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Show How Harry Vardon Started In Golf. Harry Vardon, tho English golf expert ex-pert and one of the best players ever known, began to play golf when but a more boy. His fondness for tho game did not meet with parental approval, ap-proval, and no money was forthcoming forthcom-ing for clubs or balls, so the boy Interested In-terested his fellows In the game, and they laid out a four-hole links on some waste land and manufactured their own clubs. White marbles had to servo as balls, and, as few of them had opportunity oppor-tunity to play In tho daytime, most of the games were played when tho moon favored. Ono of the players was sent ahead to mark the place where the balls fell, and then would return to the tee for his own stroke, while tho others watched for him. It was several years before they camo Into tho possession of real clubs and balls, given them by older golfers, golf-ers, for whom they caddled, but tho training on the mlnlnturo too with marbles for balls had given Vardon a start w)ilch at twenty-flvo made him the champion professional player. |