During the week over 100,000 crans of herring have been landed at the various Scottish ports, from Lerwick to Fraser-burgh. The cran measure contains approximately 100 herring—the precise number varies, of course, according to the size of the fish—so that within six days no fewer than 100 millions, of herring have been taken out of the northern waters, and every day that big total is being augmented. Big catches have their drawbacks, however, as the crews of five Buckie drifters, discovered when they lost their nets through the enormous weight of herring.
THE GOLF BALL PROBLEM, "The new generation will grow up without ever knowing golf as we have known it. The game will consist entirely of drives and pitches with a niblick, and the real art of the Iinks—iron play up to the pin will disappear." THis is the rather sorrowful state of affairs predicted by a member of tha Rules of Golf Committee with regard to the abnormal length of driving which can. now be achieved by the modern wee white ba'. Our legislators, itt would appear, are determined to solve, if they possibly can, the problem of how best to bring about a limitation of the power of the core.
Indeed, according to one leading golfing critic, some new and drastic legisla tion will be introduced before many months have passed. Most probably it will take thd tin of prescribing in some mea sure how the ball shall be constructed, a matter which, so far, has been left very much alone.
The solution of the problem, we are told, may be found in the enforcement of a solid centre to the ball. At present every well-known make has a liquid centre contained under pressure in a rubber bag, and enveloped in rubber thread wound under high! Pressure, with the cover clamped on also under pressure. And it is' beyond dispute that the first marked advance in the length of driving came with the introduction of the first soft-centre core. That was some 12 years ago.
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