The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-02
Some devotces of the game.

ever. from Toronto where he was the instructor at the Edgewood Country club for two years. This followed a period of similar experience at the golf club of Hamilton and one in Pittsburg. It was while in Toronto 12 years ago that he played for the first time with one of the local players who has both skill and enthusiasm in handling the clubs, Mrs. R. H. Thach. However, he has been connected with the local club for sev- eral years-long enough, indeed to in culcate great enthusiasm and interest among the many whom he is coaching so successfully. And the number of se- ciety people here who are playing solt is astonishing. To gain some idea of inc number one has only to hear that there are 75 caddies in regular employ and on Saturdays when many of the club men spend their days on the green, an even hundred of the boys are reauir- ed. They are an amusing lot, these little black boys, and on pleasant day one finds them scattered over the course like very animated blackbirds. Mack, a fun ny little black fellow with very wide grin which is as tireless as the spirited little legs that carry him so nimDly over the links, is the ladies' favorite and a very busy boy, though there are lot of other caddes, good and bad. One finds the ouaintest examples of the type, and that the players at the club are decid- efly given to preferences. Much it seer1s depends upon the caddy. An authority, when asked to define poor caddy, gave the following answer: He is never up with, the player, but lags behind chroh- icaIly, not realizing that he has the same number of steps to take anyway; has either much imposed upon expression or else one of profound indifference to the game or anything relating to it. will Insist upon getting back of your ball when you are making a stroke, even go- ing out of his way to do it; delights in rattling clubs or something or other' or in moving or talking when you are putting always requires to be told when to remove the flag; never can tell Inc distance of any hole. in whole or in part; invariably hands you the wrong club; never, or very ldiFS piSNSHN'' " N who your ball goes; has a peculiar fac ulty of never being able to find lost ball: never knows how many strokes YOU or your opponent have played at any hole: neither knows or cores whether you are two up or three down; will insist on standing close up to the hole when the ground is very moist-thereby mallng the hole akin to one of those impossible indoor practice-putting holes-inverted ealicers with q hole in--and adding large ly to the profane vocabulary of the most piously inclined; keeps the pin in bie hole and allows the ball to strike it and law dead-always when your opponent is putting; runs, actually runs-of coutse ,he only time he shouldn't-on very soft putting green; loses, or-new balls from the bal-pocket of your bag; sticks the point of the hoe-marker in the ground on the greer fails to properly set il in the hole. thereby breaking the sides: runs off after butterflies; tells won all about the wonderful shots A brought off the day before; hasn't the faintest idea how to make a tee; never takes your ball out of the hole; never thinks of cleaning it--in shot he does every conceivable think which he sholl not do, and leaves undone everything which he should do." So much for the bad caddy. A club which has links as