Morris tribune., 1902-10-18
THE GAME OF GAMES.
Golf, Says This Writer, Involves Art,
Science and Inspiration.

Golf, Says This writer, Involves ATT,
Science and Inspiration.
It is true that there is a point OF
view from which golf may be regarded
as an extremely simple game-the very
simplest of all the games with ball
and a club, says William G. Brown in
the June Atlantic. The players object
Is simple and single to the point of
simple mindedness and singularity, one
might say-tO put a small ball in q
small hole with the feWest possible
strokes But so are the objects of the
highest ambitions, the guiding stars of
careers the most perpleXed and devi-
GUS. 1t is true, likewise, that all the
countless strokes a golfer makes are
receivable into three kinds of stroke-
driving, approaching and putting. But
Mr.. Everard, in a lecture unsurpassed
for truth and brilliancy by any in all
the extremely clever literature Of golf,
has declared that to make those three
strokes Alright one must have ''art, sci
ence and Inspiration
From the moment the ball leaves the
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sliced or whether, struck in proper
fashion a trife below the medal line
and urged forward with an exquisite
free lashing out Of the wrists, it takes
fight as with wings and seeks it's true
course as with mind and purpose Of
its own until it drops into the cup with
a Naturalization that no louder clang
or paan ever surpassed in it's sugges-
ton of victory and consummaiOn,
there is no foreseeing what perplexity
or temptation to carelessness or over
confidence it will present.
Not twice off the tee ground and the
putting green will the possibilities and
probabilities Of the stroke be quite the
same. In the lie, the wind, the dis
lance to be traversed, the obstacles to
be carried, there are variations not to
be reckoned by any known mathemat-
les.
Then, as the match approaches its
dreadfully quiet climax of defeat or
victory, the responsibility may grow
positively appalling. The very DELHI"
GRAFTON which, impossible in most
games is so characteristic of this, so
far from lessening the strain on ones
nerves, undoubtedly heightens it. One
has time to estimate the emergency, to
realize the crisis.
Not the fercest rally at tennis. Dot
the longest and timeliest home run at
baseball, not the most heroic rush at
football. requires a more rigid cOncen-
tratiOn of thought and energy or a
more dauntless courage than the flick
of putter that sends the ball crawl
ing on it's last little journey across the
putting green when the put is for the
hole and the hole means the match.
There is not a quality of mind or body
Il will not except or qualify at all
no. not one, that life itself proves ex-
eellent which a circuit of the links will
bOt test.
The University of Oxford proposes to
celebrate in October next the tercen-
tenary of the opening Of the Bodleian
library, says the New York Evening
Post The commemoratiUn ceremonies
will take place on Oct. and 9, and a
very large and distinguished attend
Ance Of delegates from all parts of the
world is expected at Oxford for the &C.
ca sion. The Bodleian library was actu-
ally founded in 1898. but it was not
opened till 1902 by Sir Thomas Bodley,
who died in 1912. 1t contains over $780,
300 volumes.