Related article: were somewhat less plentiful than now, Sir Walter Simpson's work was regarded with an interest, and accepted with an authority only second to that of Mr. Clark. The Championship Meetings will be held this year, both in the month of June, the Open Championship at Sandwich and the Amateur Championship at Prestwick. An excellent ar- rangement has been made by the St. George's Club by which the competition for the St. George's Vase, open to amateurs, will be held on the day before the Open Championship. It is to be antici- pated that this will contribute to the success of both contests, and particularly that in the case of the Open Championship it will lead to a large entry of amateurs. The locus for the Ladies' Cham- pionship this year is Newcastle, county Down, where the ladies will be able to enjoy not only first-class golf, but also magnifi- cent scenery. The Mourne Mountains are the background of the links. A match has at last been arranged between Harry Vardon and Willie Park, junr. The two are to play 36 holes at North Berwick in the first week of July, and the same number at Ganton a fortnight later. The arrange- ment leaves a good deal to be desired both in the matter of time and that of place, but having regard to all the pother and ex- cess of partisanship which pre- ceded it, I fancy most impartial outsiders will not be disposed to make any complaint. Park is changing his headquarters from Musselburgh to North Berwick, so that before the match the latter will have become his home green, while in the case of Var- don, the Yorkshire green has been his home for several years. The Tooting Bee Club is 66 BAILY S MAGAZINE. fjANUABY threatened with the loss of its ground at Furzedown. The lease extends to 21 years, but unfortu- nately it contains a provision enabling either party to break it at the end of 14 years, and negotiations are in progress for the purchase of the ground by a builder, who no doubt, if he completes the purchase, will exercise his option. The Club has been in possession for ^bout seven years, and it is only now that it is getting the full return of its very considerable expendi- ture on drainage and other works. The loss of the ground will be a sore blow to golfers in London, and especially to our Parlia- mentary golfers, who play a great deal at Furzedown during the session. The observation that "golf is not agriculture " has received the sanction of the Eccles Town Council. The Worsley Golf Club petitioned that body to have its .links, which are within the muni- cipal boundary, rated as agricul- tural land, but the Council, evidently knowing something about the game and how in theory it ought to be played, dismissed the petition. The decision will no doubt be carefully cherished by the Earl of Wemyss and other landlords who object to their land being ploughed and harrowed by modern implements of golf. It is designed that the next competitions for the challenge cups presented to Manchester golfers by Mr. Arthur Balfour and Sir William Houldsworth, shall be played over the new course of the Manchester .Golf Club in Trafford Park. No more central or accessible ground could be chosen, and it is satisfactory to learn that the Club is rapidly getting the course into splendid condition — this in spite of the somewhat heavy soil. The Christmas Shows.— The best that can be said of the fat- stock shows, which commenced at Norwich in the middle of November and culminated at Islington three weeks later, is that they excited as much Buy Cheap Isoptin Sr interest as ever, and that, as regards the quality of the exhibits, there was little falling-off. But when this admission has been made one is fain to confess that neither at Birmingham, which was cele- brating its jubilee, nor at Isling- ton, where the Smithfield Club held its Centenary Show, were the entries of stock so numerous as had been anticipated, nor was the merit so great as to cause 1898 to be marked with a white stone by stock breeders. It was, in short, just an average year, and the Nor- wich Show, which is usually the most " cheery " of the series, lost much of its social enjoyment this year, owing to the absence, through indisposition, of the President, Major G. N. Micklethwait, who, though absent in the flesh, was present in the spirit, and enter- tained all the stewards, judges, and other officials at luncheon on the opening day. Greatly missed, too, was the pleasant presence of a former President and liberal Buy Isoptin Sr sup- porter of the Show, this being, of course, the late Mr. J. J. Col man, whose Shorthorns, Red Polls, Crossbreds, and Southdown sheep have for so many years had almost uninterrupted success, and which were destined to gain posthumous honours for their much regretted owner last month. For while Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild, the news of whose tragically sudden death reaches us as these lines are being written, won Major Micklethwait's prize for the best steer, with a very nice three-year-old Cameronian, the latter had to succumb to one of the late Mr. Coiman's crossbreds "our van." 67 in the contest for the champion prize offered for the best beast, irrespective of breed or sex. This was a black heifer, of what we may call the orthodox cross of Aberdeen Angus and Shorthorn, and May, as she was named, had been bred by Mr. John Ross in the north of Scotland, like so many other winners this and every season. She created so favourable an impression at Norwich that she would, many people thought, be bad to beat for the Islington Championship, especially as she was not to be set the fatigue of a journey to Birmingham and a sojourn of a week in the close atmosphere of Bingley Hall, to which several of the Norwich competitors were forthwith de- spatched. Sandwiched between Norwich and Birmingham, two or three of Buy Isoptin Sr Online the smaller Shows attracted plenty of local support, and that which is held under the generous