The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-10-03

as they sett out of sight of the com mentors, after they had swung violently la atssa ball and merely spilled it off the tee. It isn't what the spectators said, player thinks they said that ruins the rest of the day and most of the rest of the month for him.
 have seen patient. quiet men, who
 wouldn't lose their self possession in a shipwreck or harber malice at dog who
 had bitten them. throw their clubs on the ground and jump on them till every last club in the bag had been broken to slivers.
 And all because they had driven a ball at right angles instead of straight ahead, and lost 1t forever and ever
 Without an audience these things would not be disturbing. But the most
 brazenA human being is sensitive before crowd as a child speaking it's first
 piece. And the man that plans the golf course knows that and takes a fiendish delight in arranging things so the audience will be provided.
 After you have rolled the ball around
 the corner and away from the club house you begin to feel a little easier. Tha, 1 is part of the designers nlan Ijs l makes the next few fairways wide and the hazards easy If he didn't you | would quit right ttere and the ancient game Of golf would be played only by professionals.
 You make the next two or three with score that is fairly satisfactory |, yourself and the wounds to vour nride inflicted at the start begin to heal Then you come to another mental baz. ard It may be a bunker that is ctln. ningly placed so you can't possibly drive over it and so you are pretty certain
 10 land the ball exactly in the trench in front of it..
 That is all prearranged, too. The man l who laid out the course knows that you can't help trying to get over ths bunker even when you know you cant do it. This insures your getting ths pail into the trench, instead of lanain . It half way out. where it could he | pitched over to the next shot. You can say to yourself a hundred
 times that you will drive lightly so 1 as to be in strategic position to gel over on the next. But you won't do ,t You will slam with all your n,isbt L '.
 SIX or seven vicious w2llops will he | required to get you over
 Again the hazard may be one of tbos, 1 exasperating stretches of rouab t,,,, l must be driven over if the ball is to ra. main findable ' eo re 1 You could drive twice the distance o,
 d Iair green But you keep tbtnkin,
 apout iosing the ball in the long sras,
 or Drush. picturing yourself and tbe
 nIo' nun.ing Tor it while the othei
 piayers wait patiently or peer at vo,,
 And in it goes.< you l And then. provided you find if in. | 9ssau or dropping another ball an,
 'ahing the penalty, you insist on fry. l ing to get 1t out, and that counts ejah. CT ten more. for it always drons in.s
 pocket under a hummock of grass n,
 ciump of brush. The pockets oI 1 course, are put there for it to ron ir+, ] by the time you are out of this sac. chd hazard you are in no condition fo,
 the sand trap and the water iumn tha' VII folioW along in due course. 1 1ou merely lam blindIy trying to ga,
 them and lose ball after ball iy the attempt IA l Even that would be endurable if ,,o, were not so constituted tbat vol,
 10 try It all over again the next d5v, | Tlc next day you do pretty well aul 1 that encourages you to third af 1 tempt 'iiiiu ae- l It is then that you take the elnhs 1 one oy one and break them over voIn l Knee, meanwhile making. observation. 1 which imperil your future. but you go at it again with a set n,
 rev clubs and do 1t all over again and 1 stii over. For the whole game k : l liental hazard and the men who in. vented 1t knew il.
 Ihey will have a good deal to an I swer for in the future We devo,tf. | hope that as penalty they arc foroa 10 spend an eternity among the ment,l
 hazards they so diabolically desiened l for others 'is 'ieu
 'oopyrisnt, 1920. by The Bell Syndi
 cate Inc)