The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-12-26


Ing where your opponent Is The healthy
emulation dispels csrking care-an'
this cannot easily bc secured By doctors
drugs Ladies win find golf az suitable AZ
i dancing for cultivatiRg a fine balance %
figure and securing an attractive pose
| The eye and hard according welp' pro
duce wonderfully Scif-satisfyinE effect
and 10 be pleased With ones self is hall
| The battle in securing a cure for physica
derangcmcnt
/ ~ by chance this paper hs ppeus TO fall
| into The hands of one who has never yci
| taken 90 The magic art OF golf. lct him
| read 10 carefully, anu SO iuwardly digest
! it thar he VIII at once resolve 10 get "A
I club and cleek and bali and start 10 work.
! ere IL 5c too lstc. Lot him know that golf
! is no quack medicine but the genuine
srNCle that viii stretch out life more
clsStically than amy game. with an ines-
( Unable power OF throwing on all busy
! worry, with 80 ease which puts .ootbai
and tennis 20 shame. AMI with cheer
lng ana healing Influence which only re-
qufes continuous practice Go be realized
Golf TOO. Is a moral and social as well
az physical trainer. There Is 4 fraterniz-
lag element In he game which dO-s not
exist ii any other. Whatever be the 40.
cisl position or political lcarnlngS of the
players. they Stand on the golf-course as
"a John TamsOn's BARNS" The brother
hood is complete.
Gtlf was destined 10 play a gTaEt part
N the social life OF the country. IL is eS-
sentially a game for every class. All who
work with brains as well hands are re-.
inNigOrated by The game. MIR. ArshTr Bat
four strongly advocates golf above all
games, not only for its fine physical eX-
ercise, ever-deepening interest, and ALL
absorbing employment. hut for fits ethical
ana moral training IN losses az well as
gains II can teach great lessons:
BE strong 10 DO. and patient 10 bear:
For the heart that is true shall win"
Some foreign critics say or us that we
have not the true art of enjoying. Bu. Mr..
Balfour puts the answer Inv nutshell.
1T is impossible To add to the sphere OF
enjoyment more successfully than
through the instrumontality Of golf.wEieh
offers 10 every man. at a practically N
significant cost, every day, in all wealth
ers, st All time or the year. healthy. de-
liehtful. agreeable exercise 10 the winner
ana 90 the loser equally: delightful. suit
able 10 the best players in the world. and
Offering pleasure Go the worst player;
good for the beginner ana FOR the finished |
expert good for the young. the middls-
AGED. and FOR tho old. good FOR the itch |
,nd the poor"
Ever buffers can receive prsl1 moral /
rs ming from the game. II is a school FOR |
he development of the manly and practi- L
Al virtues, and field OF discipline fer the |
yafne OF life. which must tell powerfully /
IN the race as IL is spreading over the 1
world. The merest tyro IN the sport will 4
Ind that golf affords great scope for the l
'irtue OF self-conirol and the paramount \
ense or honor.
Nor is this self-control confined 10 The
mere suppression OF unparlis mentary ex-
ressions. Though golf 10 undoubtedly
ssful in restraining ones language, even
minister's have been known 10 come close |
. falling from grace after an awful
oozle. \ sympathetic caddie may then |
az: "Oh. sir. If it'll dse We ony guild. III |
wear for We: or ye can list swear laich |
ni"
But the golfer gets 10 see. ere long. that
{ he loses his temper he loses the hole lie |
nay be tempted TO jump on his hat. but |
le must he able to laugh ct this before
le can. dub himself a golfer. beginner !
ne day, after driving his hall into
unker, brought tho head Of the club !
mack down on the ground as II to break
!. hat he was called up by his csddis's
loraizine: Sir. the fsul's no al that l
nd. but at the tither end o the shaft"
The game is good for all public men as
trainer in maniness II appeals TO ones
onor. In many paris OF the course. when
al of sight of onss opponent. one could |
asily tip the ball out OF bad lie with |
he point of the toe. or squeeze n out OF |
heel mark in a bunker But ones sense |
{ honor is strongly appealed to. and he
'lll not he tempted. though BY doing so
q might be able 20 break his record.
Sir Matthew White Ridley has told us
hat golf is highly recommended TO ecce-
lasucs ana war correspondence. and |
and dirloma.ists. They should |
lwsyS he compelled go take prelmin-
ry course In golf IL they have not learn
4 IL az school
Golf has taken deep root wherever the
nergetic Anglo-Saxon race has flourish
u The vigorous characteristic OF that
tce compared with the Chnaman. who
onsiders perfect hsppiners as embodied ,
perfect Incidence. is embodied i'm tho
astime of golf. We reoan the fsr-seeinx
pigram OF the dark Hersclitus: "The nv
" arrow rests"