Evening journal., 1913-07-10
GOLF PLAY
BECOMES The
COUNTRY RAGE
Proper Thing for Even the
President to Tee Over
the Links
ORIGIN OF GAME?
THAT'S A MYSTERY
BY Hal Sherman.

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NEW YORK, July 10.-About this
time every year, and continuing until
somewhat later, the country is all
cluttered up with contests for State
golf championships. IL is now the
proper thing for Presidents to play
golf, but they do not compete In
championship contests President
could never be a 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
whatever you want to call IT, just as
there are terrible yarns of the way
you behaved yourself when you were
a day old. One story is that Scotch
shepherd, while tending his flock,
grew weary of the monotony one day,
and, to amuse himself, began knock
ing about a small rock with his
crook The rock rolled into a hole
and the shepherd. deciding he had
found a simple way of amusing him
self, tried II again the next day.
And from that grew golf. At all
events we now have golf, but II
should not be construed from this
story that 10 play the game II is nee
essary to have a flock of sheep.
A man Weighing ESQ pounds. who
has acquired the golf habit will plead
fatty degeneration of the heart and
danger of heat prostration when
asked 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 game Of golf ball. To play a
good game OF golf IL takes two years
Of practice, and self denial In the use
Of "cuss words'--when off the links.
The desire is to save them for a real
opportune time during a game. Moth
ing Is so stubborn as golf ball
They arc trained in the factory TO
balance 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 (and this is very crude
language for golf, putting tho ball
around the holes In the least number
OF strokes possible. this balancing
stunt is not conducive to calmness
on hot summer day. Golf might be
played on smooth ground, much like
:he field Of battle for croQuette. But
none such. II Is made as hard as
possible. If there are no natural
Instructions. hedges are coaxed to
/ grow mp. II II still isn't hard enough.
pond will he made at the bottom
Of some Hill which you must drive
from AZ such a point a ball seems
10 take hendish delight In sailing
high into the air and then suddenly
duck er-plunk into the pond Such
little obstruction as the pond. hedge
N.attI IL HII
II you 80 through the day without
wishing for an earthquake or tidal
wave 20 change the landscape. II may
be taken thar you are progressing.
The terms used In playing the game
of golf are to numerous to mention,
and q grcut many shouldn't be
printed, Those officially associated
With the game and not merely lugged
In when a club snaps or toe and not
the han is struck, are of little use OF
The links. Taken In every day life, II
YOU have it all figured out that you
can slip away 10 the ball game but
meet the boss between your desk
and the door you are "stymied." On
the links the same situation arises
when your opponents bali lies
squaroly between your bali and The
I N'i's Nu UlhUl ii dhlt 10 reason
successfully with tho boss. but you
can't reason with golf ball.
A good player always has the suni-
| cient number OF golf clubs. hut that
/ does not mean that the man with the
greatest number of clubs Is the best
( player Our best performers always
have Quitean array which are kept in
the. stable and polished and nursed
like thoroughbred And a man who
Will preach violently against ohild
labor will pay a small boy fifty cents
20 lug a heavy leather bag contain
ing forty pounds of pig iron on tho
end Of sticks all over the golf course
all afternoon.
Put great are the mysteries ol
golf A young Hercules who could
knock a baseball a mile. will quake
before a diminutive golf ball Aftel
digging up several hundred feet o.
earth he may be able to hit II. anc
the blow that might he expected I,
split the ball asunder will probably
send il all OF ten feet or less. Blu
again. a puny individual or a mer'
youth will send the ball sailing ava
for 200 yards or more, Il is al il
the form" Without knowing jus