CHINA’S OIL FIELDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XLV, Issue 4011, 18 August 1915, Page 6

CHINA’S OIL FIELDS.

ARRANGEMENT WH STANDARD COY. DECLINED.

cit-Hi Pi-css China has declined to arrange a permanent contract with the Stain-.ud Oil Company for the exploitation o the northern oil districts. Ihe preliminary twevle months agreement, whereunder the area was piospecud, lias expired-

THE ALLUREMENT* OSGOLF. TH EALLVREVENT OK GOLF

Golf will gotcha if you don t wateh out. Spoof the game if you wish ; call it senseless, childish, and a lot- oi other thino-s along the same line. But don t. tempi Fate hv clutching a club am latino even one swipe at the Pan. n you do, you are lost lor ever to the anti-golfing clan. Golf is a game whose devotees a. o made up largely of who used to tumk that of all the silly games, golf was the silliest. They jeered at tho goiters they ridiculed the game. And then one day they got a club m their palms, took a swing at. the ball -•*”< now they are golfing friends. IN A CLASS BY ITSELF. Golf is unlike any other athletic game. The golfing fever attacks you rlie very second that you take your first .swing. Other games, 1 'bo tennis, must ho pla-yecl often betore it becoines something of i\ mania. But gull is different. «• . Why does golf ensnare with the rapidity and the tenacity of a ding. 'That’s a question that no man ever has been aide to answer satisfactorily. But it does. When von take vour first siring at the golf ball, one of the three things happens. You miss the ball altogether you hit it a mile or so after meeting it squarely, or you “top” it and send it drildling for'a distance of only a few feet. In any case the fever attacks and you are a victim. GETSYOU EITHER WAY. If you should happen to get in a mighty drive, you become all puffed np over your skill. “Luck?” Not a bit. That drive you made just shows that you knew what you were taming about alien you said that it was a silly childish game. What’s that? 'I he other fellows insist it was luck and and that you can’t duplicate that shot on your next try? Well, you'll show ‘cm*. And you take another snipe. And from that time an, golf ensnares you.

Probably, like thousands of others, you miss the ball completely on the first- swing, and plough up a yard of earth behind or alongside the ball. That foozle is tho means of enslaving you, because you argue with yourself that yon miss was it bit of bad luck—and nothing else. Tho game seems so simple in your mind, that you can’t figure out that it needs skill to meet the ball squarely and fully. So yon lay it to bad luck or to accident. IS MERELY AN INCENTIVE. Missing the first swing puts you on your mettle. Y’ou take another swing to convince everybody, including yourself, that it’s an easy matter to hit that ball andWlrive it over the hills and far away. Chances are that you’ll either miss the second swing, or that you’ll “top” your hall, (that second failure exasperates you more. You keep on trying, and'by the time that you’ve met the ball the ivay it should be met the golf fever will bo raging in your veins.-—-You’re a victim. Golf looks like a simple game. To the outsider it seems like the simplest of tricks to soak that little ball of rubber and hammer it- far off into space. But all things aren’t as they seem to be. And golf is one of those. Perhaps you’ll be one of the hundred men ivlio can get off a beautiiul drive on the first attempt- from the tee. That will cause you to toll the golfers whom you have spoofed that it’s just as simple a game as you always insisted it was. Then you’ll be invited to play just one complete bole. You’ll try an approach shot—and you’ll find things different. Eventually you will reach the green. Your ball lies G to 10 feet- from the little hole. It looks like a simple matter to roll your ball into it. You’ll try—and how different you’ll find it.