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Sober pinch-pennies derive great pleasure from betting-they are indeed the most daring fellows alive, for they hazard their careful stake on the expected and the expected rarely occurs. Your extravagant defrauds himself of excitement. He favors unlikelihoods, only to see them crop up at every turn. This paradox of the wise man and his penny is sustained by the fact that it frequently proves untrue. For instance, conservative students of tennis fully expected William T. Tilden to win the National Tennis Championship which was decided last week at Forest Hills. Perceiving a balance draw, with Tilden and Williams...
...Hazards and Casual Water. Rule XXV: When a ball lies in, or touches a hazard, nothing shall be done which can in any way improve its lie; the club shall not touch the ground...
...married. He and his wife are spending the summer at Swampscott. The voracious photographers of the press petitioned Mrs. Sanders to let them take her picture. She consented-in golf togs-posed on the golf course of the New Ocean House. A golf ball was dropped in a hazard. She took a firm stance, faced the camera and was snapped-with her club grounded on the sand behind the ball...
...club grounded in a hazard behind a ball...
...signs in Peking were that the Chinese Government would do its best- and what that is remains to be seen-to restore quiet. How far the nationalistic students will support the central Government is another speculation which appears equally impossible to hazard. Said The New York Times: "When do Chinese students study...