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Similarly in match-play competitions, do not get into the way of thinking that your chance is hopeless just because your opponent becomes two or three up on you, or even more than that, early in the game; and, above all, do not alter your style of play in consequence.
There was no profit in it, as a department, but it was good advertising, and helped the cause. In the meantime Henry, who at this season of the year would ordinarily have gone to Lake Placid for the winter sports or to Pinehurst for golf, was watching the rise and fall of the box-office receipts as eagerly as he would have watched the give and take of match-play in tournament finals.
"Logically," I said, "he ought to be certain to win." "Yes; but, you see, you were not playing last year, Mr. Garnet." "Oh, the professor can make rings round me," I said. "What did you go round in to-day?" "We were playing match-play, and only did the first dozen holes; but my average round is somewhere in the late eighties." "The best father has ever done is ninety, and that was only once.
The night before the match-play part of the business commenced, I was walking down one of the streets of Portrush when I encountered Andrew himself, and in his own blunt but good-humoured way he remarked, "Young laddie, d'ye think y're gaun to tak the money awa' with ye? Ye've no chance, ye ken." I said nothing in reply, because I felt that he spoke the truth.
No wonder they're buying cars quicker than the makers can supply them. No wonder you see their wives going about in mink coats and pearl necklaces. Oh, dash it! I'll drop another!" "In that case," Alexander pointed out, "you will, of course, under the rules governing match-play, lose the hole." "All right, then. I'll give up the hole."
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