. The complete sportsman (compiled from the occassional papers of Reginald Drake Biffin). Horses. 146 THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN have committed, he has not moved his head. That occasionally, even in such circumstances, his stroke falls short of perfection may be accounted for by the fact that he has pulled his arms in, pushed his elbows out, shifted his feet, altered his stance, lost his balance, or been guilty of one or other of the thousand minor crimes with which the path of the golfer is ever beset. The top-hat method, however, possesses cer- tain inevitable draw- backs, some of which are so p
. The complete sportsman (compiled from the occassional papers of Reginald Drake Biffin). Horses. 146 THE COMPLETE SPORTSMAN have committed, he has not moved his head. That occasionally, even in such circumstances, his stroke falls short of perfection may be accounted for by the fact that he has pulled his arms in, pushed his elbows out, shifted his feet, altered his stance, lost his balance, or been guilty of one or other of the thousand minor crimes with which the path of the golfer is ever beset. The top-hat method, however, possesses cer- tain inevitable draw- backs, some of which are so patent as scarcely to require mention. I remember once at Sandwich, when I happened to be wearing the sleigh- a bell form of headgear, and was strolling along the fairway in a very musical fashion, a parlourmaid came running out of an adjacent villa, under the impression that I was the local muffin-man, and, pressing sixpence into my unwilling palm, besought me to supply her with half a dozen of my choicest crumpets for her mistress's afternoon tea. Not happening on this particular afternoon to have. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Graham, Harry, 1874-1936. London : E. Arnold
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