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Show PLAYED WITH A GREAT MAN. Carnegie Regarded Tom Morris as Among the World's Heroes. As Is woll known, Androw, Carnegie Is a devotee of tho ancient Scottish gamo of golf and never misses an opportunity op-portunity to try his skill with stick nnd ball. When he was made a burgess bur-gess of St. Andrew's, along with Lords Elgin and Balfour of Burleigh, ho mado a point of visiting tho show-places show-places of the ancient city the cathedral, ca-thedral, tho castlo and the golf course. Among other clubmakera' places that of old Tom Morris faces tho home hole. There Mr. Carnegie was met and welcomed by tho Nestor of golf, old Tom, cap In hand. Mr. Carnegie hailed Tom ns "tho greatest man In the world," naming grpat soldiers, orators, or-ators, musicians, principals and professors, pro-fessors, mono of whom could compare with Tom Morris, the greatest golfer. Pulling out his card, Mr. Carnegie wrote on tho back of It, "To T. Morris, Mor-ris, king ot golfdom, from his loyal subject A. C," which old Tom accepted ac-cepted with his old-world courtesy. Mr. Carnegie bargained "with him for sets of clubs and for a match that ho might bo ablo to say: "I havo playod golf with old Tom Morris." |