New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-08

over IT, But after the turf cuttn' was finished and old
Hickory had beat 1t for the shower BATH had little
side talk with the Caddc the subject. He bright,
wise lookn, hall grown young smoke, and answers To
the name Of Milton Smith.
"Miton. SAYS l. ION the level now-thc boss Is pretty
rank at this got thing amt he"
"Ya,.uh. says Milton. "Ah spec he IS
ever seen worse" SAYS |.
He admits he amt. often.
And he's bad ch, 10 get out and play in the same
class with the average Of these old buffers, says l.
Milton want anxious 10 cast any asparagus on the
play IF q certain party who WAS p4yin INN seven a
week rcRlar for two hours work a day; but by hard
pumpin got enough out Of him | could frame mp
gen raj view ot the situation And that about u.
Old Hickory who'd always been "a topnochcr IN any
thing he'd ever tackled, was mp against proposition
now where hc didn't rank onc-,wo-,iNtccn. And
could guc-s, too, just how deep that must cut him.
Also this gave me the key to his queer actions that
"A mun,u'. when he'd stood around for morcn halt
an hour wai'iu' idle while the other old sports IN
bunrhc, Of ,wo- and fours had started of, and him
never bcu asked 'o Join IN They seemed 90 be- gctuu
a., Of fun ou' ot 10 tOD lp,hn each other and maxim
side bets ON the length Of their drive ana $" on.
hearty husky lot Of old gents they looked 10 be. AMI
when II come 20 compilations say. I've seen. that Wild
chcrr-bak INT here IN town. you know, the kind that
looks Ike u was burned IN permanent, and ! q Won
dcrci how you got H. | know now. Palm Beach or
Nassau in winter. Pine Springs or Lakewood durIu'
April. Nav and June, and either the White Mountains
Bar IIarbor al summer. That the recipe and
believe me, II comes some hight
II seems just the sort Of thing Mr.. Elns needs Too,
and Of course there want any question but what DEE
could afford H. AZ luncheon limited as much, and the
hint struck 81 chord.
"Ycs | suppose so, says Old Hickory, slghn deep
and -'arn' abs,ntminicd into hi, soup. And these
CHAPS will hang on most Of them into the seventies and
cghtic- Perhaps they are satisfied with tins sort 81
existence too but couldn't be. Coli may be all night
10 fool away halliday with now and then; but IT isn't
big enough game for me To live for entirely Look at
these men here. Ia~bccu~. I've known most Of cm
in my time and forgotten cm. There old Rutior
over there. Why, we bought HIM out ana closed up ms
,rncltcrs back I'm 90 Then there Parkloc, over m the
corner He quit somewhere IN 1902 or 1901, heart
trouble believe His sons are running the business
now Icli-on here just at the left, pulled out about
the same time Couldn't stand the strain. Well, they re-
still on top Of the sod But what DO they amount Ia,
Whv they can still play golf. BAH Not for me- Son,
I'm built differently Just the same, Ia give thousand
dollars yes fyc-ii could stand mp IN front Of that
bunch lust once and show en- could hit the ball.
And if YOU could have the solid set To that rugged
law Of old IIickory's, you'd known just how hard he
@Say. says |, gcttin sudden wild thought suppose
YOU could, lust once;
"Thcn III call it quits and take the consequences,
says he grim and determined
We'll I didn't spring my scheme then. In fact
VA MT wise enough the game to know whether could
pull il of or not First had to have another talk with
Milton And Milton dug up some ideas that helped
Next had to the greens keeper VINO deals III gGi
clubs as side line At first ne didn't think he could
doctor ND a club the way we'd skctchcd 1t out; but
when took a chance Of promisin him twenty from
Nr Ellns he said maybe he might. Sure enough, he
did too We had the club by nine O'Clock that night,
and IN bet that in the whole hstry Of golf there never
was one built ike II before.
Uayin' started in was bound to put the thing over
co Inv six l. NJ next mornin had dug MIR. Elins out
of The bav, and for an hour and half him and me
and Milton rchc,rscd the act out behind the hotel
where nobody could watch us. ! was dom the heavy
@Xow remember Mr. Eins, says |, "you amt tryin
TO knock the cover off. Just hit it clean. You got to
hit it, You can too, if you just follow Milton direC-