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Show NEW GOLF RULES CAUSE DlSCUSSiOH Royal .and Ancient Club Will Hold Meeting in Glasgow, September 29. IMPORTANT CHANGES TO BE MADE GOVERNING GAME Americans Are Greatly Interested Inter-ested as vto the Probable Rulings Slated. Tribune Special Sporting Service GLASGOW, Sept. 19. Tho proposed new rules of golf, which have created much discussion during tho last few months, came up for consideration at an extraordinary general meeting of tho Royal and Ancient club, held a few days since at St. Andrews, under the chairmanship chair-manship of Lord Stair. This meeting was arranged so that amendments to the draft rules, drawn up by the rules of golf committee, could be proposed beforo the formal acceptance of tho code at the usual half-yearly business meeting of the club on September 29. One of tho most important recommendations recom-mendations of tho committee was that the peualtv for "out of bounds" Bhould bo loss of "both Btroko and distance, and to this the meeting agreed. Both John Graham, Jr., the Scottish international golfer, and C. A. Palmer, the well known Birmingham player, had given notice of amendments to tho effect that tho penalty should bo the same as in the past, namely, loss of distance only. Tho view found considerable favor among golfers, because it was felt that an m-croaso m-croaso of punishment would lead to ultra-careful play when there was a chance of a competitor hitting a ball out of bounds; but tho argument of tho committee that a ball struck out of bounds ought to be as heavily penalized as a ball lost or lying unplayablo on the course, met with the meeting's approval. ap-proval. If the rule is accepted on September Sep-tember 29. as no doubt it will be, it will lead to an appreciable heightening of scores on some courses. When BTarry Vardon mado his record of 72 at the open championship of 1902, he drovo twice out of bounds at tho first hole. Ho did precisely tho samo thing at Pristwick this year. Important Amendment. An important amendment was that of J. T. Inpdis: "If a ball on tho putting put-ting green be in casual water, or, if thero bo casual water between it and the hole, the ball may bo lifted without penalty, and placed ny hand either directly di-rectly behind tho spot where tho ball lay in water, or in the nearest position which affords a put to tho hole without water intervening; but such position must not be nearer to the hole than the spot from which the ball was lifted." This also was accented. The committee themselves proposed in 1904 a rulo to tho same effect as tho above, but it was rejected. Tho committee recommended that the lost ball penalty should be the same in both match and medal play. This official of-ficial announcement presumably means that tho penalty for a lost ball in a match should be stroke and distance (tho 6ame as for a ball out of bounds), instead of tho present penalty of lost hole. Ta regard to section 3 of rulo 4, which reads: "When playing through the green, or from a hazard, a player may havo the line to the holo indicated to him. but no mark shall bo placed, nor shall any one stand on the proposed lino whilo the stroke is being plaj'ed." B. Hall Blyth proposed to delete everj'-thiug everj'-thiug after the words "indicated to him, and to substitute "by his caddie, his partner, or his partner's caddie." This was, after much discussion, defeated de-feated Old New Beat Record. Record. Record by 0:06:36 1-5 0:06:25 0:00:11 1-5 0:12:23 4-5 0:06:23 2-5 0:00:15 2-5 0:1S:40 4-5 0:1S.20 4-5 0:00:20 0:24:41 4-5 0:24:20 0:00:21 4-5 0:31:14 3-5 0:30-19 0:00:55 3-5 0:37:55 3-5 0:36:19 3-5 0:01:36 0:44:15 4-5 0:42:23 0:01:52 4-5 0:50:35 0:48:26 0:02 09 0;56:50 0:51:29 2-5 0:.02:20 3-5 1:03:06 2-5 1:00:34 0:02:32 2-5 record. 61 miles, 905 yards; beat record by |