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Timaru Herald, Volume XCIV, Issue 14452, 26 May 1911, Page 5

' M. W. Cunningham, Archdeaoon of 1 Ely, iuade some interesting roforoncen to tho origin of golf in djj nddreM to the Itoyal ilifitoneaJ fconiuty recently. fJe doubted whether golf could Ix» re* garded ns characteristic. of llio Scottish nation, Although golf w®s a wo!K known naino in Seothuid in tho early part of tho fifteenth oent-ury, Mr' An* <lro\v Lang had shown that it was not an exclusively Scottish game, hut that a primitive form of nad Ivmmi played fm tho sand dune* in French Flanders. Beyond this there remained th'.> only partially recognised fact that golf was greatly in vogue in Holland during tho seventeenth century. Br. Cunningham quoted a sentence from an old book, entitled, 4 'Tho Intorost of Holland, n in which the translator wrote that tho giuno of polities •wna lilt© tennis, boeau.se you did not always sot the hall fair, hut had to "play the ball ofl it lica." TCroro tumid bo no doubt that "tennis" shou-W lx> golf." Tho London "Sportsman" atatoa that T. Sullivan is willing to bank Arimt against Harry in a match for £r>oo a side,.. to bo rowed on the Thames, if Harry allow* Arnst £2OO for expenses. Arnst assorts thnt Sullivan wna not authorised to do anything in the matter, further, that ho waa not prepared to wn& in the bands of a friend who wnei on his way to England with plenary' powers. At present tho olmmpion ]uu\ one challenger to deal with, and «h<wid hn heaf- Pen roe ho would ?n n1! probability not go to .England Cor Rornn lit lie l ime. A nisi has not <ugnr«? articles, but it is nniieinnf-ed that h* will do so during the week.