Evening star., 1901-11-16
The Game as a Medicine and Trainer
for All Glasses.
A PERFECT and PLEASANT CURE
1t Brings Enjoyment With Health
and Develops Manliness.
"THE FLYING ARROW VESTS"

him: my good fellow, you just have a
game of golf. 1 know you have not played
for fifteen years. Now, at 1t again. 1 was
rather 'seedy for some time lately. had
been out at a few dinner parties where
there was more than cold water, and less
than restraint. and took all sorts of physic
to be found in an ordinary mortafs phar-
macopoeia. But there was no good done.
imagined everything inside was wrong
liver, lungs, heart. brain and all sorts Of
places-but I realized it was especially my
stomach. But there was no cure from
drugs, no cure from pills. Golf says I,
is my last card; If that does not have the
required effect, actum est de me. Like
Caesar of old, I came, / saw, conquered
I went to ST. Andrews. 1 had my two
rounds for three successive days, and
could then eat anything. I became new
man-physically certainly-and mentally
my mind was clearer for work.
'BleSs my soul!' l exclaimed, after lis
tening to this rather fatiguing speech, for
my friend got quite excited in his eloquent
yours, though have not had the pleas ire
of being at any dinner party for a dozen
years. I think 1 shall act on your advice,
and take day at golf
"The Perfect Cure"
I did so. 1 remember 1t was raw, cold
morning and it required all the stimulus of
an expected cure to urge me on the beauti-
full links Of Blairgowrie, in Strathmore,
through a searching rotton rime. Yet what
will not a man do for his health? I had
not been well for some time; bad cold was
hanging with spectral thrall over me day
and night; and I rushed to "the perfect
cure.
Doctors differ about many prescriptions,
but golf has secret power which is more
,I,fl ~, aofso no. hny .nf n
or allopathic medicines. And as 1 ap-
preached the links / read in imagination
over the entrance gate: "All ills abandon.
ye who enter here" There was something
else said over certain place by Dante,
and over a similarly named bunker by Mr..
p. P. Alexander at ST. Andrews; but that
expression certainly did not then occur to
me. 1t is only in the beautiful contrast of
my heaven of health now to my hell of
dyspepsia or something else before, that
the words of these two poets stand out in
relief (even as relief in my mind
The young minister Of the parish had
taken to golf year before that notable
day. He gave me driver. a cleek and an
tron-enough for me on my new golf honey
moon. l had been for fifteen years a grass
widow % at the game. We were to have a
single. The day frightened up. Nature
gave us her blessing. Hole after hole we
played-of course by holes not by strokes
AS to who won. nobody will care. One
thing 1 knew, that 1 had an appetite-if
l.
We walked to the manse, and hungry as
hawks We there with unwonted vigor and
stomach capacity, partook of an excellent
dinner. felt another man.
My friend is an authority on the medI-
cine Of golf. The other day he wrote a
poem-a satire on the erratic movements
of seven golf balls. struck off from the
Blairgowrie teeing grounds. OF six of them
can say nothing, but of one l must point
out the medicinal effects. He drew it from
the nose Of his club into Loeb Bog. famous
in winter for it's bonspies at curling The
plunge of the ball aroused the attention of
a slumbering pike that had taken some APP
parently incurable disease. Mistaking it
for horse medicine BALI he swallowed
the gutta, which so irritated the animal S
stomach that he didn't slumber again for
some time, thus effecting a perpetual cure
In his way.
After ones two rounds he sleeps WELL
barring other nagging, and the next morn
ing a comfortable feeling of exhiIaration
rushes wine-like through ones veins. 1t
seems as II fresh lease of life had been
given.
Enjoyment With Health.
The game Of golf is a splendid health re-
viver, and the exercise is not excessive
There is just enough Of interest in it to
wean one-however jaded-to walk with a
brighter spirit the elastic turf, and up and
down braes to force the lungs to breathe
a little faster, though by no means to
after tee-swipe seems SO silly to one
of the uninitiated; yet the golfer is all
alive to reach it in order to see how it
lies for his second-the important shot of
the hole. Unconsciously he is drawn-in
spite of care and semi-weakness-to make
up to it, The fine oZoned air. especially
on the seacoast or highland links, clears
the lungs by the forced breathings. The
exercise is gentle for all ages and both
sexes. The swing, full and energetic, de-
velops the chest muscles and makes every
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mastery shot The agile player is like an
eel, only more firmly pointed and pressed.
to put into the shot all he can"
There is enough in the game to keep up
the closest attention You must not dream
No sooner is ball struck than you are
planning the next shot and watching
where your opponent is. The healthy en-
ulation dispels carking care-and that can
not easily be secured by doctors drugs.
Ladies will find golf as suitable as dancing
for cultivating fine balance of figure and
securing an attractive pose. THE eye and
hand according well" produce a wonder
fully self-satisfying effect: and to be pleas
ed with ones self is half the battle in Sc
curing cure for physical arrangement
Begin Now.
If by chance this paper happens to fall
into the hands of one who has never vet
taken to the magic art of golf, let him read
1t carefully, and SO inwardly digest 1t that
he will at once resolve to get club and
clGeh anu Dali anu start TO Work ere 1t be
too late. Let him know that golf is no
Quack medicine, but the genuine article that
will stretch out life more elastically than
any game, with an inestimable power of
throwing off all business worry, with an
ease which puts foot ball and tennis to
shame, and with a cheering and healing
influence which only requires continuous
practice to be realized.
Golf, too, is moral and social as well as
physical trainer. There is a fraternizing
element in the game which does not exist
In any other. Whatever be the social DO
sition or political leanings Of the players
they stand on the golf course as "a John
Tamson's bairns." The brotherhood Is COM
plete.
Golf was destined to play a great part In
the social life Of the country. 1t is essen
TALLY game for every class. All who
work with brains as well as hands are re-
invigorated by the game Mr. Arthur Bal
four strongly advocates golf above all
games, not only for its fine physical exer-
else, ever-deepening interest and all-absorb-
ing enjoyment. but for Its ethical and moral
training. In losses as well as gains 1t can
teach great lessons
Be strong to do and patient to bear:
For the heart that is true shall win"
Some foreign critics say of us that we
nave not the true RI of cpiovfpp Erf