Show GOLF STORY STIRS premier asquith reported to have played on sunday quick contradiction causes some of the english publishers to be suspicious king edward has a similar experience london premier asquith s recent motion in both westminster and fleet golfing experiences caused a big com street through a mistake in tele the premier was understood to have played his record three hours round at links on sunday afternoon now the question of sunday playing la still a burning one and although in many clubs it Is permitted it the players act as their own caddies there Is tremendous section of the population which regards the sunday golfer as one disregarding the sabbath great vas the excitement through out england monday when the reports of the premiers sunday golfing were read and the nonconformist conaci ence which has been a bane to many liberal premiers waa touched to the gulck the liberal electoral organizers at westminster at once realized that if sunday golfing by their leader was to be added to their other lies the results in the general election were a foregone conclusion air asquith was to and promptly replied the report was erroneous and thereupon the news agen lies and newspapers were afkend in hot baste to kill the story on the wing the form in which the n as sent out was unfortunate as it suggested tug that the whole story of As play waa incorrect those re lor ta publication stuck to their guns and excitement ran high it was ascertained that what mr asquith wished to deny was that he had played golf on sunday it was saturday afternoon that he baad a game aln edward has justham an expert ence of a similar kind on his return irom Marien bad before go ng to don paster the king paid a visit to the marlborough club this Is the only club in which bis majesty retains ac live membership though of recent years he has been rarely seen there his ono time favorite corner in the racking room has always been re nerved tor him and even bis favorite once abear he makes a point of din ing at the marlborough and the sun lay after his return from Marien bad was this year elected lor the occasion the dinner waa served tor tour and ilter wards the party sat down to tn adge ow king edward lukea his loyal subjects to know what b Is doing mid instructions were given that a paragraph was to be communicated to the press relative to his maje visit 0 o the marlborough club it happened that the person who framed the paragraph mentioned that itter tha dinner his majesty had played bridge it was just upon night when one member of the royal circle possibly it was the king him belt noticed the unfortunate circum stance that the bridge playing had been mentioned telephones were called into requisition and pedal mei dispatched to fleet street and after a considerable flurry the item was deprived of its dangerous adden aum ium |