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Show RECALLS FAMOUS GOLF MATCH Projected Game Brings Back Contest in Which Royalty Was Involved. The projected golf match between two well known amateurs and a leading lead-ing member of the London stock exchange ex-change for a stake of $2,500 recalls to the Westminster Gazette, the famous foursome in which the duke of York, afterward James II., took a prominent part on the Leith links in the year 1682. It was really an international contest, in which the duke, with John Patersone, a golfing shoemaker of great repute, championed Scotland against two noblemen of England, a heavy wager depending on the issue. The duke and the cobbler had an easy victory, thanks largely to the man of the last, and John Patersone's share of the stakes was so substantial that he was able to build a goodly house In the Canongate, in a wall of which the duke caused a stone to be placed bearing bear-ing the Patersone arms with the motto, mot-to, "Far and sure," a tribute to the cobbler's driving powers. Patersone's house survives to-day. |