Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-01-29
GOLF WILL GET YOU, IF
YOU DON'T LOOK OUT
Attacks the Very Second the
First Swing Is Taken.
VERY SIMPLE TO. AN OUTSIDER
Appears the Easiest of Tricks to Soak
That Little Ball Far on Into
Spacc-.JuSt Try IA Round and
You ArcsGonc.

NEW YORK. January 2S.--Golf will
Ectcha il YOU don't watch out. Laugh
at the game. If YOU wish: call IL sense
less. childlcss and n lot OF other things
along hc sam" line. I'ut don't tempt
fate by clutching a club ana taking
even one swipc al tho bah. If Won do.
you arc lost forever 10 the anti rulfnE
clan.
Golf ia t;amc whose dcvotccs are
made up largely of men who used to
think that of all tho silly games. golf
was the silicst. They jccr"d ut the
golfers, they ridicmlcd the game. And
then ono day they got club in their
palms, took Il swing at the hall-and
now they ar" go,ing ticnds.
Golf IS unlike amy other athletic
game" The EolrnC fever attacks YOU
The very second that YOU take Your
nrs' swing; Other games, like tennis.
naSnHaii bowling hockey. football.
different
WY does golf ensnarc with tho
That's question that no man ever
has been able to answer satisfactorily
But il docs.
When YOU take your first sling ut tho
golf ban one of thrc" things happens.
You miss the ball altogether. YOU hit
!, mil or 50 after meeting il square
bling for II distance of only "A few feet.
In any case the fewer attacks and you
are Il victim.
Hccome All Pulled Up.
If You should happen to get in n
! Tyer your skill Luck" Not hi;
you knew what YOU were talking about
when YOU said that il was a silly
childish game. What's that? Tho other
fellows insist ii was luck. and that YOU
can't duplicate that shot on your next
try.
Well. you,n show EN-. And YOU take
And from that time on golf ensnares
YOU.
xo rrc ,,aI oily; like thousands Of others,
iirSt swing and pillow up Il yard OF earth
behind or alongside the ball. That
h i%%%iT is the means Of enslavins you
your miss was n bit of bad luck-and
nothing else. The game seems so
figure ont that it needs skill to meet
that ball squnrcly and fully. So you
lay it TO bad luck--or to accident
yo MnsS ,nnt, the T HrS' SWIM puts YOU on
to convince everybody. including YOUR
SELF. that its an easy matter. 10 hit
and far away; Chances are that you'll
either miss the second swing or that
yy",Giil tor your ball. That second
keep on tryIng-and by the time that
You've met the ball the way II should
be mot. the golf fever will be raging
in your veins. You're victim
Golf looks like Il simple game To
the outsider il seems like the simplest
OF tricks 10 soak that little ball of rub
Der ana hammer II far off into space
but All things aren't as they seem to
be- Md golf is one of those
Perhaps you'll be one Of the hundred
on the first attempt from the tee. That
VIII cause you TO tell the golfers whom
YOU nave laughed At that it's just as
Sinpl" game as you always insisted
II was. Then you'll be invited to play
just one complete hole. You'll try an
approach shot-and you'll find things
diNe:ent. Eventually you Will reach
inc green. Your ball lies six to ten
leet from the little hole. 1t looks like
a simple matter TO roll your ball into
IT. You'll try-and how different
Probably the fact tina, golf looks
like such an easy game TO pIav is tho
main reason that ii is such n lure
When the skcptic figures the distance
that bali Will travel when Dronnrl,.
wallopcd, he will think IL cinch Ia
make 32S-yard hole in five shots Hen
Try it-and. If he is lucky, he'll do
MS hrst holo In 10.
Ih"n the. lighting spirit will come Ia
the Tore. The player Will try that hole
over again. He's ashamed that sucb
an innocent little game could balk MIN
so II others can make that mol. In
hvc shots, 90 can he. He tries again
ana makes IL in 10. or IL, or IL or ri,c,
u lie tries again-and again and
And he tries to the end Of his d,ys