Evening star., 1921-08-28

from the gallery filing Eddie's ears.
He began grin, but his lips stiff
fened., The ball seemed to be de-
flected, at the top Of his trajectory.
as IL 1t had found some invisible OBJ
stacle. 1t sliced sharply and dis
appeared over the shaggy rim Of the
pit
Eddie Penfold quite suddenly heard
thought. as he took the desolate path
| to the left of the pond. aware that the
spectators followed Tregler around
the opposite bank. This was what
made it a mans game-.a fight, in
He whistled softly between his teeth.
| and scrambled down to the sand.
The ball had struck the near bank
| and lay as benevolently as the situa-
ton allowed. well back from the sin
pit Eddie studied it briefly. He was
a full brassey from the green. It was
| sheer folly to attempt anything but
a sure escape on this shot. But he
shook his head. reaching his club up
| to his caddy.
"I'n play the heavy mashie, Lath-
| am" This was fun. anyway-win or
| lose or draw. He whistled softly as
he took his stance, utterly happy.
From where he stood he could follow
preston of the caddie's eyes, but he
knew that he had brought it off,
\ some out. Mistuh Penfor" The
boy boy = pointed "Jes shoht o. de secon'
Tregler changed clubs. handing a
change for an iron. Eddie smiled
family. Tregler wouldn't take any
chances now. He watched the fight
of the ball approvingly. It car
ried the trap. caught a favoring slope
and bounded merrily toward the
I ri or n
change his mind. He saw the white
| dot pause and stop, three or four
! yards short of the sand. sure four
for Tregler. The hole and the match
\ bali. whistling still. still unreason-
! ingly contented. He felt his club bite
cleanly into the thin turf. saw the
| ball rise. spinning. and curve DOWN
| ward again.
| He saw it stop. two feet, perhaps.
! fold now. The half and chance for
Golf! That was all-the everlasting
unless. the certainty that nothing was
| certain. the necessity of overcoming
! ones own weakness. of surprising an
| like a faithless ally, favoring first
| one and then. without warning, the
| other. Tregler. unperturbed. deliber-
ate. was sighting the line of his putt
|
invisible waver as the club-head came
| back, saw the ball straggle miserably
| to the edge of the green and stop
Tregler grinned. shook his head.
! putted again. missing by inches. Ed
die tapped his ball lightly for the win.
| He was the one down. now. with two
| to play, against one Of the steadiest
golfers in the country, but an abso-
lutte conviction of victory was upon
| him as he drove to the short seven-
foyo ~ Il~~~ =
| beset with hungry traps. The match
| was already over in his mind. He had
| won it when he stood in the pit be-
fore the sixteenth. He stepped aside
| and watched. Tregler bettered his
drive wit1out emotion. On the green
The ball seemed to chackle as it
dropped for his two. Tregler, de-
liberate and cautious. missed again
| and the match was square. The
| eighteenth was Eddie's from drive to
cup.
II was praying you'd stay out of
| trouble" said Tregler. IT sort of
knew I was licked when you sliced
at the sixteenth" He grinned
!EDDIE suddenly remembered what he
had been playing for. He looked
for the one face he wanted to see.
! Winifred Kendrick stood noticeably
clear Of the group, as if to emphasize
her participation in its enthusiasm,
! but he read a new meaning in her
glance. 1t brought him to her quickly.
question.
| MANY congratulations"
"1s that all you've got to sayo" he de-
manded almost roughly. Didn't YOU
( She was suddenly very grave. 81 saw
one thing very clearly. l saw that it's
even more of pity than I thought
/ this golf habit of yours. I saw that if
you cared for something worth doing
you'd do 1t as you played just now"
',But golf-the game-never mind me.
Didn't you get any of the-the grip in
it? Does it still look as silly as-as
croquet?'
81 don't know about the comparison.
1t seems dreadful waste. that's all. A
Look here They were walking,
very slowly toward the clubhouse.
You evidently think there's something
In me. Well. if there is, golf put it
there. School and college and business
| all about. l wasn't fully alive except
| when 1 was out on the course-it's made
me whatever l am. And If that's not
all useless. give golf the credit for 1t,
anyway"
She stopped short. studying him in
f; tently.
II wonder" He saw her face brighten.
! Perhaps you're right about that. It's
formed you, Wen admit. It's been your
school. Well, isn't your education ever
| going to be finished?"
| II don't get that" He scowled.
! 81 meant that IL Dlaytnr oolf opJ,,
fitted you to play more golf, 1t didn't
seem a very effectual training. But if
it taught you something else, of
/ course-'
j "It teaches you a little bit of every
thing" he declared. "It-well, just one
thing it does is to show up gutter.
! tt"
! 81 saw that" She nodded soberly.
| ''But If you never use the qualities it
gives you for anything except a game
if you never do anything worth
! doing"
/; Business again. He spread his
hands. IA good golfer would be a good
business man or good anything else.
| five times out Of seven. The reason
don't live behind desk is simply that
don't have to. I don't need the
J money
shook her head. "Don't YOU ever think
of the fun of 1.-THE fight-the strug-
gle-the doubt? And doesn't every
honest business accomplish something.
| too-leave the world better?"
| "Fun"' He laughed. mo. I never
any fight or doubt. either. It's just sit
! ting still and watching money pile up.
! AS for making the world better, I don't
seem to thrill at the idea of doing that
with Penfold carburetors, exactly"
| They reached the veranda. People
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