Mr. Balfour made a pleasant speech on Saturday last at
the Sundridge Golf Club. After humorously commenting on the disastrous effects of a divided allegiance to golf and politics, Mr. Balfour said he was sure that the growth of these golf courses in the neighbourhood of London had done more than anything else in the last ten or fifteen years to make life pleasant and healthy to the busy workers of the Metropolis. " Golf courses constituted a source of healthy recreation to which there was no dark side, and which could do nothing but good." Without going the entire length of Mr. Balfour's unstinted eulogy, it may he readily admitted that golf has done a great deal to promote that "apotheosis of middle age" lately discussed in our columns. But when Mr. Balfour talks of busy workers he omits to mention that although the excellent institution of artisans' golf clubs is common in the provinces, it is practically unknown in the neighbourhood of London.
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