'Love ox rut Fasnway A Romance of the 'Open' Champlonship.—By Archie Gompaton and. Stanley "Anderson. With a Foreword: by. Henry" Cotton and. Sketches by fforne. Laurie, London, 3/6.
As the tile would suggest, this a novel, strictly speaking, but it cannot Feally be classed as such. The authors have chosen an unusual and somewhat quaint way of wrapping a really clever textbook on golf, perhaps having borrowed the idea from the Montessori teaching method. Archie Compston and Henry Cotton, of course, need no introduction to Anyone who has got only so far as to know that golf is an extremely selentifie game, pastime, or labour, for theirs are "household names. It remains only to say, by way of introduction, that Mr. Anderson is very well-known amateur player.
Between them, they tell an utterly Impossible tale of a young author-golfer who is quite a good player in his own little club, but scarcely to Open Championship form, who falls in fave with a young lady labelled for the purposes of the story the most selentifie player in the world. A hard-hearted father Kicks hing writer out of the house bans the love-match, The young author then enters for the Open Championship to be play-St. Andrews, gathers up his £100 of savings and. backs himself to win for the lot at 800-1. Now, no bookmaker with any hope of keeping out of the Bankruptey Court would lay such odds to such an amount on an event which would give him small chance of covering, and certainly Archie Compston, with golf's surprises, would not seriously concede that "just a moderate amateur could win the Open Champ-fon ship. However, all this is just the background.
All the Winners When the championship comes off, the young lady caddies for her lover. She has a hypnotic way of conveying her own. ideas, and, as she is the world's greatest player, and her lover has the skill to understand her meaning and to essay the shots, even though ordinarily he would not expect to make them, he wins on the last green, the very sporting bookie pays. up £50,000, the happy pair are married, and the converted father engages the young author as his private. golf tutor. All through the qualifying and championship rounds, Archie Compston and his amateur adjutant manage to introduce practically the whole gamut of " golf strokes, plus the natural difficulties of St" Andrews, explain how, the coretically, they should be played, and then, through the players, how they fare executed. Sometimes a player: commits a fault and the stroke goes wrong, which means that the next stroke, if possible, must win back what has been lasi, which is explain ed in similar fashion. Thus' are golf lessons given in a really enter {taining manner, shorn of the dullness of technical language and sift diagrams. Golfers undoubtedly will value this little book m3,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.