Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1900-03-14
Wednesday, March Il, 1900.


ty on all physically beneficial and NOR
ally harmless games and sports. Golf
is game that is in some respects like
shinney. 1t is not necessary to ex-
plain what shinney is; but this CON-
parison would lack great deal of ex-
planning golf. Golf requires more
extensive playground than any games
played in these parts but the require
nents of the playground are not 80
exacling as in other games. The
ground is divided into series of
links-from 9 to discovering an ag-
gregate distance of from 2 to 10 miles,
according to the taste of majority of
the cranks. Parts of the public roads,
vacant lots and bypaths may be press
ed into service, and to secure suitable
links without trespassing is not diff.
cult. But to the plan of the game.
Say there is nine link course Of two
or three miles. 1t might be arranged
out one of the roads leading from
town, across to another and back again
to the starting point. Along the route
there are to be nine small holes or
pockets, each large enough to receive
gutta percha ball the size of large
marble. These holes are at irregular
distances say 500 yards, 700 yards,
32o yards, 615 yards, etc, apart. 1t
is not necessary that the ground be
level; the more obtusions the better
the course. With balls such as has
been described, and sticks suitable for
hitting the ball along the ground, the
players outfit is complete. AS many
players as desire may play along the
same course at the same time without
getting in the way of each other. The
game of each is independent of the
others until the end, when the score
shows how each has acquitted himself.
The object of the players is to drive
their balls around the course, stopping
in each hole and completing all the
links with the fewest number of
strokes of their sticks. 1t is not ad-
missible to touch the ball with the
hands, after it has once been started,
nor can it be showed along the ground.
1t must be driven by well directed
blows over all distractions. Up north
there are players who can put ball
over such course as is indicated above
with an average of four licks between
each two holes. For beginner it
would require an average Of from 10
to 20 licks. But from the noise it is
making, golf is evidently agreat game.
1t furnishes exercise and recreation to
both sexes. The craze has not yet
ceased to spread, and there is no rea.
son why it should not also be intro
duced here.
If there is any one thing of which
the town of Yorkville stands in great
er need than another, that one thing
is thorough regeneration of it's muni'
cipal life. At least there should be a
good shaking up along certain lines,
and especially in the line of govern
ment and taxation. Perfect admins.
trative material is not one of the most
abundant resources of small towns.
Good administrative ability is scarce in
Yorkville. 1t has always been scarce.
There have been fairly good town gov
ernments and miserably bad ones but
none that have reached high ideas.
The town has been under King Stork,
and also under King Log. King Log
now holds the reins. The present ad-
ministration has not been bad, or al
together good. 1t has been economi-
cal and discharged numerous obliga-
tions that had been incurred without
anything to show for them. For this
it is to be commended. 1t has done
little in the way of progress or enter
prise that it was not forced to do.
The most notable event of its career
was the installment of the electric
plant upon terms so reasonable and
economical but it deserves no great
credit for that. The proposition came
from the other side-was.st under
Its nose, and it can only claim credit
for not having declined such an advan-
tageous offer. These observations are
not in q spirit of derogatory criticism ;
but merely a statement of facts.
While the council has done nothing
more than any set of ordinary men of
common honesty may have done, it
has certainly been under no moral OBJ
legation to give such time and thought
as would have been necessary to do
more. But too close personal criticism
aside. The municipal life is not pro-
gressive enough. There is not enough
ambition in the town council-not
enough pride in the progress of the
town. This is because of apathy on
the part of the people more than any
thing else. If the people were full of
vigor, enterprise and town pride, the
council would no doubt properly re-