San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-10-07


~ This proposed law was killed in
committee owing to personal animals
though L proved that not one school
in the entire state had a course IN
ball marking or bag carrying or any
thing else that would tend to Increase
the efficiency Of caddy in his chosen
profession. so.
No Help to Caddies.
All they attempt to learn these boys
is junk like reading, spelling. algebra
and etc. which a caddy amt got no
use for and they don't differentiate be-
tween a boy that is going to be a
caddy and a boy that is going to be Il
osteopath but they make them ali take
the same course Of study irregard-
less.
But as l say, the proposed law
never came to q vote and the prob
lem still looms as big as ever in n.
y. state though it has been solved to
nicely in other places as will now
tell you about same.
Well the pioneers in the solution of
the problem was the continent of
Africa where golf has become a posi-
tive mania and outrage in the last >
va JIG. II uupptutu out sept. udt
couple yrs. ago that two men that
did not know the meaning of the word
work wished to play off tournament
match in the middle of the wk. but
was informed by the caddy master
that all the boys was in school and it
looked like they would half to eitner
carry there own clubs or wait till
Saturday =. NJ.
They could not wait and play Sat
urday z. NJ. as the both of them Was
oboe players in the Nile Valley brass
band which had signed up to play n
concert at the Rotary Clubs Saturday
outing just outside Cairo. On tn,
other hand, the thought Of carrying
there own clubs made both men feel
faint, and what to do was the next
question. All of sudden a idear
came to one of the men who we will
call Barger. This Barger was a great
collector of CRATES and at the time
they was no lest than &c giraffes in
his menage. He sent his Cooley bacL
to his hotel with instructions to re-
turn at once with likely looking
giraffes. In the mean vile him and
his Opt. painted there golf balls dull
kred TO resemble lurga eggs of which
CRATES is very fond.
Go After the Balls.
When the Q CRATES arrived on the
seen the 2 golf bags was hung on each
of there necks and the golfers pro.
| ceeded to drive off. The 2 giraffes,
thinking the balls was lurga eggs
went after them hot #. and tried to
pick them up but. maybe l forgot
TO mention that Barger had took the
precaution to muzzle both beasts so as
all the giraffes could do was just nose
the golf balls but could not piek
4 them 1o.
When the players came up to the
balls they forced the 2 CRATES by
subterfSge to step back, then picked
out the clubs they wanted to use next
and made there second shots which
was promptly pursued by the giraffe'
and so on all around the course.
Vile Mr.. Barger and his Opt. wa;
enjoying snifter at the 10Th hole
| they unmuzzled there caddies and gave
them couple of real lurga eggs which
seemed to satisfy them. ASH result
of Mr., Barger's scheme, CRATES i:
now being used as caddies all over
Africa and in some countries is even
employed as direction flags. Hyenas
another animal which is fond of lurgs
legs. has also been tried out as cad
hcaddies but are too much like hu
man caddies as they keep laughing a
you.
In Minnesota suitable substitute
for human caddies has been found il
the person of gophers. To Ut them t'
work properly it is necessary to pain
the golf balls black so as TO look like
all day suckers which gophers is no
toriously wild about. The golf bag ]