Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1913-12-16
GOLF GOSSIP
BY STRAIGHT DRIVE.

quite unfcunded belief that the bad
player gets more fun out of golf than
the good one, says the London Field.
Even the fact that the chancellor Of
the exchequer has publicly allowed 1t
win not have much permanent effect.
5 The wish Is frequently father to
The thought and not all good conser-
natives are good golfers. Therefore.
some or them win continue to think
that when the habitual foozler makes
u good shot he experiences thrill Of
pleasure unknown to the scratch man
~ whose experience gross mistake.
with any club except his putter, Is q
disconcerting exception 10 rule. The
facts are. Of course. against them and
their latest spokesman.
The pleasure Of golf Is tripartite ii
clean hit brings an exquisite Joy TO
the senses; Il also produces moral
satisfaction In that the striker has
conquered nervousness and has
fought successfully against himself
and his original tendency to error;
finally. the result gratifes his intel
lect, for he knows how and why It
was achieved. When Lloyd George
lloled his historic tee shot in the
south OF France his intellectual pleas
ufe cannot have been very poignant,
for he did not on his own confession
look for his ball In the hole as q
scratch man would have done, know
ing that 1t could be nowhere else
since he had played his shot perfectly.
We appeal to him and to the others
to tell as whether they can lay hand
on heart and say that there Is any
marked Intellectual satisfaction In
executing good stroke II they can
not dispute the proposition Of an op-
ponent or his caddie, should either
describe the feat as abeastly fiuke!n
The question OF the degree Of moral
qualification attained might be debat-
ed on Identical lines.
We will therefore pass to the con-
sheraton Of physical pleasure and IN
quire whether man whose sense Of
touch Is so lacking In delicacy that
he possesses an enormous handicap,
and il reconciled TO the possession Of
Il can fully appreciate the thrill Of e.
clean hit. Such problem can never
be settled by actual demonstration
but evidence Of the probable truth Isl
fofthcoming
4 Firstly, It is pure accident IL the
long handicap man owns really fine
club, which Is necessity II the glo-l
fious 10y OF 4 perfect shot Is TO be-
experienced IN ali its fullness. Sec
ondly. there Ii French proverhl
which tells how the appetite for good
thi1es CREWS 81 The Ating saOf them.
Practice makes perfect In hedonism
a III other arts
But Lloyd Georges speech to the
members Of the Criccieth Golf Club
contained second fallacy more per-
nicious than that which we have al. 4
ready endeaEored to expose. Wishing
to praise golf. he insulted It by dwell
Ing on the benefit to the players
health which results from the exer.
else taken during the course Of 81
round on the links.
Far be it from US to deny that ex-
srcise Ii headthful and that the partic,
nlar kind Of exercise which the golfer |
must take justifes doctors In recon-
It to patients Of middle age. |
What we take exception to IL the im.I
piled advice to golf for exercise. No
game is worth playing unless 1t be-
comes for the player, while playing.
IN end IN ITSELF We might 60 further
md say that the game, while It lasts, |
should be the players supreme end. /
4 It Is not he must fail to prove him-I
,elf q worthy opponent.
We know from painful experiences
he golfer who COLTS for exercise and |
having lost his match proclAims that
lie does not greatly care whether he /
wins or not, provided he has had e /
lice walk In the fresh afr. II pressed.
he win probably say that he consid-
srs himself for this very reason to be
!, good loser" As q matter OF fact
lie Is nothing OF the kind. for he has
allied to give his opponent the salts
action Of beating one who resents de-
eat as keehly as Is consistent with
yood manners and fights his hardest
o avoid it.
In conclusion, let sit be said that,
much the chancellor Of the
.xchequer may. deTide his, own skill
it golf, those who are familiar with
lis play know him to be intensely
teen when engaged in match: he
possesses his die share of that oath
III desire, for mastery which Mr..
HIS noted to be the essen
ial qualification of q worthy antago-
list. Therefore, it well becomes him
o lead others astray by deyotfng any
art Of (public speech to eulogy of
,oh as 4 purveyor OF exercise. I
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VIVA: do you mean by coming in
lere with that tire all cut to rib
,ona9" shouted the enraged owner OIL