Show GOLF AN OLD GAME GAM Was Once Played in Holland on the Ice I Goes Back at tt Least Five So Popular r In Scotland In 1457 It Interfered With Other Games You have to be a n fine rider riller do you not to play golf goU was the Hie commonest question In regard to the game not I more e than 35 years ago ngo At that time the theman man who traveled about with n a set of golf golt clubs was an nn object of ot some astonishment to his hia fellow travelers traveler f And yet the game genie of golf golt according to fhe he lie new Encyclopedia Britannica goes goei back buck at nt least five centuries It IN Is portrayed ed h by early Dutch painters who generally showed It being played d onIce ou on Ice J 1 But one of ot the pictures In a Dutch Illumined d Book Dook of at Hours Houri no now In the British museum Is a painting of thrive three e men putting at a n hole in the turf as In our modem modern golf golt Although the Dutchmen played and und painted golf golt they did dill not write about It and aDd we have no records record describing the game Just when Scotland took up golf golt golfIs Is unknown but hut 1457 Jt it was already so popular says sn's the Britannica that It t Interfered interfered interfered in In- with the more important purr pur- sult of archery In Mn May 1471 an nn act of ot the Scottish parliament was leas passed forbidding this sport an and Golfe forbidden Item It is s and that In nn na place of ot the there be fute 1 ball fute-ball golfe or silk sports etc It Is rather curious that this Is an nn t edict of ot James Jumes IV who later became very much attached to the practice of the sport sport not not only oDly he but his U dl daughter Mary Stuart It was alleged b by her enemies as showing her shameless Indifference to the fate tate of ot her ber husband a vcr very few days after his murder she was seen playing golf and pall mail In the fields beside Se- Se ton tOD Golf Galt has from old times been known In Scotland as ns the Royal Roal and Ancient Game of Golf Man Many monarchs have han made It their favorite diversion and since Its introduction Into America all nil the presidents have found It a favorite form torm of exercise There Is still standing In Edinburgh a monument of ot the prowess of ot James II as a n golfer goIter After the Restoration James then duke of York was sent to Edinburgh in 1681 1081 as commissioner er of ot the king to parliament He was was chal clad challenged by two Englishmen nobles of ot othis his suite to pia play a match against them for tal a very large stake stoke along with nn any Scotch ally he might select With his partner who was one Johne Pater Pater- Pater sone a shoemaker the duke easily W won In the game He made over over half halt of the he large stake to his humble coadJutor coadjutor co-ad- co who herewith built himself a ahouse ahouse alouse house louse at No 77 Cannongate which hus has always been called Golfers Golfer's Land Lond |