The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-03
Ny DOLLY nALRYMPLE

YN VERYBoDY is going to swear ! lS of" from everything else tomor- ~ row, the Glorious Fourth, and hie themselves tc the Country club and give
 their mite toward helping the Red Cross
 by joining the golf tournament, even The capital Golfer named "G" Who drove from a capital "T' And tire words he let fall When addressing the wall All began with capital "D''- As I say, even he is going to swear
 orr swearing about his game tomorrow, and get into the game just for the sake
 of the Bed Cross; and whether he makes
 good record playing golf or whether
 he doesn't isn't going to make any dis-
 terence, because you see it's all for our
 boys "oyer there,'' and that is sufficient.
 Whether you belong to the Country
 club or not; whether you are crack
 golf player or not; whether you ever
 won a prize at any game, golf, pinochle,
 bridge or what not; whether you ever
 got the prize of a chainless bicycle for
 the best dancer or a Singer sewinS
 machine for the best skater, none of 1t
 matters-its your Christian and "boun-
 den duty,' as the dar1eys say, to set
 your nice little 93 cents alarm clock Tor
 an early hour Thursday morning, follow the wake nd -call-me early mother
 dear" effect and report at the Country
 club for duty on July Fourth A. D. a9lS.
 "Tell me something about the goir
 tournament for the Red Cross that you
 haven't told anybody else; make some
 new and original suggestions so that 1 may write story that is readable and different" I begged of nice little Mrs. Saxton Crawford, chairman of publicity for the Red Cross golf tournament. and who is working with all her
 might and main for the success of the
 tournament and who isn't going to allow the word 'fail' spelling room in tho
 supplement even of the optimistic lexi
 con she is using for tfre Red Cross tour-
 nament
 "If PavloWe were to summon me Su1- denly to step off a few suggestions for
 new dance I couldn't be more over come than at the idea of my giving Dolly a suggestion for readable story about
 the Red Cross tournament" Mrs. Craw- ford coplimented me by saying: How ever now. as I've gotten the inevitable apolo out of my system-let's see-the detail some of them. well, the first IS that the tournament is to be sort of a catcir-as-catch-can affair, cash or credit purse or pencil, is equally efficient for 30miSSiOu fee and your refreshments and tip the waiter, or you may sign the little ticket that, like the bad penny, always turns up again.
 While golt will be the chief feature there will be other forms of amusement each with it's attendant opportunity fol contributing said Mrs. Crawford. T have it on hearsay, not being per
 sonally familiar, of course, with those mysterious neither regions at the Country club, that even downstairs the appeal oi the Red Cross will be heard, and that tainted money will be offered a chance fo
 purify itself according to the following hints posted on the bulletin boards. Foi instance:
 |" TO Whom It May Concern: "'There is a rumor that a number of faithful club members are using that extra hour of daylight down in tn, lfatnSkellar III NdrlOuS anu SuiiuA J games Of chance. If this is true, it < suggested that on Thursday they give their red ones to the Red Cross And again." she continued, there 1s | this Notice:
 "As a special patriotic feature of th7 Glorious Fourth, games in the Rath- skellar will be played with red, white ano blue markers.
 Military organizations are incomplete without a mascot, and so the local Red l Cross has adopted beautiful little kitty | which will be loaned to the Country clut | for the Fourth. It is hoped the card | players will pet and feed this kitty lib
 orally during the day.
 ! Golfers will be interested to know thai
 the rules of the game for the Red Cross
 tournament are few and simple" Mrs | Crawford said. "The matches may bt twosomes or foursomes, mixed ol
 straight, everyone naming their owr handicap before starting. The net score coming nearest the blind bogie Ca secret number between 70 and 80 drawn by lot) 1 wins the medal offered by the Nationa Golf association. This form of play was formerly known as Mckers' tourna
 ment, since it was supposed to offer tt the chronic kickers chance to get even
 for once, with the handicap committee
 That was in the good old days wher kicking against your handicap was con sidered as legitimate an amusement a: kicking against taxes, the gas bill ant l the decision of the umpire. Now, how ever. when we regulate our lives accord | ----- - ------------------------