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Show ANCIENT GAME IS MAKING CHANGES Conventional Fashion la Followed by English. Coif It golf hut with Africa sinking sink-ing coffee tins Into the veldt and Carlo's babble echoing the merits ol the mesh-marked ball, the game hat changed since the old days of St. Andrews, An-drews, and local conditions, custom! und costumes have helped to alter It The hall must still be cajoled Into the cup, but the can may be set In the finest bent, In shining rand or in oil-soaked oil-soaked cottonseed hulls. The fairway is still the shortest route to the hole, whetlipr It he of crisp Bermuda grnss or sun baked rlny. And the rough spells trouble everywhere, though It may be a hedge or gorse or a thicket of cactus. England follows the game of her northern moors with utmost convention. conven-tion. No gentleman golfer is properly dressed except In long trousers, suspenders sus-penders and heavy tweed coat Professionals Pro-fessionals are forbidden In the clubhouses club-houses except on occasion, and the caddy saves his master's knees by teeing tee-ing the bull and extricating successful success-ful putt? from the cup. Things are less formal in Mexico, where courses are bare of grass and a floppy rubber tee Is used for fairway fair-way shots. Many green are of cottonseed cot-tonseed hulls. The fairway Is distinguished distin-guished from the .rough by a line of stakes. One's caddy Is a seraped peon, who parcels out his burden to a corps of naked assistants'. Needing a niblick, one yells for Tomaslna, and arriving on the green the golfer summons Eu-clliio Eu-clliio and the putter. Japan has Its championship courses, but the back-country missionary has a bard time convincing the natives that golf Is a game and not an Incantation. Incan-tation. In the Philippines barefooted Moros snatch up a ball In their prehensile pre-hensile toes and carry It through the rough with none the wiser. Itussla has bearded caddies, and India's In-dia's rajahs may swap rubles for putters. put-ters. But It Is In France thut the game attains Its greatest elegance. From "Le Golf one learns that "L. Dieppe" Is Leo Dlegel, and that M. le Jonkheer Shouck Hurgronje le champion cham-pion of Holland. |