The Marquis of Graham is £10 poorer. At Wembley Mike Hastings, a stalwart. cowboy threw a Highland steer weighing 800 Ib., specially chosen from the Marquis's herd and sent down from Scotland. The Marquis had wagered £10 that a cowboy could not throw such a ger Wethered's tie with Hutchison ste steer in one minute, the sum to be At St. Andrews in 1921. It is a|paid to the cowboy if successful, great service Tolley has done to and Mr. Tex Austin to pay £10 to amateur golf, It is an even greater London Hospital if unsuccessful. service to British golf. For he won It all happened quickly. The high out of a field which included Hagen, stout wooden gates of the stea Sarazen, Duncan, Frank Ball, Boom. stockade were no sooner opened than ex, Massey, and' some other very what appeared to be a tawny streak notable players, and by winning he dashed straight sevoss the arena, prevented Hagen conveying to Ame- flanked on each side, it seemed, by jea the impression that his success tio horsemen—one the judge and at Hoylake could be repeated just the other the competitor. The apecfs often as he cared to try. jftators had scareely' time to breathe As every golfer knows, Bir. Tolley sleep-toned "Ah" before Hastings is a post-war product, but his pre- ad flung himsel€ from his galloping, war history and how he began is mount and gripped the swaying hot generally known.
Tt was. as head of the steer. It would be hard early as five years old that he first 9 sux which was the more aston Decame acquainted with the game, shed ut the quickness of the move-the old Blackheath course. Mr. Tol- For a moment the steer stood stock which his father used to play on ent—the spectators oF the ate ley was London-born, and because I. and his attacker taking full hho was a delicate boy, an image a age, almost succeeded in get-Tittle diffeult to conjure up, his|ting the animal down.
Indeed, family took him at the age of nine 84% actually off its feet, but. with urns ai here supreme effort recovered, and it rage 1 Guna looked an it: Hastings was' beaten ud waa: oat eet aero opportunities for golf practice, turn the steer, force it upon its When he was Li he was made n; *ies and ro beat it to the stound. here.
of his first club, and was the Highland steer wax matt a handicap of 16. Then io in stature, to win, Three seasons Inter x Newfoundland dog, it was sturdily place where we corn it and be he played for the first time in the built.
Its shaggy brown coat and taxed acoin Sussex County Championship w horns marked it out from th a handicap of two, When the war siurtshorned, and straijeht-haired Sie hn cov me iby Me hedien Mire one, os at we hold im not ris Its erin of ape Teli mal times have heard of him before any thing faster than that of the dine He Slned the Tans at rae tend sot Court O.T.C., obtained " commission It had been wounded that an|city crowd. inthe Tonk Corp and ent ae sttmpt weeld be France tthe bentnong of DIS theo He was in the fighting at Ypres; boys were inclined to accept the and Cambrai, was smashed up ut challenge, ds the year, and spent the next 13 months w is Germ sues that it simply clearish bull-ving. Tolley narrates in his book, "The ed the arcus of tureadors, matadors, Modern Golfer" how he curse back ni all the attendants, to the game. On Christmas Day 1918, two days after his return to American "Brithers"
England, he played his first round en patriotism is observed on the Willingdon course, near!" 4 colossal seal The Order of Eastbourne, sending his drive about Scottish Clans, for instance, a dozen yards, his second about 30 ase object and constitution are yards, and his third with a terrific obvious Crom its designation, boastn slice out of bounds. But shortly membership of 25,000.
With iiletennie he can tinea Americans coming aver here toe wit thousands. it avrecord for members of the Order should par-afterwards he entered for his first for ticipate in the exodus, and the idea hig open competition, the Golf fil has therefore conceived and strated Vase contest, in which, 1s developed of making the visit of he says, he "faded gracefully away these Seats domestic affair. after Iunch," and in which he first der the aegis of the Order a large saw Mr. Roger "Wethered, und, Party will arrive in Glasgow early greatly "wondered, watching his in August for a two months' stay. magnificent long game, who he was, An official welcome is being: arrang-Mr. Tolley then went to Oxford, el in Glasgow, and on the occasion where Mr, Wethered was golf cap: the party's visit in Edinburgh, tain, and 30 began one of the most Inverness, and London Arrange remarkable coincidences in talent in Ments for this Inst are being under-the whole range of University golf. don. whose message of welcome has taken by the Highland Club of Lon The Scottish Coronation Stone. can hvoudeast throughout the New Inv. Kirkwood, the Clydeside So- World. fu thanking the club. for dalist, made a determined but un- its kindly greetings a member of the successful attempt in Parliament to committee of the Order valse the question of the retention *Never before in the histo by England of the Scottish Corona- Order has such a gathering of the tion Stone. The Stone is the pro-|¢lans set sail for the homeland, perty of His Majesty, and, no Gov- ud the jubilant anticipation of our eynment has the power to interfere reception in Scotland will prove the
Kirkwoodswas visiting Westminater the arid o'er shall brithers be for the fatter, "It appears that Mr. immortal words that man and man Abbey, and, deciding to have a look {a' that." lat the historic Stone, wended his way to that part of the building
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