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Show GOLFER KEPT SABBATH HOLY Alexander McKellar, Enthusiast of An. cient Game, "Collected" Ball in the Plate. Golfers of the old school vere very familiar with the name of Alexander McKellar, perhaps the greatest enthusiasts enthu-siasts the royal and ancient game ever had. AH day and every day he played over the Bruntsfield links, and at night he found it so difficult to relinquish his beloved game that he played the putting put-ting course by candlelight. Yet all this devotion to golf notwithstanding, he never became a great player. The Sabbath was strictly observed by him, and on that day he acted as doorkeeper doorkeep-er at a church in Edinburgh. One Sunday Sun-day morning Douglas Gourley, a well-known well-known golf ball manufacturer, came to the "kirk" and, instead of his usual donation, he placed a brand new golf ball on the plate which McKellar extended. ex-tended. It requires but a small flight of imagination to determine what became be-came of that ball. |