Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
By O. B. Keller.

#D IGHT here Is where a lot of At
Fl * lanta newspaper men begin re-
garding George Adair as a sort
n Of patron SANTA very good sort too.
n Mr.. Adair introduced them to golf.
a Aud you may take it straight from
2 he said lot, including q High Per
Il eentage Of more or less Calleus Per
h sons. that the ancient and honeFa-
Fl Die Scottish game is working it's way
4 into their more or less callous systems
with all the keen and inyigoFating
h 10y Of an entirely New Hunch-
And that does mean q Lotto a
81 newspaper man.
hit ERE it is, now.
IL OF the thirty-two entrants in
II he Newspaper Mems Golf Tourney,
#g0t up by Mr. Adair, fully half were
II gnacquainted with the game. Some
Of them might have shaken hands
with a golf club in days gone by, or
even threate the green sward with
n be same
Fl But they hadn't regularly played
n golf or tried to play 1t.
Il Now in a golf tournament, this
II hing FNcSs out:
II Every body who starts a tournament
$match plays it out for all there is in
n nm
Il That is one Of the things that golf
Eefs hold to be self evident, like the
Il immortal Truths in the Declaration
IL dependence.
q Nd here is the Second Point, as
put forward by Mr.. George AIDE
#cegentiy:
As soon as the Fyro gets one
&'quare Belt at a golf ball, and sees
q he same get up from the Earth and
cave that precinct in a beautiful
Fl Nhtte Arc. the Golf Bacillus runs up
and bites him on the leg"
1t does,
Mn oW. most of these newspaper men
mad been brought up to regard
II BASEBALL as the Regular Sport, with
ootoaIl as a sort of filler-in between
Il ne playing of the Worlds Series AMI
II ne beginning of Spring Practice.
Golf to them) was known by odd
names like 'imountain pool" and
marathon croquet." One newspaper
man, confronted with the present
ournament, described golf as being
Iuthihg more nor less than batting
Il qlinine pill around a big field with
|9ng stick"
Il And It was IAN old mans game"
ana all that sort Of thing,
HW ELL, Mr.. Adair, who Is a militant
golfer, whether he will admit ii
pr not-Mr. Adair got hold Of a pref
ldea In the way of aequaintiHg the
e"spaper men with the game. He
Nhs" '5eing GOLFER what was nee
sSary to expose them to the attacks
y. me Bacillus discovered by Mr.. AIDE.
30 he Just got up this little teurna
sIsAt and offered handsome trophies
o' the Two flights. and one for the
,,hher-up in the first flight, and he
nl' II up to the men who worked
o. the Atlanta papers
Would they play?
Il They would.
those who knew something of the
81 zane We're for It instantly Those
no knew nothing of the game took
on with the loyal instinct OF every
'5 newspaper man-the willingness
q ny anything once.
Ia Nd Now what?
The Bacillus has got them.
aAo the tournament isn't half over
Il HEHh is Fuzzy Woodruff. n you
4 Ill., work on a newspaper, you know
'14y. IL you don't work on news
g .i'eF YOU probably know Fuzzy. any
hE Fuzzy's own statement, at the
hlng Of the tourney he was a
~, seafaring man, like Billy Bones
Treasure Island"
,. and, said Fuzzy, in the words
me book what do a seafaring
Ny snow about niblieks and stymies
H'-Ht now Fuzzy is carrying around
score cards in the breast pocket
us pants and explaining that it
s only the bitterest kind Of mis-
o., me that kept him out of a.
no. II, while that "s" on No 3
r. Que exclusively to an unspeak-