Show ir SUNDAY oily c GULF a LE IS O 01 KI BY RESEARCH k 4 Records R cords Also Disclose Game as S Probably Oldest Competitive Com Com- ff Sport I CHICAGO Match 15 That Tha That t Sunday golf gol has been a moot question since the th game was youthful Is shown by researches of a a. student of the games game's history and golf has been played In Its present form torm probably longer than any oth other r. r competitive sport sportY Many by preachers pubIc pub pub- condemnations He-condemnations Uc Ic by b magistrates and even fines by judges have been uncovered uncovered uncovered ered from tram the lore of Scotland but also an antique writer of the native nathe heath Df of golf gol has recorded that no less strict a teacher than John Knox was not op opposed opposed opposed op- op posed to golf during the afternoon of the Sabbath The golf gol book of ot East Lothian contains the following about Sunday Sinday y golf gol In a country where golf golfIs Is 15 not now lOW played on the Lords Lord's da day Our pur Our greatest reformer John Knox who who was v vas as as an East Lothian man nian and a golfer did not believe In a Sunday observance that was wholly made up of of- religious lous exercises Tradition has hasIt hasIt It It that ho was seen more than once golfing on Leith links on Sunday aft art Certainly his Idea and the Idea of our early reformers rs was that the early part should be given to worship worship wor wor- ship in the house of God Cod and that after divine service s all were free tree to In Indulge Ind ind in- in d In bodily recreation On the other hand also back In the sixteenth century there was entered j In the there re records of ot the Kirk of hai hare bare that certain members were re reb b kit for or playing on the Sab- Sab bOthe and they not to use any IY on yo ye both and as they I had done except that If it they I they were tent to be with all nIl rigo rigour r t to the utter utter- I most utter utter-I |