Thomas Kincaid's diary: extract 4
An extract from the diary of golf enthusiast and Edinburgh medical student Thomas Kincaid.
Transcription
'whether it be better that the in equality of gamsters be remedied in the game or in the stakes.
'pin easily passe through it especially at the soft end. I came in with Hen[ry] And John Pringle we mett with John Corss and went in to a change house called Willsons we stayed till 11 of the clock Hen[ry] payd 49 shill[ings] I payd 13 shill[ings] John Corss payd 7 shill[ings].
- Freed. I rose at 7. I thought upon this way of playing at Golve. I ex. till 9. I wrott this till 8 of the clock at night. I thought upon the question whither it is better in giveing advantadge in gameing to make the game equall, and the stakes unequall, or to make the stakes equall and give some advantadge in the game, as at the glove whither it is better to give a man two holes of three; laying equall stakes, or to lay three stakes to his on[e] and play equall for so much every hole. For answer we most distinguish between the giving a man so great advantadge as to putt him within on[e] hazard of the game, and the putting him only within two or three hazards of the game. For the worst of gamesters may readily winne on[e] hazard but the[y] will hardly win two or three in on[e] game. For solution then of the question we say, that if the game depend upon on[e] hazard it is all on whither ye make the inequality in the stakes or in the game. But if the game consist of more hazards then on[e], it is by farre securer for the giver of the advantadge to make the inequality rather in the stakes then in the game. For when the game is equall and depends on many hazards it is almost all ...'
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