The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-27
ON SECOND THOUGHT
BY JAY 3. HOUSE. a
tFrOn PhiiadelpAia PubIie Lsdess.D

tFron PhiladelpAia Public Lsdese)
"Are you not rushing in without
due thought and certainly without
much knowledge and experience?"
contectures Old Art Crabb lust
where out of your vast fund of ex-
perience would you draw the line be-
tween a golf course consisting of abb
solutely level sward without brook or
bush or bunker and a. course, say,
twice as difficult as Pine Valley?
Sporty means nothing to well-in-
formed golfer. 1t is used for adver-
Using purposes by summer hotels with
rotten nine-hole golf course. Traps
and bunkers are placed with more
than the idea of giving the over
ninety men a series of niblick shots
from heel prints in the sand. They
add to the beauty of the course; 4hey
make for interesting shots; they in
crease the skill Of the player they
actually decrease the scores Of poor
and mediocre players 1t has been
proved that over ninety men prefer
a well-trapped course to an under
trapped course"
We love Old Arts assumption that
we are without knowledge and expert
ence. 1t is SO characteristic of the
man who, because he shoots some
things approximating par golf, thinks
he owns the game We've played golf
ten years on many courses. wv @ Inlnk
what we think and nobody is going 10
cow US into submission or silence by
an assumption of superiority. That's
the trouble with the average golfer;
he's cowed.
Nobody wants golf course with
out brook or bush or bunker. That IS
an assumption so ridiculous as to
make controversy about it unneces-
sary. That to which a great majority
of golfers object, aItho most of them
are afraid to say so, is the desecra-
ton of Gods outdoors which has been
achieved, or is under way in pretty
nearly every golf club n the country.
1t may be that foyer ninety" golfers
prefer a well-trapped course; but the
assertion is purely speculative. No
cover ninety" golfer was ever con-
suited on considered in Anything per-
tanning to the course over which he
plays and which he supports. All he
is asked to do is to insert a generous
hand in the pocket of his trousers.
The objecA of this controversy. we
shall add, is to take the game away
from those who are using it as per-
sonal propaganda and give it back to
those who pay Tor it. If the poor,
scared fish will stand fast Wen get it
for them.
Meanwhile. we leave it to you to say
whether we have started another
grand row.
This Made the Day for Us.
Sir-You, no doubt, will be sur
prised to get a letter from me under
a Washington date line. have been
here for the last month and will be
here, perhaps, till the first of the year.
Bob NJ. is here with me and we
have set our hearts on attending the
Army and Navy game in your city.
The senator had promised the tickets
he had before he knew we wanted
to go.
two tickets for US? OF course, don't
v ant to buy box, but am willing to
pay a reasonable price. I don't want
to have you eTnbarrasS yourself in any
way, but If there are tickets available
in Philadelphia, We would be glad to
have them.
Kindly advise me by return mail
and if any are available should like
to get them. However, if you can't
shall ask the congressional delegation
today. w. r. S.
We deeply. appreciate the implied
and shall write to w. R. S.
thanking him for it So long as there
are people who think we can get
tickets to the Army-Navy game life
will be worth living
The question as to who should run |
for vice president on the ticket with |
Sam Blythe came up at staff meeting |
yesterday. Doubtless. it has been dis
cussed in other quarters. We'll, we did I
say, along in 1918 or 1919, that we'd
never run for office again. But what |
we meant by that was that we'd |
never seek another office. We said
nothing about getting out OF the way |
Of one.
Almost anything is possible in poll /
tics. We didn't think, after he wrote
the --blurb" about Walter Roscoe
Stubs in 1910, we could ever be for
Sam Blythe for anything. And here /
We are rnnniner him for nr.asfdanfI