It is good to see the tracks being nid for a joke or a sample of humour worthy of the name, but the diffused Humour ix better' still. If it has a superior it is to be the entirely unconscious T have before an egg-lay competition vent from a certain quarter with the compliments of the Can you improve on that sample?
"Got oF "Golf."
Quite an interesting dissension has been taking place in Scotland fas to the proper pronunciation" of the name of our premier Scottish game, and the most author! opinions are in favour of "got or, even more Scottish, "gow! One of our oldest and best known golfers says—'I first tried to play that fascinating but elusive game at St. Andrews, in. the sixties, where I knew all the leading professional, including Old and Young Tom Morris, Jamie Anderson, Bobb Kirk, Tom Kidd, ete, and venture to say that not one of them ever pronounced it otherwise than got' It was the same with the crack amateurs of the day, such as Maitland Dougall, Gilbert. Mitchell Innes, Sir Robert Hay, Robert Clark, 'Tom Hodge, Colonel Boothby, and others. Golf was goff" to' them, whatever it might, be to English visitors. "othe seventies I used to play not in-Frequently at Musselburgh, on the famous old nine-hole course, where the same, pronunciation was in vogue among both amateurs and professionals.; Later on 1 joined the Prestwick Golf Club, where again I found, that goff" was the word used by everyone who knew [anything about the game, from old Charlie. Hunter downwards; and Tam glad to think that it still obtains there. Those who frefquent the numerous. golf courses (I fean't call them links) that have sprung up like mushrooms in recent years may play g-o-if, and good goff at that, but they might with "advantage follow the old Scots usage and pronounce the word according to the manner that prevails at the three famous centres mentioned above—a manner that has the sanction of Jamieson jand of the Oxford English Dictionary."
The Call of Sport. winter's work and winter games to holiday time and summer sports. There is every reason to suppose that the increasing popularity of games like golf and tennis will be maintained. Cricket is not played in Scotland to such an extent as it might be, More frequent. me troduction of teams from across! the Border might prove a. good missionary enterprise in stimulate ing interest in the game. In the realm of golf we are being prepared for the annual invasion from America in quest of the honours. Nowadays we to take the invasion seriously. But if the season is to continue the run of almost phenofmonally low scores put up in the Dig golfing events which have already taken place, we may hope Uiat our home competitors will secure a full share of the records.
Scottish Cup Final, A new name falls to be inscribed on the Scottish Cup; the jrdriconians defeated the Tiber-nians in the final of the national competition at Ibrox, Glasgow. As a rule these finals" are disappointing, and the one just decided was no exception. There were' Tong spells of listless play, and before the interval it was a general that the Airdrieunfa [then Leading by two goals to jrothing, hal settled the issue. As a matter of fact, they did that two minutes from the start, when, following a brisk attack, against which the Hibernian " defenders. made a poor show, they forced a corner, from which' a goal was headed by Russell. That blow was the most telling in the game, one from which the Tibernians. never recovered. True. they fought out the issue well in midfield, and kept the ball for long spells in Airdrieonian ground, but in, their progress to the final they' had not shown themselves to be a ready scoring side, and this was again manifest. Under the slashing defence put up by the Airdrieonians, they were never allowed to settle down. The Airdrieonians, on the other hand, were smarter in thei raiding, and perhaps lucky in fin ing the™Easter Road club's defence they made them pay for their mistakes, and it was really these that the game. There was little brilliant work seen. Airdrie thus close a most successful season, being also runners-up to Rangers in the League,
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