20 MAY 1949, Page 16

Towards the Sky The youthful Tom Hood thought that the

fir trees touched the sky. Some small boys of today have an alternative to conifers. Two of them, aged about five years, while playing golf on a common were addressed by a passing lady. "Do you play golf well?" she asked, and each in nun answered with conviction : " Yars." But the first boy couldn't let the brag pass. "I went nearer the sky than he did," he added, and what higher aspiration could you want ? Even the great like a high ball. Did not a famous golfer, in answer to a query, reply: "1 'its 'em 'igh because there aint no 'umps and 'ummocks in the hupper hair." One may find a deal of symbolism both in the motives of the pro, and the boast of the boy.