In view of the part which stymies played in the final of the Golf Club championship on Sunday it is worth recalling the proposal of the American Golfing Association a year or two ago to eliminate the stymie altogether. The case put forward for this action was that in the vast majority of cases the stymie is purely accidental, and as such should not be allowed to influence the game. The obvious reply to this is that a great many other things in golf fare also accidental, a bad lie for instance, and once the principle is
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