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Thames Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17973, 23 August 1930, Page 8

\ Robert "Wannan, who was playing a foursome with three others from Newport on Leuchar's golf course, drove a golf ball on to a railway line. He retrieved the ball and decided to undergo the usual penalty. He threw it on to the course and was following on, engrossed in his game, when a railway train struck him down and decapitated him. An American golfing journal has been conducting a symposium on the laws of golf, and has arrived at the conclusion that less .than 5 per cent, of players, including the cracks, have a decent grip of the tangled legislation. This is hardly to be wondered at. considering that the people -who frame those laws are just as ignorant as the majority of players. There are something like a dozen different varieties of the game played, each, of them with its own peculiar exceptions and . reservations. Such bodies a s the Rules Committee of St. Andrews work overtime trying to solve the knottv problems submitted to them, and every decision they arrive at conjures up a worse hurdle than the last one.