ACA KHAN’S ADVICE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 309, 30 December 1914, Page 4

ACA KHAN’S ADVICE.

Golfers will he interested to learn that the Aga Khan, the great leader of the Moslems, who did so much* to check the Sultan’s call for a Holy War, is a devotee of the Royal and Ancient Game, says the Christchurch Press. Writing for the benefit of the more sedate and conservative of the Indians, who believed that exercise was good, but objected to cricket aiffl football as being “undignified, over-violent and dangerous,” he recommended golf to their favorable consideration. Besides being most beneficial, he said : “It is dignified enough for a bishop or a high priest, and it is most enjoyable.” While we would not for one moment question this dictum, we have ' to confess that so far we have never seen a bishop “hunkered” nr a high priest miss his drive. Still, it would

bo unfair to assume without direct evidence to the contrary, that either the dignity of the ecclesiastics or their habitual restraint of language would he unequal to the strain.