Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-10-15
GOLF FOR DUCHESSEs
AND WORK|NGMEN
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& Vanderbilt and the marduise de Ganay
q she was often up at Am. practising
Her absorbed air and the earnestness
u With which she played suggested thai
great things depended on her every
move. Her boys. both of whom pay
well, We're sometimes with her. Tbs
Blenheim spanels to which the family
are 80 attached would find their way
sometimes to the course only TO be
hurried back to the house by an at
tendant.
Countess Torby. wife of the Grand
luke Michael OF Russia. Is an inveter-
ate golfer. She goes to North Berwick
each year to play on the course there
which Is pronounced by experts to be
the finest In the kingdom. Arthur Bal
four's friends say that " 1t came to Il
choice between giving up public life Or
game OF golf at North Berwick he
would abandon the former. The count
ess is often the partner of Mr.. Baifour
though he IL not especially keen on
playing with ladies'. The handles OF nll
her golf sticks are jewc!ed. Recently
she had one of her numerous tiarns
broken UP and set in her favorite CLUB.
AS y WEIGHT REDUCER.
1t was golnng, rather than dieting,
which restored to the duchess OF Man
chester the figure of her girlhood. Some
time ago when her grace was in Ameri-
ca her girl friends roundly scolded her
for the way in which she had allowed
herself to look the part of the matron.
Look at u.s." they cried. Sec how
we hnve retained our straight backs.
how we have maintained the lines OF
our teens. Shame on you. Take cxer-
else" The duchess loathes exercise, but
eli xub
was recommended to her as requiring
less exertion than anything else so 10
II she took. Now she has grown so
fond OF 1t that sho is out In NIL wealth
crs. often with the duke or little Wis
count Vaudeville. who Is becoming
quite Il clever player.
Lady dc Clifford. an interesting wild
ow, who before her marriage was a mu-
steal comedy nctress, is often seen on
Z the links. She plays n conscientious
game with keen interest.
The majority of women who golf,
dress in workman-like garments and
the thickest Of shoes. hear the
duchess of Marlborough found her.
heavy soled golfng shoes very trying at
first but like others she soon got used
to them. Golfing head gear Is rarely
becoming. The duchess of Connanght
and Princess Patricia contend them
selves with tweed hats or caps with
quill. The countess Torby and the duch-
css OF Marlborough wear more dccora- |
tive lnillinery--jaunty velvet trifles fit
ting close to the head with Paris" In |
delibly stamped on them.
CURE FOR WORRY.
Politicians play the game assiduously |
when relieved OF their parliamentary
worries and the cares OF state. Ono OF
the latest political recruits Is II. II.
. A %1,o prif,, ,y,ip tcfn n
n start OF about six months over Lord
Kitchener, but while Kitchener began
z his practise In peace, the prime minis
4 ter was initiated into the mysteries and
pleasures Of the game amid all the In
conveniences of political warfare. He |
went into tho country for the weekend.
The suffragettes discovered his re-
stalwarts to Interview him on tho |
"votes for women question. They |
found Mr.. Asquith on the golf links,
and he fed In terror. to escape their
persistent and inconvenient attentions.
A. J. Balfour. tho Conservative lead
err. IS quite n veteran, and. II not tho
best, is certainly the best known. play
or in the house OF commons. He won
tho parliamentary handicap IN 1884 and
agnin In 1897.
Only few days ago he and Mr..
Asduth had friendly game together
Mt North Berwick.
The Hon. Alfred Lvttelton. another
member OF the late Unionist govern
ment. has also recently taken to golf.
Mr.. Lyttelton came to his new lovo
with great athletic experience: for he
was the greatest tennis and racduets
player of his day, and has played for
ENGLAND both at cricket and football.
Sir Rufus rsaacs, the solicitor gen.
eral who will lead tho prosecution In
the Crippen murder trial. confcsses to
weakness for golf though, owing to
professional claims. he Is never likely
to become scratch" player,
AMERICAN GOLFERS.
Although American amateur golfers
of tho first water are rarely to be seen
in the big English tournaments. their
number being limited to two. Travis
and Byers, within the past decade, yet
every summer sees the Invasion of the
famous English and Scottish links by
hundreds OF American golfers of ability.
Their visits to this side OF the Atlantic
are made, In many cases. solely for the
OF playing over and becoming
acquainted with such famous courses
Mt st. Andrews and Westward IIo.
These visits in force to English links
by American golfers are a matter OF
recent years. Indeed they date really
from Trarss win of the amateur
of Great Britain. which
gave an enormous impetus to the inter-
est Americans had in golf as played on
this side of the water. The visit OF
Harry Vardon and other English pro-
fessionals of note to America also In
tcrested the American of means in the
English professional and part of the
time OF many Of those who now come
to England is spent In playing with
Taylor or Braid, or one Of the Vardons.
Only after such an experience does
tho true-born enthusiast believe that
his golnng education is on the high rond
to completion.
But It is not the fact of the Amerl
cana visit which surprises tho
so much as 1t Is the
of the transatlantic golfer. In
many cases the American brings an
automobile with him or, failing that.
hires one for the period of his stay.
BY this means he can be sure of losing
no time and Of crowding In play on
as many of the famous links as pos
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