Fro THE EDITOR Or THS "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—Surely my statement as
to the non-inclusion of trades- men in English golf clubs is not met by your remark that " many " Buell clubs allow workmen to play on their grounds (see Spectator, June 4th, p. 835). I know one such club (Bran- caster) and have heard of another (Nottingham). But the general fact is that golf in England is, by the social necessities of the case, mainly a game of the richer and professional classes. That is due to the large cost of maintaining the club- houses and links (the former do not exist in Scotland on the English scale and style), and to our greater social exclusive- ness. Nor can I think that the description of motoring which you quote is "unfair." The pleasure of driving or riding is not speed; it is the motion and tending of a beautiful and interesting animal, and with it may be combined fairly close observation of a countryside. The pleasure in motoring is speed ; and you cannot observe the country with any care, and do not want to observe it. The main object is the road as it disappears beneath your car. There is little pleasure in driving a motor in the country at less than twenty miles an hour ; there is more pleasure still in driving it forty. Not infrequently this is accompanied by recklessness of the lives of small creatures in the road, or of the fears of the horses and cattle that you meet, or (in rarer cases) of the safety of the travellers on the car. Motoring has its fascinations ; but, compared with driving, it is a Philistine's pastime.—I am,
Sir, &c., H. W. MAssiNaRAm.
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