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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
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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."
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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