The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1907-11-23

now. Women swing out like men and
put snap into their wrists and the
ball goes. The only difference be-
tween their driving and that of the
men is the actual muscle behind the
ball, and that is a handicap nature
has made.
The eastern women Outclass those
of the west, because athletics have a
firmer hold in the east. Eastern WON
en- are accustomed to riding, shooting,
sailing and tennis. They play games
from their earliest childhood, so that
their muscles are more thoroughly
trained, and they are accustomed to
competitions. Golf was merely. one
more game to be learned, and they
went about it in the systematic way
which comes alone from experience.
Golf is the first sport in which west
ern women have INDUCED to any ex-
tent, and consequently they have not
the sporting instinct fully developed
as yet. The young girls in the west
the ones who have learned the
game since golf became a universal
craze, and consequently have had the
benefit of the best instruction and ex-
ample-are the only ones who can
ever hope to compete upon an equal
basis with the best women players of
the east.
However, the sporting instinct is
growing apace in the west, and golf
is, if anything, more on the wane in
the east than west Of the Alleghenies.
Other sports occupy the eastern
mind, but in the west we have as
yet only developed a taste for golf.
New clubs are still being started, and
new players are still making futile
attempts to dislodge the ball from the
tee. This may apply more to the
men than to the women, but even the
latter are still enthusiastic.
Mixed foursomes are the best pos
sible scheme to keep both men and
women interested in the game. In
fact, at many of the courses they have
proved to be the only club events
which called forth a large field. Mixed
foursomes may be merely social golf,
but they serve the purpose Of keeping
the golf ball rolling and for that, if for
no other reason, they should be en-
couraged.
y. There is another point in connection
with golf upon which I Can never re-
sist giving my views. I mean the
practice of professional caddies in
matches. It seems to me unsports-
manlike to employ such ,extraneous
aid in matches.
TO say the last word I have. to say:
Golf is a glorious game for women.
The exercise is not too violent: and it
may be INDUCED in by the young and
the old, the lame, halt was going
to say blind, but one must keep ones
eye on the ball. 1t is a game for all
players of games and, if one is con
tent to plod along in ones own class,
a game to give pleasure to all. The
difficulty in the road to championship
honors is the necessity for constant
and unremitting practice. Again, to
play through tournament is a ter.
rible strain upon ones nerves and vi
tally; therefore, don't take golf toe
seriously, unless you wish to become
a subject for rest cure. Some WON
en-. do take golf too seriously, and
when their whole happiness becomes
involved in the winning and losing OF
matches they become objects fol
compassion rather than emulation:
Play the game primarily tor the
sake of the game, not: for the feeting
honors it., brings. It. is pleasant
enough to be champion, but not al
the cost of health and happiness and
after ALL, "a champion is only a. nine
days. wonder to a very small mum
Der of the world inhabitants. Play
the game for the diversion and: exer
else and play it squarely; if champion
ships result, SO much the better. but
we can't all be champi and ever
those who are sometimes get conceit
ed and are therefore not the pheasant
est people in the world to meat
I Golf 1sSa game for Wome en-, thar
which there is none better. But We al Z
! to be congratul ted upon the fact tina
lit has reached the pastime stage sAI
Ypkse iits sSridi lo'ls J; as purpos,
1 insn) eyable, hut m 4. game Il I'LL glolri
55IIous ma g q I've g !