The Scott family is the converse of the Hezlets, in that it possesses three golfing brothers and one sister; bhut the sister was the most highly distinguished of the four. It was said of the great Allan Robertson that he never was beaten—a proud epitaph. Tt might be said, and probably with greater truth, of Lady Margaret Scott. The Ladies' Championship was first instituted in 1893. In that and the two following years Latly Margaret entered the utmost.
Then—a female Alexander with no more worlds to conquer she retired. Undoubtedly she was a beautiful golfer, with a smooth free ing—something too long. accord ing to modern canons, but wonder-She played in the days of long skirts, tight waists, and stiff collars; and che overcome those handicaps and all her enemies into the bargain. Whatever the Miss Leitches and Miss Wethereds of future ages may accomplish, her Dinnacl is solitary and secure, of the three brothers, hap won cham Ir. Mic} ott, the youn
pionships too: When he was quite young, he went to Australia, and won the'Open Championship there twice and the amateur event four times. Since he came home, he has won the French Amateur Champion ship, and has been for years one of the best and most reliable amateurs Wwe "possess. His brother Osmund once reached the final of the Ama-tear Championship, and used to be reckoned the possessor of the most perfect swing in all the world of golf. It had the same freedom and Jgrace as his sister's; and even today, when he plays but rarely, would'as soon wateh"him hit a ball as aly man I know. Mr. Denys Scott, who comes between these two, fs also a good player—in his day a very good one, and is one of the very few golfers of my acoin putts "with hu tha: is to"say, with the left hand Below the-right: Tan not say when ther this peculiarity springs from heredity or environment joe for a joyous Christmas, or even "And I bet yer there's a whole lot jof married couples which would be tickled to pieces, if they found hanging on the Christmas tree Christmas morning instead of a full set of O. Henry from Aunt Ray with her love, a receipted bill for telephone service and toll charges the month of November, in-of long distance Fishbein added," "because comes right down to it, Blintz, i€ somebody has made up his mind to give a relation a Christmas present worth, we would say, for example, $6.25, y'understand, why should he waste his time shopping around in crowded stores trying to find somethin, tion probably won't when he could go right over to the Consolidated Gas Company and arrange to pay for five thousand cubic feet of illaminating gas at $1.25 per thousand jeubie feet to be consumed by the relation at his flat for cooking purposes during the year 1926, which the buyer could hope would be a Prosperous and Happy one by simply enclosing his eard with the Gas Company's receipt."
"Still, Blintz, the idea of giving Christmas presents at all, is that the person who gets one should have something to remind him of the sender, and what is there to remind you of anyone you are fond of in Five thousand cubic fect of gas?" Fishbein said.
Well, certainly you couldn't have engraved on it From Max to Hatti Christmas, 1924, and certainly, also, nobody is going to say: 'I hate to burn this two hundred cubic feet of gas; it's the last of the five thousand Poor Uncle Sig clay hasholom gave me before he got hit by the taxi,' y'understand," Blintz said, "but then how many Christmas presents are there that you could really and truly say actually remind you of the sender? Of purse, if you've got a relation which is one of the most prominent mortgages in the Bronx, we would say, for example, and he eas to send you a second mortgage secured by impro\ property, Fishbeln, you might rend over tie '20 days' interest clause and the 60 days' tax and assessment clause years afterwards and say how characteristic it was of poor Mr. Teitelbaum selig, but you certainly couldn't cry over it like if it would be a lock of his hair or something. And as for somebody sending you a safety razor for a Christmas present, the only person who could give it to you and expect that'you will be re-inded of him every time you put ina fresh blade is Mr. Gillette him-that, when somebody gives you a Christmas present, remembering him is the least pleasant thing about it, especially when next Christmas comes along." Fishbein said, "which fof moving and the limited amount fof wall space in the average flats makes a full set of books oF a sed= sized picture not an asset but ability, and if anybody receives. a sufficient quantity of auch presents, Blintz, what he sooner ov Inter gets, to remember the sender by is a bill {from a storage warehouse company for moving halt a van load of books and pictures inclad'nge lending and unloading $25, and two men for half a day, each at $8 per day per man, total $33."
WOE course, that's one way of ooking at it," Blintz admitted, "but there's always the other side to be considered with them staple Christmas-presents like books and pictur Fishbein, and that, is that they're {just so good next Christmas as they are this Christmas, so, therefore, if there ain't some stich' give-nway' in it an:
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