. Review of reviews and world's work. n who has anyphysical prowess left is tooold to play golf, for the rea-son before mentioned—viz., he need not be for-ever looking for an opponent of equal skill orunskillfulness ; he need only ask for as manystrokes a hole as are necessary to make a goodcontest of the match. Tlie tournament side of the game, except as a very rare test, is the least important, andprobably the most pernicious element in thegame. There was no amateur tournament inEngland until 1885, at Hoylake. The springand autumn meetings at St. Andrews, with amedal of small value as the pr
. Review of reviews and world's work. n who has anyphysical prowess left is tooold to play golf, for the rea-son before mentioned—viz., he need not be for-ever looking for an opponent of equal skill orunskillfulness ; he need only ask for as manystrokes a hole as are necessary to make a goodcontest of the match. Tlie tournament side of the game, except as a very rare test, is the least important, andprobably the most pernicious element in thegame. There was no amateur tournament inEngland until 1885, at Hoylake. The springand autumn meetings at St. Andrews, with amedal of small value as the prize, and minor andvery occasional meetings at other clubs,—thatwas all the tournament element there was, and,be it said, all there ought to be. We ought toknow who the best amateur and the best profes-sional players are each year. They, if they can,too, ought to go about a bit, playing on strangerlinks. But the mug-hunting, and the newspaperflapdoodle, and the innumerable tournaments,are far away from the simplicity and the charm. RoijrotliK cil from f. CourtLAK ? .y of Hirpcr \- Brothers. EWOOD GOLF CLUB, LAKEWOOD, X. .1. of the old game. Let eacli chib have its clubchampionship, and, say, one big event open tooutsiders if it be a really first-class links ; butthe whole spirit of the game, and much of itsvalue as wholesome exercise, are erone wlien menplay it for the notoriety it brings rather than for 464 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI^IEIV OF REVIEWS. its own sake. If glory, and your mug in thenewspaper, as my old commander phrased it, iswhat you are after, either in war or in sport,then the sooner you take off the shoulder-strapsand put away your golf-clubs the better for you,and the better for the war and the sport as is too good a game, and a game too de-pendent upon good manners and absolute fair-ness in playing it, to be sullied by the semi-pro-fessional mug-hunter. Men who are liable tosudden attacks of arithmetical paresis should bebarred out ruthlessly. Only
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