6 APRIL 1929, Page 18

PAYMENT OF GOLF - CADDIES [To the Editor of the

SPECTATOR.] Sut,-1 may put before you regarding " Payment of. Golf Caddies " in your issue of -the 16th ult. that ahnost the same views were put forward over forty years ago by Sir Walter Simpson in his inimitable book, The Art of -Golf.

Further, I desire to point out to you that the use of the word caddie "- as a verb, has, within the last few weeks, been condemned again by two such authorities as Mr. Bernard Darwin (English) and Sir Ludovic Grant (Scots).—I am, WE can- often get a wise hint from old Horace, as for instance just • now in an ode we read, " Pasce cadis tibi obstinatus" —Don't give them too much.—E. T. S. C.