Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1920-09-03
GOLF VS.. BASEBALL
Secretary Warner Says There ls
Growing Interest In GoIf--crleket
Losing 6round--Formcr Gov
ernor stuart Tells a Good
One on Himself
By GEORGE NOX MCCAIN
ENRANCIS b. WARNER, secretary and
" treasurer of the Philadelnhia Golf Asso

ny uEUftUE NUN MCCAtN
LNRANCIS b. WARNER, secretary and
L treasurer of the Philadelphia Golf Asso.
citation, Is an enthusiast in that sport.
He played his first game this year about
four weeks ago; which fact requires ex-
PLANTATION.
Mr.. Warmers higher interest takes the
shape of working for the other fellows to the
attends to the business while the other
fellows attend to the balls and brassies and
such like matters.
That is why he occupies. and has held.
his responsible official position in the Golf
Association for years.
As recognized authority on the subject
he assures me that golf as an outdoor recrea-
tion is making remarkable strides in popu !,
larity. People are taking It up now that
never dreamed of doing 80 before.
Mr.. Warner is, still further Of. the opinion,
that golf Is gradually supplanting baseball
in the affections of fans" Of mature years.
This is particularly true of baseball ad;
mirers who have arrived at the sober ana
equity years of life, when a cramped seat on
the bleachers, or in the grand stand, carries
its own penalty of aching bones.
ITO men who love the out of doors there 10
more fun in getting into the open and knock
ing ball around than there Is in sitting
in grand stand watching some one else
pound baseball over the field" sapiently
declares Mr.. Warner.
ITS a transferred enthusiasm the fun Of
being able to do something yourself that you
have watched and envied some one else
doing"
MIR. WARNER has been member Of
A'A the Philadelphia Cricket Club for
years. HeTeluctantly confesses that cricket
is also yielding to the lure of golf among
the former devotees of the English national
game.
There's not as much cricket played
around Philadelphia as formerly" he asserts.
1T is, think, for the reason that its ad-
and going In for golf"
Mr.. Warmers observations may strike
counter opinion among baseball fans of the
younger breed. To them, thousands and
tens Of thousands. baseball is pre- eminently
the sport of all time, golf, football and Olym-
pic games to the contrary notwithstanding.
Golf is an individual game, demanding
individual effort. 1t Is a sport not neces-
Sarily dependent upon the corporation of
others.
Another drawback to the greater popu-
larity of ''gloriied shiny" as some one
has called It, has been the lack of oppor-
tunity for the many to indulge in the sport.
Not every man or woman can join a golf
club.
Now that public golf course has been
opened by the city in Cobbs Creek Park its
growth will doubtless be more rapid.
But as for the younger crowd in the matter
of baseball?
Oh, boy!
ENORMER GOVERNOR EDWIN S.
STUART belongs to that keenly appre-
ciative class of the genus homo that does
not scorn to laugh at its own expense.
As a target of choice rcpartee he can ap-
preciate the dart and smile at the directness
Of it's aim.
Discussing politics with friend of Irish
Inn he ri Il tIn
teurish qualities of certain political cam
paign managers, past and present
He had reference to those whose failure
to anticipate crisis. or by Grass ignorance
Of sound political principles contribute to
the defeat of their candidate.
'Why.' said the Governor, eve known
some fellows who had no more idea how
to manage political campaign than | had
myself"
"Well. Governor" replied his Mlesian
friend commiseratingly, that's certainly
getting 'em down to a pretty low level"
TT ANY particular citizen of Philadel-
1 phia thinks that a new spirit OF re-
Sponsibility and progress is not actuating
certain members of City Council he has
another and more correct thought due about
this time.
Three weeks ago Councilman W. w.
Roper. of Germantown, started off with the
idea Of taking "A months vacation. lie was
up in Canada when he learned that meet
ing of Council was to be held for which
display of political pyrotechnics and chro-
matte oratory was scheduled.
Councilmen in these days no longer travel
on their nerve and n railroad pass. Jegis-
lative action has put the kibosh on one. and
an awakened sense of public responsibility
has lassoed the other.
1t costs money now for even a council
man to travel
AS a consequence. when Mr. Roper hked
back to Philadelphia to do his bit at the
recent meeting of Council the trip put a
kink in his bankroI.
After the councimanic fracas on the
Hazett appropriation of $500 in which
the governing body handed Mayor Moore a
love tap was over. the gentleman from Ger
lnantown repacked his pajamas, busted his
brogans and started back to where he had
deserted the trail in Canada.
odd stories crop up in the corridors of
" City Hall The latest relates to an
efficient technical employo who
about twice year gets into the bad lands
for two or three days. Oddly enough. his
nionship with the flowing bowl renders
him, for few days ensuing, rcsentful rather
than remorsetul.
After one OF his recent expeditions his
kind hearted chief took him to task and
pointed out the folly of his somioccasiona
variations from the path of rPctitude lie
instanced the case of men who had risen
to high position by sobriety and strict at
tention to business, among others Mayor
Moore and Governor SprOul.
Resentful of the reproof. the orring one
pointing nervous finger at the other, re-
Now, Joe, I've heard enough of that.
know as much as Hamp Moore or Bill
Sproul ever did-only ! can't just think