A GREAT GOLFER.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 13000, 31 December 1907, Page 7

A GREAT GOLFER.

'i In those biocraphical days, it is not J 'surprising to learn that there has been i I published a "Life" of Old Tom Morris, . probably the greatest golfer tho world , i has known. Hβ started lifo as an apprentice to Allan Robertson, who was lor many years Scotland's champion golfer, and one of the greatest figures i ™ anc ' enfc pastime ha* produced, i "Old Tom" played golf for n«>rlv 80 years. Ho was custodian of the PVestwick links for fourteen years, and year alter year there he engaged in great .struggle* with Jlobertson, Willie Dunn, an..l Willie I'ark. Tho last-named was his greatest rival. Aα timn wont on, the rivalry between the champions beoame more acute, and Olympian tussles for JLIOU a side served only to rau<p the loser to determine tr> fight it out agiiiti ;is early as may -he. When Tom went hack to .St. Andrews in 18G3 to tako charge of the links, the .struggles between_ Park and himself became a. fight for oivic superiority In/tween Mussolhurgh and the little Fife town; and lo;-a! feeling reached a temperature novi'r chroiricled even in the rivalries lwtn-epii Liverpool and Manchester. In one of tho famous Morri.s versus Park fights it was urged that a magistrate should bo ae-ked to attend for the purpose of reading the .Riot Act if necessary.