Show GOLF STORY STIRS Premier Asqiiith Reported to Have Played on Sunday Quick Contradiction Causes Some of the English Publishers to Be SuspiciousKing Edward Has a Similar Experience London Premier Asqulths recent motion In both Westminster and Fleet tolling experiences caused u big coin Direct Through a mistake In telegraphing tele-graphing the premier was understood to have played his record three hours round at Lttlostono links on Sunday afternoon Now the question of Sunday playing Is still a burning one and although in many clubs It is permitted If the players play-ers act as their own caddies there Is a tremendous section of tho population which regards the Sunday golfer as ono disregarding tho Sabbath Great was tho excitement throughout through-out England Monday when tho reports of the premiers Sunday golfing were read and tho nonconformist conscience consci-ence which has been a bane to many Liberal premiers was touched to the quick Tho Liberal electoral organizers at Westminster at once realized that If Sunday golfing by their leader was to bo added to their other rcspoiislnill ties tho results in th9 general election I i were a foregone conclusion Mr Asquith was telegraphed to and promptly replied tho report was erroneous erro-neous and thereupon tho news agencies agen-cies and newspapers were acked in hot baste to kill the story on tho wing Tho form In which the contradiction was sent out was unfortunate as It suggested that tho whole story of As I qulths play was Incorrect Those responsible re-sponsible for Its publication stuck to their guns and excitement ran high until it was ascertained that what Mr Asquith wished to deny was that ho had played golf on Sunday It was Saturday afternoon that ho I bad a game King Edward has just hac an experience I experi-ence of a similar kind On his return tram Marlenbad before going to Don castor the king paid a visit to the Maryborough club > This Is the only club In which his majesty retains active ac-tive membership though of recent years ho has been rarely seen there His ono time favorite corner In the imoklng room has always been reserved re-served for him and oven his favorite chair Once a year he makes a point of dining din-ing at the Marlborough and the Sunday Sun-day after his return from Marlenbad Vas this year elected for tho occasion Iho dinner was served for four and afterwards tho party sat down to bridge Now King Edward Hkca his loyal 1 subjects to know what ho Is doing and Instructions were given that a paragraph was to be communicated to lie press relative to his majestys visit to tho Marlborough club It happened that tho person who rained the paragraph mentioned that after the dinner his majesty had played bridge It was just upon midnight mid-night when ono member of the royal circle possibly It was the king himself him-self noticed the unfortunate circumstance circum-stance that the bridge playing had been mentioned Telephones were called into requisition and special inov sengursdlspatched to Fleet street and after a considerable flurry the item was deprived of Its dangerous addendum adden-dum |