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“ Far and Sure.” “ Far and Sure.” [R egistered as a N ew spaper.] Price Twopence. No. 254. Vol. X.] FRIDAY, MAY 24TH, 1895. [Copyright.] 1 or. 6d. per Annum, Post Free. May 25, 27 & 28.— Royston : Whitsuntide Meeting. May 27.— Wanstead Park : Foursomes Competitions. Warminster : Monthly Medal. May 28.— Waveney Valley : Monthly Medal. Burnham : Monthly Gold and Silver Medal. Cumbrae : Ladies’ Medal. May 29.— Windermere : Whitsuntide Meeting. West 1 ancashire : Monthly Competition. Wakefield : Ladies’ Monthly Medal. Bowdon : Ladies’ Competition. May 30.— Royal Cromer : Monthly Medal. Hampstead : Mixed Couples’ Match. Bentley Green : Monthly Medal. Royal Guernsey: Monthly Medal. Wellingborough : Monthly Medal. St. Andrews (Yonkers, U.S.A.) Decoration Day Handicap Seaford v. Chislehurst (at Chislehurst). Romford : Ladies ; Raphael Prize. May 30 to June 3.— Royal West Norfolk : Whitsuntide Meeting. May 30, 31, & June 1. - Carlisle and Silloth : Silloth Monthly Handi­ cap ; Chance Medal. 1895. M AY. May 24.— West Cornwall Ladies : Club Prize. JUNE. Fnfield: Ladies’ Handicap. May 25.— Ilkley : Monthly Medal. June I.— Muswell H ill: Monthly Medal. Finchley v. Hampstead (at Finchley). Rochester Ladies v. The Hermitage. Leasowe : Mr. J. E. Perrin’s Prize. Raynes Park : Monthly Medal. Redhill and Reigate : Sir Trevor Lawrence’s Badge. Minchinhampton : Medal Competition. Ealing : Monthly Medal. West Middlesex : “ Bogey ” Competition. Royal West Norfolk : Monthly Meeting. Royal Liverpool : Monthly Medal and First Class Optional Glamorganshire : Monthly Medal. Subscription Prize. ; Wanstead Park : Monthly Medal. Woodford : Captain’s Prize and Monthly Medal, Royal Eastbourne : Monthly Medal. Lytham and St. Anne’s : Treasurer’s Cup. Warwickshire : Monthly Competition. Fairfield (Manchester) : Monthly Competition. Derbyshire v. Charnwood. Chester: “ Bogey ” Competition. Buxton and High Peak : Monthly Medal. Hythe : Monthly Medal. Chester : Third Monthly Competition. Neasden : “ Bogey ” Competition. Kemp Town : Monthly Medal. Birkdale : Medal Competition. Huddersfield : Monthly Medal. London Scottish : Monthly Medal. Sidcup : Monthly Medal (First and Second Class). Tooting : Monthly Medal. Chislehurst : Monthly Medal. Macclesfield : President’s Challenge Cup. Birkdale : Captain’s Prize. Broughty : Monthly Medal. Taplow : Monthly Medal. Bull wood : Monthly Medal. Crookham : Monthly Medal. North-West Club (Londonderry) : Monthly Medal. Royal Wimbledon : Monthly Medal. King’s Norton : Monthly Challenge Cup. Cinque Ports: Monthly Medal. Raynes Park : Monthly Medal. Moseley : Monthly Medal. Burnham: “ B^gey” Competition. Neasden : Monthly Medal. Bull wood v. East Finchley (at Bull wood). Royal North Devon : Monthly Medal. Rochdale : Mr. Slack’s Cup. West Herts : “ Bogey” Competition. Clacton-on-Sea: Monthly Medal and Aggregate Competi­ Royal Epping Forest : Gordon Cup ; Captain’s Prize; tion. Monthly Medal. June 1 & 3.— Enfield : Summer Meeting. South Shields v, Heaton. June 1 & 3.— Littlestone : Purves Gold Medal and Tubbs Cup. Timperley : Silver Claret Jug. June I, 3 & 4.— Ilkley : Steinthal Cup. East t inchley: Captain s Prize. June I, 3 & 4.— Great Yarmouth : Whitsuntide Meeting. Enfield : Final Competition for Club Medal. June 1 to 4.— St. George's (Sandwich) : Whitsuntide Meeting. Seaford v. Beckenham (at Woodside). June I & 3.— Wanstead Park : Whitsuntide Meeting. Burnham : “ Bogey ” Competition. June I & 3.— Lytham & St. Anne’s : Whitsuntide Meeting. Romford : Captain’s Prize. 1 June 3.— Rochester Ladies : Medal Winners’ Challenge Cup. 190 GOLF May 24, 1895. LE GOLF EN ANGLETERRE* must ruefully confess that the French have caught the proper spirit infinitely better than some of our own compatriots, many of whom in “ la courtoisie,” are still In October, 1894, we took occasion to notice the appearance “ sadly to seek.” No mere analytical process offers of a French book upon Golf, by M. F. W. Mariassy ; this a satisfactory explanation of the witchery {Ve7isorcellement) of being the first time, so far as we know, that the subject has this game which holds the world in thrall, threatening to outvie been treated by any writer in a language other than English, all other sports in popularity, remarks, in effect, M. Mariassy; and the fact is sufficiently significant as indicating the wide­ nor can you hope to gain adequate knowledge in a day, there­ spread popularity of the game. We now have a second and fore on the necessity of repeated visits to the links, our author larger edition of the same work. The author rejects the strongly insists. The subtle charm of the game is traceable, he temptation of making any serious incursions into the domain says, to the admirable balance of luck and skill ; more of the of history, etymology, and the like, contenting himself with the one, and the game would be degraded to the level of mere remark that all games with balls and clubs, of whatever games of chance ; too much of the other again, the rigorous antiquity, be they paganica, cambuca (a club, not a game), precision of the mathematician, or the man of science, and it choie, jeu de mail, shinty, pell-mell, or kolf all differ from Golf would cease to be a recreation. Individual freedom has the in one vital essential— the existence of the hole— an observation fullest scope. At other games, everything is planned out and which we do not remember to have met with elsewhere. The measured beforehand— size of bats, balls, dimensions of courts, same originality, however, cannot be claimed for other passages, height of net, and so on- but at Golf every man is a law unto many of which very forcibly suggest an almost literal transla­ himself, “ et c’est ici qu’on peut vraiment dire que le génie est tion of words and clichés with which every one acquainted with au-dessus de la grammaire.” Still we may remark that the the literature of the game will be entirely familiar. Thus Mr. size of the holes is now settled by law, though the observation Andrew Lang has no doubt smiled a kindly recognition upon is true enough in other respects. “ Ance a baillie aye a baillie,” this sentence :— and so it is with the golfer ; once on the links, and he has a respite from all manner of mundane worries and troubles, and Il paraît même que les nouveaux-nés alors qu’ils subissent les affres albeit post équite7n sedet atra cura, she can not muster pre­ de la dentition, ne se laissent calmer qu’avec un manche de club qu’on leur donne à mordiller et à sucer. sumption enough to bestride the golfer or his caddie. The many advantages of the game are marshalled in view, and Nearly his own words in the garb of old Gaul. sundry remarks of indubitable truth are to be met with, as, “ La Mr. James Cunningham, quoted somewhere by Mr. Horace force animale pure n’a jamais produit un golfer ; c’est l’adresse Hutchinson, has enriched the world by his epigram, “ Driving et la tour de 77iai7i qui font presque tout ” ; or again, “ N’essayez is an art, iron play a science, but putting is an inspiration ; ” but pas d’apprendre tout seul.” Technical terms, in the author’s the subtle essence of this dictum is dissipated, when the view, for the most part, are better left untranslated. A writer in sentence is expanded from the particular to the universal, “ Le the Saturday Review some years ago, in noticing a French Golf est une science, un art, et une inspiration.” book on racing, remarked, “ it requires considerable nerve to Again, contrasting the respective methods of the Englishman translate ‘ winning-post ’ poteau gagna7it; nevertheless, as it and the Scot, M. Mariassy does little more than translate Mr. appears, this is correct” Similarly the Englishman in his Hutchinson’s remarks on what that gentleman has sometimes French essay on Golf will not foozle a lofting-iron shot if he called “ the grand manner the Englishman has flung it all says fer à élévation; but if he does foozle into the “ Principal’s to the winds. Nose,” he is at liberty to allude to his mischance in “ Le Nez A jeté la solennité par-dessus les moulins. Il s’habille de flannelle du Proviseur” ; or if he finds himself in “ the Maiden” at fantaisiste, ne dédaigne pas les manches de chemise, court parfois après Sandwich, he may describe her as “ La Pucelle,” wh:ch may sa balle, et ne croît pas déroger en lançant un petit mot' de facétie à suggest the reflection that not for the first time has an English­ l’endroit d’un adversaire qui se trompe. man suffered at the hands of one bearing the name. You may Of the multiplicity of irons in modern play, “ Ne dirait-on pas describe the tee as poteau de départ, or the links as le courre; but une trousse de dentiste géant.”— Badminton book first edition the vernacular will serve your turn when you are in a “ bunker.” p. 64. Of different ways of handicapping, “ Préférer se réserver On the translation of “ the oaths which it is customary to employ le droit à n’importe quel moment critique du jeu de son in the sands of the desert ” we are left unenlightened. If your adversaire, de lui crier tout à coup, booh ! booh! pour le opponent plays “ deux de plus,” you reply wich “ un retiré de désarçonner.”— Badminton p. 283. “ Le Golf était chose deux.” “ Le semblable” and “ l’inégal” follow, as of course. solennelle comme le mariage, et les atours choisis traduisaient If your friend hankers after handicap medals and cups, you tell le sentiment.’’— Badminton p. 383 “ Ne vous fâchez donc pas him “ sans le mâcher, qu’il chasse aux pots.” A few minor ou vous perdrez la partie”, is from Mr. Hutchinson, in errors may be pointed out :— P. 15 : Balls in general are “ Hints on G olf” ; and the advice, “ ne demandez jamais à slightly nicked ; but “ il y’en a de lisses.” The feather balls, of votre adversaire la permission de laisser votre femme et votre course, and early guttas were smooth, but there are now none in belle-mère vous suivre sur le Green ”, merely substitutes the use.
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