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Show ft Some Kinks in Sport It Is a gorgeous story that comes from the golf links of Cairo, and every good golfer will hereafter carry a gun In bis bag ot clubs it be wishes to overlook no One points. After a splendid splen-did drive, a Cairo player watched the ball roll otcr the distant turf, when, to bla horrified am&zoment n crow swooped swoop-ed down and carried It aloft. The golfer and tho caddie put off In chase, tno caddlo cursing In fluid Arabic. Then, to tha delight ot the golfer, tbo crow dropped tha ball on tho green, and ha holed out In two strokos, wblcb put Colonel UorIo out of commission. The opponent was threatened with apoplexy. As In tho caso.of tha Indian football trick ot a player's) sticking tha ball undor his Jersey, the e waa every kind of rule In tha book. - xcept cn to cover the unexpected, an tho golfer's m.,j .1 KjjsassT .i it record, ably asslstod by his crowtblp, had to stand. Many years ago In England, Eng-land, bctoro a rulo was mada to fit a similar emergency In cricket. It ta related re-lated that a batsman knocked a ball Into a tall tree, whero it lodged In tha crotch of a limb. There was no climbing climb-ing the tree, and tho nearest axe was a half mile an ay Before It could be obtained and tho tree chopped dawn, tho man with the bat mado more than seven hundred runs, hurtling between the wicket! Ilka a human shuttlecock. Ho stopped scoring rnns then only because be-cause he ran himself nut ot strength and breath and fell on the turf, still feebly trying to pile up another run, with one weary eye cocked on the tree and al the opposing slda frantically trying to chop at once. Tha Illustrated Illus-trated Sporting Nows |