The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-07-11
! DUDE SHINY IS
GIVEN A READING.
Now is the Season Of the Year When
the Golfers Are Nursing
Their Big
Sticks.
!ANENT CHILD LABOR
A Man Who Is Against overworking
the Young VIII Pay Boy
Fifty Cents For
"caddyIns."
ANENT CHILD LABOR

by Hal Sheridan. written for the
United Press.l
! NEW YORK, July 11.-Abcut this
time every year, and continuing until
somewhat later, the country is all
oluttered UP with contests for state
golf championships. 1t is now the
proper thing for presidents to play
golf. but they do not compete in
championship contests. A president
could never be champion golfer, be-
cause he doesn't have time. And a
champion golfer could never be pres
ident for the same reason
There are many stories as to how
! golf was invented, discovered or what
ever you want to call 1t, Just as there
are terrible yarns Of the way you be-
hayed yourself when you were a day
old. One story is that Scotch shep-
i herd, while tending his flock, grew
weary of the monotony one day and.
to amuse himself. began knocking
about small rock with his crook The
rock rolled into "a hole and the shep,
herd. deciding he had found simple
/ way OF amusing himself. tried 1t again
the ne1t day. And from that grew
golf At all events we now have golf.
| but 1t should not be construed from
this story that to play the game it is
necessary to have flock Of sheep.
A man weighing ESQ pounds, who
has acquired the golf habit will plead
fatty degenartion of the heart and
5, danger OF heat prostration when ask.
ed to wheel the baby around the
block, but he will trudge 20 miles
bareheaded under a blazing sun that
/ is curling up all vegetation In pursuit
of a golf ball To play good game
iof golf 1t takes two years OF practice,
and self denial in the use of "cuss
words when off the links. The de-
4 sire is to save them for real oppor-
tune time during a game Nothing 50
4 SO stubborn as a golf ball. They are
trained in the factory to balance
4 lightly on the edge Of the cup or hole,
and refuse to go in. As the game IS
to knock the ball around the course
4 fand this is very crude language for
golf, putting the ball into each OF
/ the Is holes in the least number OF
j strokes possible, this balancing stunt
Is not conducive to calmness on a hot
summer day Golf might be played
on smooth ground, much like the field
Of battle for croquette. But none
such. 1t is made as hard as possible.
| IL there are no natural distractions.
i hedges are coaxed to grow up; bunk
ers,' which are sort Of breastworks
are thrown up, which you must shoot
over. If 1t still isn't hard enough, a
pond will be made at the bottom OF
some hill which you must drive from.
At such point a ball seems to take
fiendish delight In sailing high into
!. the air and then suddenly duck ker.
PUNK into the pond Such little OBJ.
structlons as the pond, hedge or bun.
ker are called hazards"
II you go through the day withou,
wishing for an earthquake or tidal
, wave to change the landscape, 1t may
. be taken that you are progressing
] The terms used in playing the game
of golf are too numerous to mention,
, and a great many shouldn't be print.
ed. Those officially associated with
: the game and not merely lugged in
T when club snaps, or toe and not the
! ball is struck, are of little use off the
J links Taken In every day life, y
r you have it all figured out that you
, can slip away to the ball game but
meet the boss between your desk and
. the door. you are "stymied.' On the
links the same situation aries when
! your opponents ball Hes squarely
between your ball and the hole. Yor
!. might be able to reason successfully
: with the boss, but you can't reason
: with golf ball.
A good player always has the sum
!. cient number of golf clubs. but that
: does not mean that the man with the
! greatest number of clubs is the best
4 player Our best performers alwayf
have quite an array which are kept
in the stable" and polished and
nursed like thoroughbreds. And q
! man who will preach violently against
e child labor will pay small boy fit,
2 cents to lug heavy leather bag con
: tanning forty pounds of pig-iron or
/ the end Of sticks all over the goli
!. course all afternoon.
e. But great are the mysteries Of golf
A young Hercules who could knock a
baseball mile, Will quake before a