Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-05-07
How SHOULD GOLFERS DIET?
Problem that oOnfronts Players at the se-a
sens Opening.
ANOTHER FEATURE OF THE GAME SPRUNG
whether 90 Bant or TO Eat Freely a
MOOted POint-OddS Seems 10
Favor Consumers of
Hearty Vtands.

What food shall a golfer eat to play at
his best? 1t is a question that is puzzling
more than one player now that the tourn-
ament season has opened. More than one
local tournament has been won by a
player who has haunted the lobster pal
aces uuntil a. m. each day of the contest
and presumably trained on toasted cheese
and champagne. To the contrary, more
than one lost match has been blamed 10 a
too heavy breakfast or luncheon. Who
shall decide this vexing question?
Location has something to do with IT,.
On the northern links there are now as
sembled a host of golfers who have win
tered at resort courses, where three
squares" and incidental snacks are part
OF the days golfng. In Florida and south
ern California they have been eating fresh
strawberries and spring lamb for three
months and arriving in the north they
find these succulent viands just coming
into season to further tempt the appetite
The prizes. so far as may be learned, have
only been won by the golfers who have
been as faithful to the trenchers as to the
links. There is no record of a golfer win
ming who has forsaken the table. and with
the abnegation Of a hermit eaten only
toast and water as a preparation to his
golf.
Experts show No Signs.
The northerners, forced throughout the
winter to lusty foods of the season and
spiced at formal dinners by speeches that
had to be listened TO. have shown no ad-
vantage in point OF training TO the So
journers at the southern resorts, who have
been dallying with the tempting luxuries
OF the hotel tables. The travellers have
returned not enervated. but refreshed by
their high living. But for the change
from sanded to turf putting greens. in
deed. the resort players would have most
effectually wiped out the stay-at-homes,
a downfall for which the eye and touch
must be blamed and not the stomach. II
seems true that IN golf a generous diet is
the best system OF training, however
heretical this may be on the cinder path.
the gridiron or in a racing shell.
There is stiTl a suppostion quite general
that a light diet improves ones chances
in an athletic contest. Do we not re-
member the Spartan diet OF Tom Brown
/ at the meal before his great fight at
/ Rugby? But at golf the prize goes most
often TO the hearty eater, for the trudging
and whaclKing over a four-mile stretch OF
country cannot be kept up on a con-
| centrated food biscuit. 1t would be differ
OF exertion. as in a fight or a match at
/ tennis or racquets A delightful story OF
brain storm realization Of the fallacy
OF the sparse diet in golf is told by Sir
| Edgar Vincent, winner OF the English Par
liamentary handicap OF 1906 In the recol-
| iections OF his early golhng.
Sir EdERr vincent's Experience.
| "A few years ago ! was golhng in East
| Lothian and ! picked up three other play
| ers for four-ball foursome at Muirhed
| says Sir Vincent. zone Of the opposition
was a certain strong player who shall b,
namsless. on the morning Of the first day
| the match was halved, and in the Afternoon
| we again halved the same foursome This
was interesting, so we arranged to play
II again the next morning, and 10! an
! other half was the result The struggle 70
| supremacy thus became very intense ant
We went In 20 lunch on this second dal
feeling as keen as golfers can be. Now
when saw the strong man On the othe