The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-03-29


bined the piety of Pope Leo. an appreciation
of the beautiful such as Ruskin possessed
and the physical pulchritude of Adon;s. Il
might be said that such an individual would
be quite nice fellow. II seems impossible
TO find such men, Piety. according to one.
lights. is fine thing. Pious men are few
A true appreciation of the beautiful in for3
and fauna is something to be much ad.
inired. In this rough and somewhat new
country the beautiful in art outdoors is moi
50 generally cultivated as it is in European
countries. Americans have had small tim,
forSfiower gardens and magnificent country
residences They are acquiring that taste
rapidly.
II is very pleasant to note a rapid growth
in the appreciation OF the beautiful abou,
st. Louis. Take the various country clubs
about town. structures which resemble the
great country mansions of England II is
pleasant TO see them grow in beauty from
year to year. Americans have not been as
careful about offending the eye as Euro,
pcans are. The grounds of country clubs
have often been rough lily kept and really
offensive TO the eye.
Things are being changed. Go look at
the Country Club or the Glen Echo Club.
and note how much attention is paid to APP
pearances. Glen Echo. even in two years,
resembles a beautiful English country place.
1t has the green, clean grass. the ponds. the
trees and the flowers and the white roads.
Everything is scrupulously neat and proper.
The clubhouse is an architectural picture.
IT is terraced in European style. II has;
flowers all over it. inside and out. The
roads and walks are white snow and kept
as neat as possible. The edges of the roads
are properly maintained and the roads them
, selves are smooth as asphalt Fountains
play in the ponds and fish flourish. Birds
nest in the trees about 1t is an up-to-date
country place
Note the change in the Country Club The
Golf caddies no longer make barren eye
sore of the space around the stables and
fiist tee.
Handsome fences take the place of old,
tumble-down rails. Grass is carefully cul-
ttvated all around. Flowers grow in album
dance Roads are kept trig as garden paths
Grass is close-cut and well kept. There is
2 Glen Echo. Still the arid and sour pastures
around Clayton grow and increase in beauty
every day. They mark a huge advance In
one thing Americans have been lacking
keen taste in rural adornments.
With Mr.. Orthwein's grand old saddle
horse Rex Mcdonald out of commission,
and with Mr.. Parrishs star, Forest King,
Ing Jack o. Diamonds is rated the best
saddle horse of the fve-gaited show tpye
in America. This chestnut was at the st.
Louis show: and displayed fine form. spirit.
TO report. Jack O. Diamonds is soon to
come to Missouri. Tom Bass has purchased
who wishes his name withheld for the pres,
emit. He is fine eating high spirited
gelding. quite good enough to beat such
He viii be a decided accusation to Mis-
souri, saddle-horse circles.
Red Bud, that excellent. If somewhat
long -backed gelding, owned by Mr.. Dunn of
st. Louis is to be extensively shown next
even Il he has Ha.5 Joint or tWo more in his
spine than he should have. He has as fine
q set of legs as any horse in America to-
beat him. As a combination rider and driver
he ,excels, and it Is doubtful II he has his
equal in this class. - = ea''.s'''1.,7
Speaking of horses, dealers complain that
the market is bad, save for horses of the
are hard. indeed to find. A leading dealer
told me the other day that not one in TWEEN
~ OF the so-calied hrst-class horses he had
been asked to look at were good enough to
buy. Il have demand for cracks" said
this dealer. land cannot Nil it. For a de-
cent ayerage horse with a fault in him
something most horses have-there is no
There are many good horses produced every
real cracks to one-twentieth of the rate We
SHOULD. We simply cannot make horses to
order. Hence. cracks are hard to get"
Now that the golf season approaches, the |
strictly honest golfer is lifting up his voice |
TO protest against the practice of taking |
mccall score puts for granted, which has |
from time immemorial prevailed in local |
golf: st. Louis golfers have been especially |
balls when an Opponent holes out in in three 1
and calling their pickedup ball four, even |
OF the unmade putt was twenty feet. This |
Is bad and unfair practice. Every. ball |
should be holed out, even in match play, il |
the PLAYER wishes 70 turn IN a medal score. |
II, IL further to be trusted that the old |
TICK OF tapping club head back OF a ball !
the the 4. long grass of the course win not be
weeds and tall wiry grass that might he |
growing. around ball. These are small |
things: but they mean good deal The
at least II has been the crack players not l
the poorer ones, that have been guilty of |
these practices.
The baseball season is not far away.
Ih9re Will be plenty of good amateur base
spectacles. worth seeing for their exempl,-
ncation OF the greatest of all spectacular
sports. The local school teams will all
piay excellent baseball. Christian Brothers
College, Smith Academy, High School and
81. Louis University viii al furnish demon
strations of skilled playing that will satisfy
those who like handsome exhibition of the
great American game. =
many nne games are playei on the ST.
Louis A A. grounds in Forest Park. 1t is
worth any mans while to go out there on
vein family play ball at the A. A. L.
grounds. Professional contests, 10 be sure
oner the acme of excellence in the wonder
Iui spectacular game, but it is the writer's
experience that there is a deal more life and
enthusiasm in the college games. II the
colleges only could get STEADY batteries. a
pitcher who has control and believes in
sending them over the plate, and making
work easy for his catcher, their games
would be almost quite as clean and well
the amateur pitcher loves to fan, bar
ters He would rather lose game and
strike out ten men than win one and strike
out but FIVE Using curves he is wild and
Keeps bis catcher on the jump reaching aft
er wild pitches. This spoils the average
amateur game for the spectators. The
iIeiders are generally all right. the bat
ing good and the base running daring but
the pitching very wild. If college pitchers
would but Keep the ball over the plate their
the spectacular point of view. The young
pitcher forgets that he has eight men be-
hind him, and tries to strike the batter out /
He will curve the ball. Then trouble en-
sues s2e |
Orercrowded Eastern sportsmen are ship
ping hunters to. Kansas City Hunters
must not be taken in the American, but
the English sense, which means horses rid ,
len TO fox hunts. Kansas City is far from
being as big town as st. Louis. but il IS
more advanced in some ways. There should
be hunt club in st. Louis even II the
hounds did follow the anise seed bag which
The comic papers jest SO about. 1t may be
true that Americans cannot expect the
'sme freedom OF territory that Englishmen
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