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have committed, he has not moved his head. 

 That occasionally, even in such circumstances, his 

 stroke falls short of perfection may be accounted 

 for by the fact that he has pulled his arms in, 

 pushed his elbows out, shifted his feet, altered 

 his stance, lost his balance, or been guilty of 

 one or other of the thousand minor crimes with 



which the path of the 

 golfer is ever beset. 



The top-hat method, 

 however, possesses cer- 

 tain inevitable draw- 

 backs, some of which 

 are so patent as 

 scarcely to require 

 mention. I remember 

 once at Sandwich, 

 when I happened to 

 be wearing the sleigh- 

 a bell form of headgear, 

 and was strolling along 

 the fairway in a very 

 musical fashion, a parlourmaid came running 

 out of an adjacent villa, under the impression 

 that I was the local muffin-man, and, pressing 

 sixpence into my unwilling palm, besought me 

 to supply her with half a dozen of my choicest 

 crumpets for her mistress's afternoon tea. Not 

 happening on this particular afternoon to have 



