scotland more than 300 years ago.
 Golf has been played in Scotland for
 more than 300 years no doubt, but it
 has never been recognized there as ex-
 clusively a summer" game or fash
 ionable" game. It was played by all
 sorts and conditions of men and women,
 boys and girls. It is played by enthu-
 siaets all the year round, unless when the snow lies deep or the frost has made
 the ground like iron. It is only of re- cent years that golf has become a popu-
 lar game south of the weed. As to the
 attractions of the game only those who
 have played golf can know them all, but that writer knows something of them
 who says: People who never before knew the charms of country life now
 take in wide reaches of landscape with a delighted eye as they go tramping over J;,,1,e A,n ;L play all parts of the body, lends sup pleness and grace to the form, and straightens out an army of hollow chested, stoop shouldered people of the desk, Nor can it be abused, as are so many other sports. There is no demand for quick and violent action, as in ten- his or baseball. It trains the eye and the arm and it's motto is far and sure.'"
 man who has not long started golf ing has not had the usual experience of novices in buying new sets of balls every few days. Perhaps it is because he is of such an observant nature He started with half dozen balls, has lost eight, and has thirteen left.
 At the old Trafford links, Manchester, England on the 27th ult, Harry Var don the champion golfer, was beaten by Herd of Huddersfield, by one hole The winner went around in 73 and Var don in 75.
 Did you know they used to fine peo- pie in Scotland for playing golf?" Are you sure that it was not for talking it?"
 Niblick-"What did I do that hole in, caddie? I've forgotten?" Caddie - Well, sir, think it must be something over seven, for when the gentlemen gifts | over seven they always does forgit."
 Another Caddie Story.-A good story 1 is being told in the north. An English l golfer on holiday at Montrose had a smart little chap for caddie. The wis., itor was playing a good game, but no matter how fine a stroke he had the caddie remembered a better player from the same spot. by one Cobb or another Jack Cobb holed for a bunker when Keillor was laying dead in the odd; Bob Cobb drove twenty yards farther than this in the shield competition there's the mark of his iron yet Will lie Cobb did this, and Dave Cobb could do the other. At last the Englishman won his match by holding really grand stimie shot at the last hole and he asked his caddie if he ever saw Cobb do that q aimee did it myser," replied the unblushing histo- rian of the Cobbs. And what the - (expletive)-is your name, then?" yelled the enraged Sassenach. Tam Cobb"
 The second half of the golf match for e100 between Willie Park, jr., and Harry Vardon was played at Canton, YOrl<shirn thl o0ir1et io t1,a ence of 1000 spectators. Vardon had a lead from the first half of the match of two holes, and he won on Saturday with Ii up and 10 to play
 The Golf Player.-This is a golf link, No, Tommy it is nothing like a sleeve link. The man with the stick is a golf er. What is the golfer doing? You see that little ball on the pile of sand? He Is going to try and hit that peaceful lit- little ball right on the face and send it with pain into another plan ct. Will he hit it? Tommy, he will not. But let us watch him try. Swish, There, was it not as told you? And he has broken his club Now, what will the golfer do? It is hard to tell exactly, put if he turns round and sees the grin on the face of his caddie he will do .hings for which he will be sorry later. 5ee he is about to turn. Let us go lway, Tommy. I hate to hear a caddie ,rying.-The Bailie. At Canton on the 24th inst, John Ball, r., and Harry Vardon, representing England, defeated Willie Park, jr, and 2. G. Tait. representing Scotland, in a golf match by up and to play. s The new football grounds of the Glas- sow Rangers will have accommodations