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Show GOLF AT SKA. J I "As I stepped nn dc, k from the salon one ninrnliig on my return trip riom nliioad said I'mnk M Morris of the Hook Hhop who urrlved In Chi, ign list week 'I heard a volte cry 'lou've allied u drlle- nnd you're In the grass' I'or a moment I w tunic i oil whether I was at e. u or on the Hxmour links ni home I saw n gray nu-nn whlili might have made n goo I goir links If II only hud been mil. I henvlng ngulnst the sky and Lands IJn.l last gllinpso of J.nglmil, itlsuppcarliig on our uenth-er uenth-er siunrter. Ho 1 wus qulle sure our vessel was n night out fiom London und nn Ihe op, n sen Hut theie were leople on deck uinloubl, illy playing Rolf i laying It wltli Hie nhsoibed euger air that marks the d, voire of the gamo on dry land ' Oicun gnlr Is one of tho noielllis of Iho trans-All mile summer sensnn It was lint liiirmluml on the boats of the Atlantic trnnsport line, and has been taken up entbusl istkully no the hirgcr steumiis of all lines Mi Mnirla illumed il-lumed nn the Mlnnelnnka II om) loos burden, COO feet fre m stem to stern, and with un after deck Son fe. t long nml 40 feet In beam (loir links had been laid nut on this de, k In the lee uf the labln The golf couise ntinut tho de, k " said Mr Morris ", , insisted of nine r Ir Hilar chalk mirks a foot lu dlnmeter In lieu of lades The golf bulla were shutHc-bnutd disks Hm Inches ucrosa und nn Im h thick The clubs were shullle-liourd ftl, ks with ends hollowed oul to III tho disks With thes clubs the disks weie sent sliding about links by vigorous tlioves Instead nf free strokes The harnids of the ourse vvrc rurnlshrd hy a vi heelhnuse :ux 10 feet In size, ventilators two hut then four don key engines, n rn I stall, spars, rolls of lopo nnd a galley way leading lo the ' 'J SM 'A aim. I player rould nuke a round M JsH of ilghte, n holes In half nr thrre-quar- Jg rHH lira of an houi Ihe third bole re- I'n'llWt qulied u display of skill nnd a slight tftfllaM knowledge or billiards It Iny snug be- teiffl H hind a group of big ventilator funnels. hKl4flH 'Ihe only wuy tu reach II In u stngln HnjiiH stroke wns lo dilve youi disk ngulnst 'jfKJH tho side of the nfter hutch und muke It ; i!K7M iiiriiin lowanl Hie hole In driving from IUHjaaai Iho fourlh to Hie llflh holea you had to Jlijil'Bi nckon Willi the wheelhouse ivhlih lay isW'iflW H Intween them In vinrklug buck from liflSslawi the laffrall lo the euoln you entered on tWlSlB B a little lumpulgn full nf dllllcult prnb. MHIB H lems 'Ihe way wns beset with such WL'litB luiiikcra aa it sleniii donkey a scuttln iiClXlB H over a galley way, a number of ventl- IriDlltaal bbbbI lutors nml a iuistuu lu making the ilvfB HjB final hole you dinvn your disk stiulght lijfi 'Hl from ono side uf Ihe deik In Ihe other i!H H through a Ihiee-foot ulley Ix-tween enb- .119' j.W In ami bat, h HiS! fli 1 If there waa a sea on and the boat I'ftSIIRjl aaaai rolled the dlltl, ultlia or pi iy heimnn til ilaffi coiupllcutel Then in driving you hud !'JI Jin H lo allow for the Hat or the deck If i j,l M ynur stioko was not aure there was the ,( nil H annoying possibility that your disk fill would Hun on edge nnd roll 100 feet nr I Iffl H so down the deck and fcttli up In the aTil snippers When the disk want Into tho fjlil gullcrs the playeis snid It wus '111 the n MS glass' tlEl ! 1 hero wna nothing but gnlr aboard eJH BH I from the beginning ot the voyugo to the (al. Hal lend lllllluids ihesa, whist and imker ',' I wire wnlv id nslde fnr rolf 1. very pus- it ' Cn senget heiutne ua brown ns a berry , aiL-ill H fiom (laying mlf on deck lu the wind ij'i'jjH BH and sun At times they almost fought H.ltifll for poaseaalou of the links We hud Pils mulch plays fnurroines and nne tour- ! i 1 Fl Bfl nntnent ' I hiriigo Itecord-Herald ''WfaQM H |