The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-15
ADAM PLAYED GOLF
John B. Mcdonald, of New
York, Has Proved 1t.
Huge NibIich, Apple Seeds, and Big Ivory Coli
Balls Discovered in Building the
Subway.

Especial to News and Observer
Pinehurst, n. c., March 14.-John b.
Mcdonald. of New York city, has won
considerable publicity as the New York
subway contractor, but Mr. Mcdonald s
name will not, it is said, go down to
posterity coupled with this vast and won
derful engineering feat, because of great
er achievements in the field of discovery.
This is the story something as it is told
In The Carolina billiard room:
In brief, Mr. Mcdonald has made it clear
TO the world that Adam played golf in
the Garden of Eden, with Eve for a
gallery" a monkey for a caddy. and the
serpent for the unbeliever; the chap who
always insists that you did not make a
800 yard hole in one, when you know you
did.
Mr.. Mcdonald has long thought that
Adam played golf but being a golf play
er and a fisherman, a man of the world
and business, he realized that the great,
skeptical world would not take his
opinion for il, and so he has sought for
many years. to find conclusive proof.
When Mr.. Mcdonald started in for the
subway contract it was not so much with
a desire to build the subway as to car
ny out his search for proof about Adams
golf record. for it is now generally con-
ceded lin New York; that a certain por-
ton of the subway passes through what
was in dusky, misty murky oblivion the
far famed Garden Of Eden.
When the work of excavating reached
the outskirts, the suburbs as it were, of
the former Eden, Mr.. Mcdonald called a
few trusty Dagos about him and unfolded
his plans, revealing only enough TO in
sure a thorough search, concealing sui
ficient so that if any valuable proofs
would not be spirited away and held for
a fabulous ransom.
At first the question was in vain and
little reward the efforts of the search
ers. A few spare ribs were found, a
serpents tooth or two, and several very
large seeds of an apple which must have
belonged to the Pippin family. Though
petrified these seeds were as large as
lima beans, indicating that in life they
must have been about the size of goose
egg. This latter discovery was of course,
interesting because it demonstrated how
great was Ewes temptation; but the world
has already judged Eve and Mr.. McDon-
aid thought it would be difficult to get
the matter through on exceptions and to
the Court of Appeals. at this late date.
What Mr.. Mcdonald wanted was proof
that Adam played golf, and so the his
toric spare ribs. the shining serpent s
teeth and the significant apple seeds, Were
cast ruthlessly aside and the search re-
newed with additional vigor. Not long
after workmen brought in the shank on
what was undoubtedly used in the Gar
den as a Niblick At first the huge piece
of steel was taken for an agricultural i'm
plement, but later, when it was remem-
bered that Adam was of heroic figure,
and that the bunkers on the Eden course
were natural hazards" the size and
shape of the club was readily accounted
= for.
Later a huge bit of iron, fashioned after
the manner of a billiard cue, was found
which has since been clearly shown to
have been a putter Several ivory balls
about the size of citrons were next dis
covered and here the matter rested for
some weeks. but on the outskirts of the
Garden, came the final proof. In the
ruins of what was undoubtedly Club
House, the character being shown by
numerous empty syphon bottles and
similar appurtenances, a statuette OF
bronze was unearthed Centuries upon
centuries had made little change in this
priceless relic and when cleaned Mr.. Nc
Donald realized that he had found the
necessary proof to establish the fact that
Adam played golf, beyond question.
The features of the face of the figure
are clearly Adams. but most conclusive
is the fact that the raiment is the raj
ment of Adam, and Eureka, the figure
holds aloft, in the position now known
as the top of the swing a driver. fash
toned much as drivers are fashioned to-
day.
Naturally, Mr.. McDonald's first thought
was to place the valuable trophy in the
National Museum, but on second thought
he felt that it should be offered as
trophy for a match upon the most famous
links of the country, and he accordingly
brought the prize to Pinehurst, ant
placed it upon exhibition here where n
is guest in company with a large party
of business men, prominent in New
York.
The famous statuette has now become
INC piopei19 vi the winner OF the INVITA-
tion golf tournament which was played
recently: Andrew Shiland, of New Yorl
city, who made score of eighty EIGHT
Other participants were: George c. Nc.
MAR, John Pierce d. W. Cooke, Jane.
McCutcheon, Frank Presbrey. George c
Clausen, New York city; A. o. Whit
man, Port Chester, n. Y. and j. Henri!
Hcntz- Jr., Philadelphia.
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