“MARATHON GOLF ; 1 
NEAR MAIDSTONE. 
1 HE i* 1 RST DRIVE WITH A 1IKASS1K LANDED OUR BALL IN A 
iv HO 1)0 DEN DKON - BUSH. ’ 
passenger. 
In playing off 
the railway the 
ball hit a post 
and came back, 
butwith a niblick 
we landed into the meadow on the north side, 
rassmg though some swampy ground, we 
followed the river till we reached Kelsham 
Farm, where we crossed at the 201st stroke, 
reaching Frittenden Road Bridge, and had 
to drop twice owing to the ball finding hedges. 
No. 213 brought us to Headcorn at 2.30. 
Here we stuck a stump into the ground to mark 
the last stroke and retired to the village inn 
for luncheon. On our return we found that 
our caddie had mysteriously disappeared. 
Stroke 214 was made at 3.30, and our progress 
was fairly rapid, varied by an occasional lost 
ball in a hedge or long grass. We passed 
endeavoured to keep along it with the 
deck, but soon found this impossible, as any- 
thing but a short putting stroke found the 
ditches on cither side. 
From one of these we pitched on to a heap 
of stones, and from them into a thick willow- 
bush. Hereabouts we found much trouble, 
but soon got going again and. beyond hitting 
two stiles and finding several ditches, met w ith 
no noteworthy adventures. We now readied 
a ^vore thickly-wooded country, and frequently 
hit trees, the ball sometimes cannoning off 
to a considerable distance. Fortunately the 
weather had been dry, and the fields, in which 
Blctchenden on our left, crossed 
a wdieat field, and then pitched 
into a narrow road near Avles- 
wade Farm, whence we took a 
line for the main Ten ter den road, 
which we reached at the 285th 
stroke, having just previously 
driven into a brickyard, the ball 
resting against a chicken * coop. 
Once in the road, which was 
running in the right direction, we 
Leaving Dun- 
bury Farm on 
the left, we still 
kept to the pas- 
ture land, the 
principal hazards 
being hedges and 
ditches. Hawk- 
enbury Bridge 
was reached soon 
after m i d day. 
and No. 158 was 
driven on to the 
railway at the 
spot where many 
years ago a dis- 
astrous accident 
happened to the 
boat -express in 
w h i c h Charles 
Dickens was a 
VoL xlvi. — 4. 
