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Rh victims and interferes with the score of others. First, on the question of luck. We are all of us apt to take a one-sided view of luck. We remember when it is against us, and forget when it is in our favour. No doubt there are times when it is extremely hard luck to be stimied, but to no one individual is there a monopoly of bad luck. Everybody has his turn of fortune's favours as well as of her blows. The game has not been invented, in which a ball is involved, where luck is not an important feature. The luck of the stimie may be regarded as part of the general element of fortune which is an absolute necessity in every game of ball. Next, as to the question of score. The man who is always trying to make a score has no grievance whatever in medal play, for in such games the stimie has been abolished. In an ordinary game by holes he need not play stimies if he can get his opponent to agree before the match starts, and we are therefore driven to the conclusion that he argues for the abolition of the stimie because in match play where he cannot get his opponent to agree to its abolition he has to play with the stimie to the prejudice of his score. The St. Andrews Committee, if