Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-15
By TARLETON COLLIER.

Bull sluice!'
And why bull sluice?" The negro cadde,
maybe enlightens you:
ITS de biggest dam in Georgia. boss
And you learn something that may be of
perceptible advantage to the welfare of your
immortal soul
OF course, Dr. White is not alone in his use
of the happy expletive. All the clergymen-
golfers can say bull sluce" unconsciously
and unblushingly
Most inveterate of the golfers among the
ministers are perhaps DR.. C. B. Wilmer rector
of St Luke's Episcopal Church; DR.. John E.
White Of the Second Baptist Church; DIR. John
F. Purser, of the West End Baptist Church;
DR.. c. w. Daniels, of the First Baptist Church.
Dr.. r. O. Finn, of the North Avenue Presby
terrain Church, DR.. Hugh NJ. Walker. of the
First Presbyterian Church.
And about this matter of championship
WELL you must find out for yourself who is the
best of the lot. 1t must be said Of these
preacher-people that they are modest enough
when it comes to talking about their own
personal achievements, even concerning golf
and a vurry, vurry unusual thing it is, too, to
find hardened golfer who is not bursting
with the eager desire to talk about his score.
For instance, you ask DR.. Wilmer about it.
oh we're all champions | guess he
evades Il don't know who has the low
score"
And yet, it is Dr. Wilmer himself who, to all
intents and purposes, must be regarded as the
champion of the clergymen At least, he is
the only one of the lot who has tangible evil
dence in the shape of silver cups to prove that
he is champion. One of the cups is an actual,
bona-fide indubitable championship cup,
in handicap match played at Maine summer
resort. The other two are merely runner-up
cups, DR.. Wilmer informs you rather apologet-
icaly. And you wonder why man should
apologize for golf trophy, even though it be
runner-up cup
DR.. Wilmer, too, is probably the pioneer
golfer of the clergymen who are in Atlanta
to-day. There may have been several before
him. but they have passed on to other charges.
"And why shouldn't a minister play golf?'
says he
"a minister must be- above everything else,
human" he explains. Golf takes him out
doors. 1t quickens his blood and his under
standing. The minister lives under a great
nervous strain, nowadays, and golf gives him
the opportunity to relax, and in an hour or
two to work up an enthusiasm and energy that
will last him for days
And if you know DR.. Wilmer who is a very
human person, you can readily understand that
golf is all he says it is He by the way is one
of the few who are not "bull-sluicers." He
has passed that stage of amateurishness when
badly placed shots and foozles come to stir
ones soul. He can do the. nine holes in few
more than 40 strokes.
But as far as that goes DR.. John r. White
can make it in As, and he is frankly and I'M
ashamedly addicted to the of bull sluice."
And with it all, he is as enthusiastic golfer
as you will find in a days journey.
IT'S the game with punch says he, with
a twiddle of his cleek And it is good for
everybody ministers and all Don't think for
a minute that clergymen are beyond the sins
of the flesh They must learn sef-restraint as
well as anyone else. And golf is the game to
teach it to them. If you don't believe it, take
your sticks and try round of the course, and
see how many times you have to bite your
tongue to hold back things you shouldn't say
And it's the greatest game of all There
was a man once
And then he went to tell story, a story
that is real and true in its golf psychology, if