The Washington times., 1921-04-01

So many men, so many minds. One
mans meat is another mans poison.
But the question Is this:
Is baseball or golf the national
pastime of these United States of
ours? That is to say. the interroga-
tion is, whether the Louisville Slug
ger or Maple Mashie rules supreme
as the official bludgeon of American
81 ortdom.
Some say baseball and some say
golf. Meanwhile the amicable con-
troversy waxeth warm. Says the
devotee of baseball to the golfng
fiend: For those who like that sort
of thing, II is just the sort of thing
they like" to which the proponent
of puts and drives replies. You'll
know better when you grow up"
And so II goes from day to day,
with the enthusiasts over the two
different games pulling wider and
wider apart
OPINION OF MAJOR II. ROBB.
short of the argument. For instance,
Maj. II. Robb, 14l3 + street north
west favors the sporting editor with
the following in support Of golf:
after over thirty years of baseball,
must say that golf has a bug whose
bite is SO potent that when once bit
ten, no power on earth can save the
sufferer from stealing both time and
everything, in order that he may
have a round or so of eighteen holes
and falling that. even three.
Baseball is watched by millions and
the golfers poor drive is caused by
those million eyes watching too 81 Sc
ly, taking his mind off that little ball.
n N fttp m fa1x iS IrtN m n
never seen by anyone but himself. In
former years | spent as much time
and money as ! could scrape together
trying to see all the ball games
could, now | spend little time and
much money trying to work golf. One
OF the greatest differences IN The two
pastimes IL, the baseball player plays
at his game and the golfer works at
his. l don't remember the time from
my infancy that l c1u.d not catch.
play two nockers one, cr bat out flys,
and what the infant learns in ms
youth is evermore with hin. Now the
golfer more or less waits until he is
grown and then only takes up the
game with so much hesitancy that
1t is painful, yet as has been said be-
fore, his first good drive or putt sets
him afire with a blaze of ambition.
PUTS YOU OUT OF GAME.
Baseball if it breaks a finger
puts you out of the game for a while.
anyway. and often broken nose
causes poor vision, and for a time re-
strains the players activities during
his convalescence, yet after the golf
bug has used his fangs and the poor
boob is inoculated, namely after one
of those little good drives, 1T takes a
major operation, with several cans of
sleep potion, to put him out for even
few minutes. Even in my slight ex-
perience / have seen a man swing
so hard at the poor atmosphere, hit
ting himself a blow on the rebound or
shin, with enough force to fell the
usual OK. and go on working same as
ever. True, he usually emits a few
words, but only sucn as you may hear
in any one of our churches at most
any service.
Baseball Is only fair weather
sport. but golf is a regular week day
or Sunday sport, rain or shine, fair
or foul with light as the only limi-
tation, and many a putting contest is
played by moonlight.
HAS WIDE SELECTION OF BALLS.
again the baseball player knows
only one ball, the oid-fashioned dollar
an6 n quarter, but the golfer has n