A good deal of interest was taken in the play of L. Auchterlonie,*jun., St. Andrews, a slender youth of just over 16, who must have been inoculated with the golf germ in his cradle, for he is the nephew of the ex-Open Champion. He survived till the third round. One of his opponents was called Elder, and one of the little jokes passed was that "he could not well have been younger."
Another of the young men to make a good appearance was James Kennedy, Cambuslang, who is not yet 19 years of age, but got into the last 16, Rather below the medium height, he has not the breadth of shoulders usually looked for m successful golfers, but he gets a capital length by accurate hitting, and every time he strikes the ball it is with the dead centre of the club. What tells against these newcomers, of course, is that with every fresh round the unaccustomed physical and tempera-manta] strain becomes greater.
W. A. Sievwright, R. and A., had a quick despatch, but he discovered a good excuse for his defeat. Before the game began, Sievwright approached his caddie and gazed at his bag of clubs. "Have you been cleaning my clubs?" he demanded. "Yes, sir," answered the caddie. "Well, well!" sighed Sievwright, they haven't been cleaned for four years; go and get them dirtied!" 7
G. OG. Manford, Cuffness New, another fancied player, was knocked out by Mr. Stuart Forsyth, a well-known Edinburgh cricketer. It was rather curious to see the same suggestion of the cricket stroke in Forsyth's play as we have noticed in the case of Balfour Melville, of whom it was said that he played a golf shot at cricket, and 2 cricket shot at golf. There is a decided danger in such dual performances: the golfer may mis-
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