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


* lanta newspaper men begin re-
garding George Adair as a sort
Of patron SANTA very good sort, too.
Mr. Adair introduced them to golf.
the said lot, including a High Per-
centage OF more or less Callous Per-
sons, that the ancient and honora-
bic Scottish game is working its way
into their more or less callous systems
with all the keen and invigoratlng
Joy Of an entirely New Hunch.
And that does mean a lotto a
newspaper man.
II ERE it is, now.
L OF the thirty-two entrants in
the Newspaper Mems Golf Tourney
got up by Mr. Adair, fully half were
unacquainted with the game. Some
of them might have shaken hands
with a golf club in days gone by, or
even threatened the green sward with
the same IS,
But they hadn't regularly played
golf. or tried to play It.
Now in golf tournament, this
thing SNcks out;
Everybody who starts a tournament
match plays it out for all there is in
him
That is one of the things that golf
ers hold to be self evident, like The
Immortal Truths in the Declaration
of Independence.
"a put forward by Mr.. George AIDE
recently;
AS soon as the Tyro gets one
square Belt at a golf ball, and sees
the same get up from the Earth and
leave that precinct in a beautiful
White Arc. the Golf Bacillus runs up
and bites him on the leg"
1t does.
n OW most of these newspaper men
had been brought up to regard
baseball as the Regular Sport. with
football as a sort of filler-in between
the playing Of the Worlds Series and
the beginning of Spring Practice
Golf (to them) was known by odd
names, like mountain pool" and
marathon croquet." One newspaper
man, confronted with the present
tournament described golf as being
nothing more nor less than batting
quinine pill around big field with
long stick"
And it was IAN old mans game"
And all that sort of thing.
w ELL. Mr.. Adair, who is a militant
golfer, whether he will admit II
mr. not-Mr. Adair got hold Of pref
~ idea in the way of acquainting the
newspaper men with the game. He
knew (being a GOLFER what was nee
esSary to expose them to the attacks
Or the Bacillus discovered by Mr. AIDE
So he just got up this little tourna-
ment and offered handsome trophies
Ior the two flights. and one for the
runner-up in the first flight. and he
put it up to the men who worked
on the Atlanta papers.
Would they play?
They would
Those who knew something Of the
game were for" ii instantly Those
VINO knew nothing of the game took
Il on with the loyal instinct Of every
rue newspaper mantle willingness
10 try anything once.
A Nd NOW what?
The Bacillus has got them.
And the tournament isn't half over.
'iErNE4 Is fulZy woodruff II ""
work on a newspaper, you know
Fuzzy. If you don't work on a news
papPr YOU probably know Fuzzy, any
NaV
Rv Fuzzys own statement, at the
beginning Of the tourney ne was
1-'aln. seafaring man. like Billy Bones
N Treasure Island"
And" said Fuzzy, in the words
n the book, what do a seafariag
man know about niblicks and stymies
and bunkers?"
Right now Fuzzy is carrying around
his score cards in the breast pocket
or his pants and explaining that It
was only the bitterest kind OF mis-
tort"ne that kept him out of y
m No. II, while that "s" on No, 3
wae due exclusively to an unspeak-
bic sandpit.