GOLD STRIPE 



Gold Stripe. Distinctive badge 

 authorised in 1916 for use in the 

 British army during the Great War 

 to indicate at first men who had 

 been wounded by hostile action 

 while serving abroad. The badge, 

 commonly known as a wound 

 stripe, was a strip of Russian gold 

 lace, about ^ in. wide and 2 ins. long, 

 worn on the left sleeve in a vertical 

 position. See Stripe. 



In the French Army a badge of 

 similar significance was adopted 

 consisting of a small chevron in 

 gold lace worn point uppermost on 

 the right sleeve above the elbow. 



Gold-thread (Copt is tri folia). 

 Perennial evergreen herb of the 

 natural order Ranunculaceac. It is 

 a native of N. America and N. 

 Europe. The rootstocks are bright 

 yellow and bitter, the leaves divi- 

 ded into three oval leaflets, and 

 the white flowers have both sepals 



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GOLF 



Gold-thread, a perennial herb whose 

 roots are used medicinally and for dye 



and petals coloured. The roots are 

 used as a tonic, and for dyeing. 



Goletta OR LA GOULETTE. Port 

 of Tunisia, on the Bay of Tunis. 

 Formerly the port of Tunis, it is 

 now connected with the city by a 

 ship canal, 7 m. in length, through 

 lake El-Bahira. Since the cutting 

 of the canal, Goletta has lost its 

 former importance. Many of its 

 buildings are constructed of stone 

 from Carthage. It was taken by 

 Charles V in 1535. Pop. about 5,000. 





GOLF : HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED 



Horace G. Hutchinson, Amateur Golf Champion, 1886-87 



In addition to this article are also biographies of the leading golfers, 



Ball, Braid, Duncan, and others. There are also articles on all the 



other forms of sport, e.g. Cricket ; Football ; Hockey 



Game played upon a course 4 m. evensuggested that the Rules of Golf 



Committee should pronounce them 

 illegal instruments for the game. 

 These balls go farther, with less 



or more in length, laid out on links, 

 i.e. sandy -ground by the sea, or 



over land set with obstacles, and 



containing 18 holes of a statutory 



diameter of 4} ins., into each of than the old " gutties." Thus they 



which it is the player's object to have made the game more pleasant 



force of stroke impelling them, 



strike his ball successively, m 

 fewer strokes than his opponent. 

 Sometimes two, playing alternate 

 strokes with one ball, will play 

 against two others doing likewise. 

 In this form the match is called a 

 " foursome." When one plays 

 against one, the match is called a 

 " single." 



Golf, the national game of Scot- 

 land, was probably of native origin. 

 The court of James I of England 



for the less muscular, the old, and 

 the feminine. 



The Indiarubber Ball 

 Another change produced by the 

 modern. balls has been the general 

 lengthening of the courses, to cor- 

 respond to the general lengthening 

 of driving. Playing from the tee, 

 if the perfect drive with a rubber- 

 cored ball and with a solid gutty 

 respectively be measured against 

 each other, the difference is barely 



and VI of Scotland brought it to appreciable. But if the two balls be 



Blackheath where it was played hit each just a little off that dead 



for nearly three centuries before r j g ht centre of the club face, then 



that good example was followed t h e difference in length may run 



elsewhere in Great Britain. The i nto a scor e or. two of yards. The 



first English club of any note was indiarubber-cored will go far be- 



the Royal North Devon, at West- yO nd the other 



ward Ho .'inaugurated in 1864. The ' 



headquarters of the Scottish game 

 is in Scotland at St. Andrews, the 

 course of the Royal and Ancient 

 Golf Club. The rules (of the game) 

 are interpreted (and altered, if cir- 

 cumstances demand it) by the 

 Rules of Golf Committee, whose 

 ruling obtains almost universally. 



Simplification of the Game 

 Since about the year 1880 

 various steps have been taken in 

 the direction of simplifying the 



In this way, therefore, the modern 

 ball has diminished the premium 

 on perfect accuracy ; in other words 

 " has made the game easier." 



But if the two balls perfectly 

 and stoutly hit from the tee will 

 thus travel equally, the india- 

 rubber-cored ball is still likely to be 

 within an iron club's range of the 

 hole, while the guttapercha ball 

 is not ; because the indiarubber- 

 cored goes much farther off iron 



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game, the clubs in particular being than the g utt y will go. Moreover, 

 adapted better to their purpose, it is more easily lifted, it rises more 



Notably the number of iron clubs quickly off a hard, unkindly lie ; 



relatively to the wooden has been whereby again it has increased the 



easiness of the game. And the fact 

 of its farther travel off the iron clubs 



increased in part because the 

 modern indiarubber-filled balls re- 

 spond in a more lively way to 



is the principal reason why the 



the impact of iron than the solid courses which were just right for 



balls of guttapercha used to and the g utt Y balls were found to be 



the shape of both wooden and iron J us * wrong erring on the short 



' -' i side for the rubber-cores. 



clubs has been modified by making 

 them shorter in 

 I the head than 

 ; they were of old, 

 1 and thus massing 

 the weight behind 

 the point of im- 

 pact. 



The quays and shippii 

 of the canal to Tunis 



Long and Short Games 

 This coming of the rubber-w>red 

 balls and consequent lengthening 

 of all our courses is the most im- 

 portant happening in modern golf. 

 And if this were the whole of the 

 story it would seem as if the 

 The modern rubber-core had made the game 

 rubber-cored balls far easier all round. Easier, it 

 came into vogue certainly has made it, but that 

 -I about the year enhanced easiness is all in the long 

 | 1902, when Herd game. For the play of the short 

 I won the open game the gutty ball is easier than 

 I championship the other. The gutty can be stopped 

 I with them at more dead off the mashie in the 

 Hoylake. For a approach stroke, and can be played 

 while there was more boldly at the back of the hole 

 the mouth much opposition in the putt. But setting the advan- 

 to them; it was tages and disadvantages against 



