Evening star., 1925-11-01
tn HE young man in The club
house smoking room was in
clined 10 be bitter.

house smoking room was IN
clined 10 be bitter.
IF there's one thing that
gives me a pain squarely in
the center of the giZzard. he burst
out, its a Solf-lawyer. They ouGhtn
TO be allowed on the links
The Oldest member raised his eye
br7ws.
THE law" he said. "is an honorable
profession. Why should its practition-
ers be restrained from Indulgence in
the game of games?"
II don't mean actual lawyers" said
the young man. Il mean the blighters
whose best club is the book of rules.
You know the sort of eNCreScenceS.
Every time YOU think you've won Il
hole, they dig out rule S53, section >.
subsection 1, to prove that you We dis
qualified yourself by having an i'll
growing toe-nail. Well, take
my case" The young mans voice was
high and plaintiVe. Il so out with
that man HemmingWay to play an
ordinary friendly round-nothing de
pending on il except a measly ball
and on the seventh he pulls me up
and claims the hole simply because |
happened TO drop my niblick III the
bunker"
The sage shook his head.
Rules are rules. my boy, and must
be kept. 1t is curious that you should
have brought up this subject, for only
q. moment before YOU came in l was
thinking of a somewhat curious match
which ultimately turned upon IA ques-
tion of the rue-book. 1t is true that,
as far as the actual prize was con
Cerned. it made little difference. . .
But perhaps | had better tell you the
whole story from the beginning"
The young man shifted uneasily in
his chair.
well. YOU know. I've had a pretty
rotten time this afternoon already
Il Will call my story" said the Sage
TRANQUILITY, THE Long Hole" for it in
volved the playing Of what l am in
clined to think must be the longest
hole in the history of golf"
Il half promised TO go and see a
But I will begin al the beginning, "
said the Sage. 'I see that YOU are all
impatient to hear the full Details
Rollo Bingham and Otis Jukes tsaid
the Oldest Memhel had never been
friendS-their rivalry was too keen To
admit of that-hut it was not till
Amelia Trivett came to stay at Man
hOoSet that a smoldering distaste for
each other burst out into actual
ennity. 1t is ever SO. In the weeks
iildJ lbllu"eU nef arrival, nelnS IN the
same room with the two men was like
dropping in on a reunion of CapuletS
and MOntaGueS.
You see. ROllo and Otis were so eX-
actly equal in their skill on the links
that life for them had, for some time
past. resolved itself into u silent, bitter
struggle, i'll which first one then the
other gained some slight advantage.
II Rollo won the May medal by a
stroke. Otis would be one ahead in
the June competition. only to be noScd
out again in July. 1t was a state
of affairs which, had they been men
of a more generous stamp, would have
bred a mutual respect. esteem and
even love. But / am sorry To say that.
apart from their golf, which was in
e class of its own as far as this
neighborhood was concerned. Rollo
Bingham and Otis Jukes We're nothing
less than a couple of unfortunate
Incidents. A sorry pair-and yet, mark
YOU, far from lacking in mere super
fetal good looks, they were handsome
fellows, both of them, and we'll aware
of the fact and, when Amelia Trivett
came to stay, they simply Strengthened
their ties, twirleG. their mustaChes and
expected her to 90 the rest.
But here they were disappointed.
Perfectly friendly though she was to
both of them, the loveliGht was con
spicuOusly absent from her beautiful
eyes. And ii was not long before
each had come independently to "A
solution of this mystery. 1t was plain
to them that the whole trouble lay
In the fact that each neutraliZcd the
others attractions.
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TT had not occurred to me at the
outset that my position in the
affair would be anything closer than
that of detached and mildly inter
ested spectator. Yet it was to me that
Rollo came In his hour of need.
'Manhooset." he said, lis too small
FOR Otis JukeS and myself"
''Ah, you have been talking il over
and decided to move?" I said. delight,
ed. Il think You are perfectly right.
ManhooSet is overbuilt. Men like you
and Jukes need a lot of space. Where
do YOU think of going"
I'm not going"
But l thought you said. e"