A great budget of correspondence from all parts of the country has
reached Mr. Punch concerning the suggestions put forward by famous
golfers with the view of modifying the predominant influence exercised
by putting in golf. A crisis is rapidly being reached and Government
intervention may be invoked any day.
Mr. Ludwig Shyster, of the North Boreland Golf Club, suggests that the
tin in the hole should be highly magnetized and the ball coated with a
metallic substance so that it might be attracted into the hole. Golf,
he contends, is a recreation, and the true aim of golf legislation
should be to make the game easier, not more difficult; to attract the
largest possible number of players and so to keep up the green-fees
and pay a decent salary to secretaries and professionals.
Hanusch Kozelik, the famous Czecho-Slovakian amateur, who has recently
done some wonderful rounds at Broadstairs, cordially supports GEORGE
DUNCAN'S advocacy of a larger hole. He sees no reason why it should
not be three feet in diameter, provided the greens were reduced to
eight feet square and surrounded with a barbed-wire entanglement.
Lord HALSBURY, who took to golf when he was over eighty and has only
recently given it up, writes: "The bigger the better 'ole."
On the other hand, Dr. Scroggie Park, of Kilspindie, strongly
advocates the abolition of the hole altogether and the substitution
of a bell, as in the old form of croquet. But, as he wisely adds,
variety, not cast-iron uniformity should be our aim. The principle of
self-determination should in his opinion be conceded to all properly
constituted golf clubs.
Lord BIRKENHEAD is all for maintaining the _status quo_ in regard to
holes and greens, but takes up a strong attitude on the improvement of
the water-supply. In this respect golf-architecture has hitherto been
sadly to seek. There should, he says, be at least one bathroom for
every twenty members.
We are obliged to hold over for the present the views expressed on
this burning question by Dame MELBA, Madame KARSAVINA and Madame
DESTINNOVA.
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"A departure from the bridal custom frequently noted since the
war, of having man bridesmaids, is being made by Lady Diano
Manners."--_Provincial Paper_.
We had not previously noted this custom, but are glad that Lady
DIANO--whose name also is new to us--is dispensing with it.
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An ex-Waac domestic named Mary Ann
Took a place with a strict vegetarian;
He cautioned her, too,
That beer was taboo,
But she simply replied, _"Ça ne fait rien. "_
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[Illustration: _He_. "WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO BY WAY OF PEACE
CELEBRATION?"
_She_. "MY DEAR BOY, WHAT _CAN_ ONE DO, EXCEPT JUST CARRY ON?"]
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