SPORT 



The following Kent cricketers have repre- 

 sented England in Test Matches at home : 

 Lord Harris, Messrs. F. Penn, E. F. S. Tyle- 

 cote, W. M. Bradley with Martin and Blythe. 

 Mr. J. R. Mason has been among the selected. 



The following Kent cricketers have toured 

 in Australia : — 



Lord Harris (1878), Hon. Ivo Bligh (1882), 

 Messrs. C. A. Absolom (1878), F. A. Mackinnon 

 (1878), F. Penn (1878), E. F. S.Tylecote(i882), 

 J. R. Mason (1897), C. J. Burnup (1902) and 

 K. L. Hutchings (1907), with G. Bennett 

 (1861), T. Sewell (1861), C. Blythe (1901 

 and 1907), and Fielder (1901 and 1907). 



The following Kent cricketers have played 

 for the Gentlemen and Players match at 

 Lord's since 1871 : Lord Harris, Hon. Ivo 

 Bligh, Messrs. C. J. Ottaway, W. Yardley, 

 F. Penn, E. F. S. Tylecote,'M. C. Kemp, 

 S. Christopherson, W. H. Patterson, F. Mar- 

 chant, W. C. Hedley, J. R. Mason, G. J. 

 Mordaunt, W. M. Bradley, C. J. Burnup, K. 

 L. Hutchings with G. G. Hearne, Martin 

 and Fielder, 



Since 1878 the following Kent cricketers 

 have appeared in the University match : For 

 Oxford, Messrs. B. D. Bannon, E. W. Dillon, 

 T. R. Hine Haycock, M. C. Kemp, C. H. B. 

 Marsham, G. J. Mordaunt, W. H. Patterson, 

 W. Rashleigh, A. J. Thornton and E. C. 

 Wright. For Cambridge : Hon. Ivo Bligh, 

 Hon. C. M. KnatchbuU-Hugessen, Messrs. 

 R. N. R. Blaker, C. J. Burnup, S. H. Day, 

 W. P. Harrison, R. S. Jones, F. M. Meyrick 

 Jones, F. Marchant, T. N. Perkins, E. B. 

 Shine and G. J. V. WeigaU. 



This brief review of the glorious record 

 of Kent cricket has not permitted reference 

 to the renowned Canterbury Festival, nor to 

 the charming series of weeks at Maidstone, 

 Tonbridge, Tunbridge Wells and elsewhere 

 which combine to make Kent cricket the 

 most delightful in contemporary sport. It 

 is likely that in the future the elevens may 

 surpass even the achievements of their 

 predecessors. Moreover, in the true 

 sense of the word, they ahvays play the 

 game. 



GOLF 



The county of Kent possesses two 

 characteristics which combine to make it a 

 natural centre for golf — the sandy nature of 

 a good part of its long coast-line, and the fine 

 turf that covers its chalk down. When to 

 these natural advantages is added that every 

 part of it is within easy distance of London 

 we are not surprised to find that golf courses 

 of every shade of excellence are to be found 

 within its borders. Kent is indeed the 

 original home of golf in England, since the 

 royal and ancient game has been played on 

 Blackheath continually since the year 1608, 

 when King James I introduced the Scottish 

 game to the inhabitants of his southern 

 kingdom. But the county possesses another 

 title to fame in its four magnificent seaside 

 courses of Sandwich (St. George's), Deal, 

 Littlestone and Sandwich (Prince's) ; and 

 there are those who maintain that neither in 

 Scotland, nor at Hoylake, nor at Westward Ho ! 

 can finer golf be obtained than on the famous 

 links of these clubs. 



The golf courses of Kent may be classified, 

 for convenience sake, in three groups — those 

 which are laid out on true seaside turf with 

 natural sand bunkers, and such hazards as 

 are only found on sandy shores ; those that 

 are within sound and sight of the sea, but 

 being on down or marsh-land are lacking in 



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the real seaside character ; and those which 

 are inland. 



Of the first group — the true seaside links — 

 there are only four, but those four are of 

 superlative excellence. The links of the 

 Royal St. George's Club at Sandwich are the 

 oldest of these. The club was founded in 

 1887, and it has always held among southern 

 golf clubs the proud position to which the 

 excellence of its links and its possession of a 

 championship course entitle it. The course 

 has been recently lengthened, and with its 

 fine tee shots, the admirable length of its 

 holes, the careful and accurate approach shots 

 that are required, and its splendid greens, 

 Sandwich will long maintain its notable 

 position among first-class golf courses. 



Littlestone Club is one year younger, having 

 been founded in 1888. The fine and lengthy 

 course of this club is on the western shore of 

 Dymchurch Bay, i mile from the ancient 

 cinque port of New Romney. It is 6,128 

 yards long, the longest (i8th) hole being 528 

 yards in length. It can hardly be called a 

 naturally difficult course, and the lies through- 

 out the green are on turf of such surpassing 

 excellence that a brassy is hardly anywhere 

 required — a play-club is all that is needed to 

 pick the ball up from a perfect lie. The first 

 seven holes, which are furthest from the sea^ 



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