Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-04
BY 0. B. Keller.

~ lGHT here is where a lot of At
i IL Ianta newspaper men begin re-
garding George Adair as a sort
oL patron SANTA very good sort, too.
Mr. Adair introduced them to golf
And YOU may take it straight from
the said lot, including a High Per-
4 uentage of more or less Callous Per-
sons that the ancient and honora-
Die Scottish game is working its way
into their more or less callous systems
with all the keen and invigorating
tov Of an entirely New Hunch.
And that does mean lotto a
newspaper man.
HERE it is, now.
OF the thirtv-two entrants in
the Newspaper Mems Golf Tourney,
got up by Mr. Adair, fully half were
lu5cQuaiuted with the game. Some
Of them might have shaken hands
with q golf club in days gone by, or
even threatened the green sward with
he same.
Blu, they hadn't regularly played
COLI or tried TO play it.
Nov, in a golf tournament, this
thing NEcks out:
Everybody who starts a tournament
match plays it out for all there is in
him
That is one of the things that golf
s hold to be evident, like the
immortal Truths in the Declaration
'l dependence.
A MD 1ere is the Second Point, as
D ol. forward by Mr., George AIDE
re nifty.
"'s soon g the Tyro gets one
he Belt at a golf ball and sees
DE- same get up from the Earth and
.aNn lh7t precinct in a beautiful
White Are. the Golf Bacillus runs up
and bites him on the leg"
it does.
N 'N most Of these newspap per men
had been brought up to regard
baseball as the Regular Sport, with
looloa'l a. a sort Of filler-in between
me playing Of the Worlds Series AMI
Inc beginning Of Spring Practice.
F9lf (to them) was known by odd
names, like mountain pool" and
marathon croquet" One newspaper
man, confronted with the present
tournament. described golf az being
nothing more nor less than batting
goinine pill around a big field with
long stick"
And IL was IAN old mans game"
ana all that sort of thing.
w ELL, Mr. Adair, who is militant
golfer whether he will admit it
~. not-Mr. Adair got hold Of pref
N '0ea in the way Of acquainting the
'e"snaper men with the game, He
n"e" ibeing golfer) what was nee
.>+rV to expose them to the attacks
,0e Bacillus discovered by Mr.. AIDE.
80 ne Just got up this little tourna-
.'HAr and offered handsome trophies
for the two flights and one for the
,In1ner-up in the first fight, and he
put # up to the men who worked
on The Atlanta papers.
Mould they play?
They would.
Those who knew something of the
same we're "for" it instantly. Those
"Ao Knew nothing of the game took
on with the loyal instinct Of every
rue newspaper mantle willingness
" Try anything once
A Nd NOW what?
The Bacillus has got them.
ana the tournament isn't half over.
HERE is Fuzzy Woodruff. II you
H.. work on newspaper, you know
WY. II YOU don't work on news
r@pef, You probably know Fuzzy, any
by I'uzzys own statement, al the
W.. ming of the tourney he was
',' I'D seataring man, like Billy Bones
re7sure Island"
% ana said Fuzzy, in the words
W Iao book, what do a seafarlag
man know about niblicks and stymies
s1- hunkers?"
t,L.' EAt now Fuzzy is carrying around
H.8 score cards in the breast pocket
W. ms pants and explaining that 1t
s-7 only the hitterest kind Of mis-
,- me that kept him out Of a "3"
W.T. NO II, while that 49, on No. 3
, M.s due exclusively to an unspealI-
a0.a saudrit.