The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-03

nator of the International St. Andrews Society of Professional Golf, Players? 1 Tn Sandy Sanders. my boy, ana II just my luck that I discovered that all you chaps were here tonight. stopped in Clayton for a hand-out and the woman who gave it to me wrapped the fried ham and bread in an old newspaper that gave the tip that all you chaps were here. I'm going to stay over tomorrow and win that profes- sional championship can do it, easily enough, for there isn't a man on the list who cauld afford to beat me.
 Here's half a dollar, Ole" said Jock" Anderson. tTake that and run along"
 Half a dollar nothing said the tramp. 'Hoot, mon. You must think I'h cheap skate. Suppose should go in and tell all about you chaps. How Jock Anderson's right name IS Silas Holcomb; how the nearest he ever was to St. Andrews was Connecticut. Sup pose I should give the Clayton Gazette the story about how Tam Mclntosh's father named him Nels Nelson, and how he took his first lessons at golf playing 'shinny' on the ffords of Nor way? Suppose I give the real names and pedigrees of all you natives of St Andrews? Didn't pick out Archie AfcManners, name and all. when he was only Mike Murphy, and was playing duck on the rock on the heights of Harlem in New York? Didn't I teach rnIt ail ha EpnAVc about Scotch dialect? And you know perfectly well that if I hadn't worked so hard teaching you cosmopolitan skates to like the taste of Scotch whis- key wouldn't be where am now. Do I look like a fifty-cent skate? Ash me in, my boy. Let me join the rest of you chaps from St Andrews around the blazing logs and help you to drink the Scotch furnished by your loung and take up collection for me among you, and if you get enough together may
 decide not to take part in the open ! championship !"
 Making the best of an awkward situ- ation, Jock" Anderson invited the
 tramp to come in. He was given the seat of honor injthe big group about the
 fire, and "Jock" introduced him as "old
 Sandy Sanders" the father of golfing
 in America who happened to be going I through Clayton on his way west and stepped off to see the match.
 Sandy" Sanders applied himself so \ assiduously to the Scotch high balls that he had little time left for corlversa- z ] ton, though a shrewd observer might I have noticed that the natives of St. An ] drews looked at him with fear and I trembling When he came into the
 room, with his tangled red beard and long red hair, he greeted them all with a sweeping salutation and made a few remarks which sounded like an authors s .lreading from Beside the Bonnie Brier
 Bush.'' shortly he went to sleep, and soon afterward the young members of I the Country club started on the long
 drive down to the town, leaving the as- ll sembled professionals to prepare for the
 battle of the morning. J.
 When they started to put him to bed Sandy. Sanders woke up and proceed I ed to frighten the assembled sons of St. l Andrews with extremely indiscreet re marks.
 He called Jamie Carlysle Fritz d and asked him whether he had ever got l So he liked the taste of Scotch whiskey ias we'll as he did the beer of his native I Hand, and he pressed Willie" Wilson tc l let him know. what kind Of hair bleact ] a,,.1a < ,,.;,,. a iyY,ss,, 3hJnnl ailt nt
 his Italian goatee.
 It was extremely embarrassing to all 1 the members present, and they were glad enough when old Sandy" finally
 went off to sleep and left them alone.
 Next morning it was even worse
 sandy presumed on the strength ot the introduction he had received thu might before, and was all over the club
 house, talking with the club members and spinning yarns about St. Andrew! which the best of them could not hope to equal. He had had his first taste ot Igolf while acting as caddie for "aule
 Tam Morris" the grand old man Q golf" and he had spent at least tel
 hours day on the St. Andrews link
 between the yea1s of eight and twenty
 five. The fact that all the professional
 knew that 'sandyn had never set foo
 on the soil of the British isles did no ! help them in the least. Trey were al ready committed and dared not expos
 him.
 To add insult to injury, Sandy in
 sisted on entering for the championshil
 contest, and he gave notice beforehan, that any man who presumed to bea |, him should be publicly exposed to al the world. Followed by the most dis graceful exhibition of golf playing eve
 witnessed on a first-elass links.
 All the '"Willies and Jocks an , 'Jamies" in the party topped thei ,, drives, pulled and sliced their brassi shots, foozled their approaches, drov , inta the bunkers with their n1idirons ,, rimmed the cup, laid each other styn1ie ], land missed six-inch puts at a rat !, which threw the sporting editor of tn 1, Clayton County Gazette into conyul ' sions. Sandy Sanders was an eas :, lwinner, with the nearest St. Andrew
 man at least eight strokes behind hin 7, The members of the Clayton Count : Country club were naturally terribl 7 put out over it, and their anger was lii z tie lessened by the statement of Jock 1, Anderson that ".'Twas a matter . courtesy to tn old mon. We couldno | . expected to hole out ahead O tn fay ? ther n, lIs all ';-Cthica 20 Tribune.