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dropped into a hat and upset a dozen times,

dropped into a hat and Upset a dozen times,
perhaps, and otherwise shaker up.
The theory is that the slips will bc
thoroughly mixed up. as eggs in IN ONE
lette, but the fact is that the slips cling
together in the tossings. One or two NAV
become detached and drift out of the mumer
iCal arrangement, but nine times in ten the
names will be drawn in bout the same
order IA they are put into the hat, so that
the low scorers and high scorers get to-
gether and the result is an Uneven draw
at seema plausible" remarked a by
stonder. No doubt molecular cohesion.
heightened by the electricity generated by
friction in the felt hat. helps TO hold the
slips together. At lottery drawings in old
times, YOU know, the. numbers were put
inside little balls and shaken In a wheel
THE idea is one that has occurred to
me- Travis continued. "My plan would
be to numbe the names from one to thirty
two, or one to sixteen. and then to place
smell balls with corresponding numbers
in a leather bottle, such as is used in
settle the rotation of playing. In the same
way the committee would shake up thn
numbered balls and drop them out one
a. a time. The player whose number
comes out first will play with the one whose
number comes out next, and so on until
the draw is completed. This would be a
settlement by the luck of the draw free
from the haphazard shaking up Of the
present mode"
The idea is pregnant with possibilities
and it will probably be taken up every
where, for Americans are nothing il not
progressive, even in such a conservative
game a. golf. Besides, every club that has
a pool table has the apparatus at hand
for such a fair and square draw, while the
golf associations may easily buy a special
outfit of leather bottle and balls.
That Americans have improved the
nv y 20 Nf 1orinn for Inlc fha Intn,t .-,-It-
being to set up motor lawn mowers, every
one knows, and also what wonders have
been worked by the invention of the lively
cores. shortfaced drivers and crossheaded
aluminium clubs. Tournaments to begin
with a medal play qualification round and
continue with match between the divisions
grouped into sets on their aggregate totals
are an American invention. They have
spread around the world and the tendency
indicates that before long the British open
championship will be played on the Ameri-
can tournament method. Being our own,
the Yankee inventors have taken it as i
stands, but now that weightier matters have
been improved the creative brains are
turning to the Improvement Of open tourna-
ment methods.
Trayis's suggestion is on this line and it is
so delightfully."- convincing and practical
t hat golf committees, as the glee singers
have done for years, should soon be prais-
ing the Leaf her Bottell." Here Is a good
and equally simple plan to improve the
method Of posting up the scores on a medal
play day.
As n preamble, It may he mentioned that
medal play scoring is a work of art and
deemed a valuable thing in tournament
del ails. The names are on long strips of
ruled bank paper and one to hold a hundred
names will be at least six feet long. There
may be two such list e tackled on the scoring
board. Each players card is copied on
as he comes in, stroke by stroke, and the
in and aggregate totals filed in. II n
{ hirt y-six hole contest there must be spaces
for both he morning and afternoon rounds.
The committeeman take turns in calling of,
checking n pencilling the cards
This is an easy task 80 long as { he penciller
works at names on a fair height, but the
work becomes more troublesome when he
has to bend down, and finally to sit on his
" hunkies," or else lie down fat to All in the
spaces, Manifestly he stout bulle-
in boerd may not be raised or lowered, nor