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Show GOLF. YE DU'FFER LAMENJETH. Break, break, break, All my clubs on my willing knee; I'd be pinched if my tongue Phould utter The thoughts that arise in me. Oh well for the caddy boy, That he's sneaked to the timbers tall; Oh woe for the bat-eyed kid When he hands me a long lost ball. And the whitened spheres sail on To the eighth green on the hill; But, oh, for the sight of a vanished ball, And the sound of a brat seldom still. Break, break, break, At the foot of the gulch, oh tee; But the whole-souled whang at that gol-ding ball Will never come back to me. v iv v In Mr. Wicks' 84 score last week, putting him Into A" class, is the lesson that all golfers must learn, the absolute necessity for patience and dogged perseverence. Through "off" days without with-out number, through periods of bad play that s were enough to discourage Colonel Sellers, Wicks has stuck to it until now his game is rounding out nicely. I do not consider the score a fluke. Ho will make lots of them before the season is over. & & & George Dark, known to his envious fellow-caildies fellow-caildies as "Darkey," is the aggressive wearer of the watch offered as first prize for the caddies' tournament, while the modest "Goo-Goo," whose name on the family records is Sydney Cook, took for his own the football, the second prize. Thus are the caddies made content, and more zealous in the search for another man's ball. & The qualifying round in the annual club cham- t pionship tournament will take place the second I Saturday in September. There probably will be more than one score under 40 for the first 9 holes, and perhaps under 80 for the eighteen. This year's scheme of play up to the semi-finals should be productive of more close contests that have ever taken place on the local links, and the lucky four who survive for the semi-finals will well deserve that honor. After that well, things will be doing. Personally, I think Thompson, Channing and Hale are almost sure to work their way that far, with the fourth place open to at least three club i Players. A. FOOZLBR. |