. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . GOLF: ST. ANDREWS. J67 We are bound to say that in the game, as it was our good fortune towitness it at St. Andrews, there was not much of the exul:)erance of youth ;but it was interesting to see how for hours the patient middle-aged players,attended by cadies carrying their sheaves of clubs, followed the little ballsover the sandy grassy links, never seeming to (luicken their p;ice, andonly showing the energy that was in them when the cluli was uplifted forsome mighty stroke, that sent the ball 180 yards or more towards its desti-nation. The re
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . GOLF: ST. ANDREWS. J67 We are bound to say that in the game, as it was our good fortune towitness it at St. Andrews, there was not much of the exul:)erance of youth ;but it was interesting to see how for hours the patient middle-aged players,attended by cadies carrying their sheaves of clubs, followed the little ballsover the sandy grassy links, never seeming to (luicken their p;ice, andonly showing the energy that was in them when the cluli was uplifted forsome mighty stroke, that sent the ball 180 yards or more towards its desti-nation. The rest was science ; and the skill with which the liny ball wassped to its resting-place was often really No one who has. St. Andrews Catiiedrai, : West Front. watched the game well played on these breezy uplands by the sea willwonder at its popularity. Any of us who could and would take easyhealthful exercise in the hnest of air, without mental distraction or excite-ment, for several hours together, through successive days of early summer,would find the result in the bracing and exhilaration of the whole system ;and it is into exercise like this that the game beguiles its votaries. But we shall be accused of giving way to the tendency of the times, bythus presenting St. Andrews as famous for its golfing ground, rather thanfor its University. This is the oldest in .Scotland, having been foundctl in i6S SCOTTISH PICTURES. 1411, and it has a noble record, as well as great present influence and does it maintain the traditions which attach to the earliest of the greatinstitutions which for centuries maintained the standard of general educationin Scotland so high above that of other nations. For th
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