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

In GHT here is where a lot of At
tx lanta newspaper men begin re-
garding George Adair as sort
4 Of patron SANTA very good sort, too.
Mr. Adar introduced them to golf.
/ And You may take 1t straight from
4 the said lot, including High Per
4 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 calIous systems
with all the keen and invigorating
Joy Of an entirely New Hunch.
And that does mean lotto
4 newspaper man.
ERE it is, now.
II Of the thirty-two entrants in
the Newspaper Mems Golf Tourney,
got up by Mr.. Adair. fully half were
4 1nacquainted with the game. Some
4 of them might have shaken hands
with a golf club in days gone by, or
i even threatened the green sward with
be same
But they hadn't regularly played
GOLF, or tried to play IT.
Now, in a golf tournament, this
hing 'Ncks out:
Every body who starts a tournament
match plays IL out for all there is in
him.
That is one of the things that golf
Prs hold to be self-evident, like the
Immortal Truths in the Declaration
4 ot Independence.
i Nd here is the Second Point, as
put forward by Mr.. George AIDE
recently:
As soon as the Tyro gets one
SQUARE Belt at a golf ball. and sees
he same get up from the Earth and
cave that precinct in a beautiful
mite Arc, the Golf Bacillus runs up
ano bites him on the leg"
il does,
I'm nW, most of these newspaper men
had been brought up to regard
aseoall as the Regular Sport, with
4 9ol7all as sort of ffller-in between
ne playing of the Worlds Series and
ne beginning of Spring Practice.
'siI ttO them) was known by odd
marathon CrOquet." One newspaper
man confronted with the present
ou[tn,ament, described golf as being
'Ains more nor less than batting
gllnlne pill around a big field with
long stick"
ana 1t was an old mans game"
" ano all that sort of thing.
INV BILL Mr.. Affair." who is militant
golfer, whether he will admit it
Mr. Adair got hold of pref
..ta In the way of scquainting the
s. "SPaper men with the game, He
usN 'oeing golfer) what was nee
>5rF TO- expose them to the attacks
yle bacillus discovered by Mr. AIDE.
So he lust got up this little tourna-
,g". ana offered handsome trophies
r me two fights, and one for the
u,'Her-np in the first fight and he
N up 10 the men who worked
VII NJ me Atlanta papers.
n you'd they play?
-nev would.
nose who knew something of the
due were for" it instantly. Those
Nhe" nothing of the game took
, WI with the loyal instinct Of every
newspaper mantle willingness
81 Try 'nything once.
i No Now what7
,u5 ne Bacillus has got them.
LHe tournament isn't half over.
r.
".HE is Fuzzy Woodruff. II you
q a,,," '', on a newspaper, you know
" Won don't work on a news
gao ''I probably know Fuzzy, any
Il Izzy's own statement, at the
NJ the tourney he was p
it, '2ring man, like Billy Bones
4 s1re Island"
i 0 said Fuzzy, in the words
ham 'oos THAT do seafaring
.0.w about nibtcks and stymies
now Fuzzy is CARRYING around
'.r cards in the breast pocket
PANTS and explaining that it
-. the bitterest kind of mis-
Il ,a1t kept him out Of 'S"
II IT, while that IS" on No 3
a h, .a aEclusively to an unspeal5-