'A matter that ought to come up this season in the local golf world is the position of the annual inter~ port match between Shanghai and Hongkong. When over a dozen years ago the Shanghai Golf Club presented a trophy for the event conditions were very di similar comparison with to-day's. club to count in Shanghai the only club in existence—wa Shanghai Golf Club, while Royal Hongkong Golf Club included all the golfers of note and likely to uuttain to interport honours in the Colony. The position in Hongkong is very much the same to-day, but in Shanghai there are players of interport standard who do not belong to the Shanghai Golf Club. They may belong to Hungjao, or any other club, but so long as they do not belong to the senior organiza tion they are debarred from playing. in the in Such an expansion of golf interests in Shanghai was not in those days foreseen: ed the natural thing to interport a match between the Royal Hongkong Golf Club and the Shanghai Golf Club, for such to all intents and purposes covered the: ground, To-day it does not, and the, time has surely come to talk about revising conditions.
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