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Updated: June 20, 2025
I am afraid we shall never meet again " "But we are partners in the mixed foursomes tomorrow." "Oh, yes, so we are!" said Eunice. "Well, mind you play up. I want to win a cup more than anything on earth." "Ah!" said Ramsden, "if only I could win what I want to win more than anything else on earth! You, I mean," he added, to make his meaning clear.
"Plenty of that," said Thorogood. "Deck-hockey and medicine-ball you mark out a tennis-court on the quarter deck, you know, and heave a 9-lb. ball over a 5 ft. net foursomes. Fine exercise." He spoke with the grave enthusiasm of the athlete, to whom the attainment of bodily fitness is very near to godliness indeed.
A "foursomes" is when two players play against another two, each side having a ball and the partners playing alternately. Often a skilled player will match himself against a number of inferiors; this is called a three or four ball match. Of course every boy who can wield a stick has played at this fine, simple old game. One does not need many tools for this sport.
"I Demand part of my payment this afternoon," I said to Miss Harding as we neared the Oak Cliff club house. "You are impatient, Jacques Henri," she laughed. "Is it possible my credit is not good?" "Not in this instance," I returned. "I am demanding that you refuse all invitations to play in foursomes, and that after luncheon you and I make the round of Oak Cliff."
At the same time I do not think that even this kind of foursome is the best thing in the world for the improvement of a man's game, and I advise the young player to resist the temptation to take part in too many foursomes, to the neglect of ordinary match play in singles.
The Foursomes, in common with most of the hostel, were fond of Mrs. Best, so they turned over obediently, and composed themselves to slumber. They were really tired by this time, and dropped off into the land of Nod before the clock on the stairs had chimed another quarter. How long she slept, Ingred did not know. She woke suddenly, and laughed at the absurdity of the idea.
For one thing it never occurred to her that so poor-spirited a man could be of any use at the game, and for another Ramsden was always busy tooling round with little Wilberforce. Yet it was with Ramsden that she was paired in the first competition for which she entered, the annual mixed foursomes.
The four-ball foursome Its inferiority to the old-fashioned game The case of the long-handicap man Confusion on the greens The man who drives last The old-fashioned two-ball foursome Against too many foursomes Partners and each other Fitting in their different games The man to oblige The policy of the long-handicap partner How he drove and missed in the good old days On laying your partner a stymie A preliminary consideration of the round Handicapping in foursomes A too delicate reckoning of strokes given and received A good foursome and the excitement thereof A caddie killed and a hole lost A compliment to a golfer.
The sense of responsibility is frequently a little too much for their nerves, and you often see a man, a most dogged and persistent player in an ordinary match, who is a consistent failure in foursomes, and who in this style of game ought to be rated at six strokes higher handicap than his allowance for ordinary purposes.
I met them at breakfast and at lunch and at the half-past six o'clock high tea that formed the third chief meal of the day. I heard them rattling off the compositions of Chaminade and Moskowski, with great decision and effect, and hovered on the edge of tennis foursomes where it was manifest to the dullest intelligence that my presence was unnecessary.
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