New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-08-07

hesltated moment about committing har. -
on every last one Of EN-. Course it was ,l.,
that they were just overflow from so,,e -
party that was going on at the club. b,,, {.
aglne using the green for a parking aren't
Il went back to my ball, and If do .,.
as shouldn't, | made one beautiful apnyrs..
/ sailed her smack through the back v;nss4
of a limousine caromed off a cut glass -
holder and popped out the side windov 49,.
feet from the pin. And / holed out. too MIA
my niblick at the expense Of one set ofsp.s
ard nudgards and the windshield of noas.
sedan. 1t cost me an for the hole ana
was mad clear through
But that wasn't ALL
After the Doc had lodged through the ~.
linlinary skirmish line of an impending d;n
nerdance and had showered in spite ~
few college cut-ups in open-face clothes NH
were cluttering up the locker room h.
climbed up on an isolated corner of the s;do
veranda to smoke his pipe and wait for n.
taxi he'd 'phoned for to take him back to j.
station. He hadn't been there more tbon
two minutes before he heard a grouu ~
hysterical women holding heated conference
near by with the club steward
Cant you have that workman shooed "a
the porch?" he overheard one of the woms,
demand in a peremptory tone.
Yeah" said the Doc, trying to smile h,,
not even working his face up to decent Grin
"the workman was me. In a perfectly 20.
spectful golf suit was out of place at oil.
club. | took one jump off that porch and
right there I quit golf for good.
"You may think I'm doddering old foo,
to let one fussy female with sharp tonpue
prejudice me against the whole game of golf
I'll admit would be if 7 did But that re-
mark was just symptom of general state
Of affairs that has gradually grown In.
tolerable. I've been thinking about the th;ng
for weeks. America is taking her roIs
strenuously enough, but she's taking il II
wrong.
Look how we came out across the water
this spring. We send over the best we've
got, in numbers great enough to win half
dozen championships. We press agent 'em
IN the papers, boast about 'em openly and
give England the idea that it is merely mat.
ter of which of the Americans is to bring
home the trophy in each event. And the only
American who turns the trick is Scotchman
brought up on the st. Andrews course.
Gosh, it makes me writhe with shams 20
think of it. We've got golf courses enough
in this country to cover England from end to
end. We've got more players, more profes-
SIGNALS and more money invested in the game
than all the rest of the countries Of the world
put together. And where do we stand in in.
ternational golf? Well, perhaps not at the
bottom, but long ways from UP where we
ought to be.
"And what's the answer? Golf in America
is almost exclusively game for the well-to-do
middle-aged.
THE amateur champion of Great Britain is
postal clerk. III wager that the average let
tercarrler IN this country never saw golf
course unless he happened to stray in by pair
OF stone pillars without noticing the For Men,
bers Only sign.
In England they have whole class of play
ers called mechanic golfers The only me
chanlcs we have who know the difference be-
tween croquet ground and golf course are
few privileged individuals who dress up in
chauffeurs' togs and are permitted to doze be-
mind the wheel Of limousine while the old
man who foots the bills totters round the links.
on know me we'll enough to realize that
ia be the last man to propose barring white
Ears from participating in the grand old
game But do believe that youth should be
given chance. The average young man q few
years out of college has to choose between get
ting married and raising a family and joining
a golf club. The bulk of our golfers take up
the game after they have passed forty, and
their muscles are too soft to be of any real use.
And yet we wonder why we have one Bobby
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