Evening star., 1925-06-29


1t isn't slang at all, you see. |
here comes the four of US 1t carr
body get out of the way and give u
in fours on golf course. 1t seems
Golf is lovely game, once you get
started. But there appears to be some
little difficulty about getting started.
trouble hitting the ball. but l had
hectic time finding it after it was hit.
Hitting it and hitting it where you
want it to go are two entirely different
things. 1 find.
. or course, didn't always hit it the
first time I aimed at it-not as a gen.
eral thing. But the men played with
were very polite, and let me have an
other turn every time l missed.
They gave me four or five sticks to
see why. for they all looked just alike.
except that one had a wooden piece on
the end and the others had some sort
of metal.
I1cT SIuUS .NidOe OI lNdu.
One man referred to his as "brassy,"
and another called his an iron so
I gathered that they make them out
handy. I think mine must have been
lead. as they were very heavy. Fortu
nately | did not have to carry them
all at once. however.
There was little boy named
''Caddy' something or other who car
ried my bag all over the place for me,
and it helped a lot. except for one
different stick every time 1 went to
hit the ball. I liked him to do the
carrying, but I think I could have
done without so much variety In
sticks. I would just begin TO get used
to one stick when this youngster
would step up and say, Jaw. use this
one. lady"
He was nice child, though a trifie
dirty as to hands and face. and didn't
like to be unaccommodat ting. so 7
usually did what he asked. but it
threw me off my game considerably,
am sure.
Why, in tennis I would no more
think of changing rackets that way
than of flying to the moon. 1t would
simply ruin my strokes,
Not That Kind Of Tea.
notice that they do lot of talking
about tea in golf, but they never pro-
duce the goods at all.
l arrived and departed from nine
teas" during our round yesterday and
was as dry as a bone when we fin
ished. My hopes were raised on the
fifth hole, when one man asked me if
I could use little ready tea" Could
use it? My throat was nearly
parched
But I soon discovered that his re-
mark had nothing to do with liquid
refreshments at all. II was merely
some more golf talk. What he offered
me was a reddish bit of wood which
he stuck in the ground to balance my
ball on top of, instead of the little
sand piles 1 had been using.
l was very much disappointed, as /
was dreadfully thirsty. Besides, I en-
and never would have changed If l
had known what he was talking about.
They use some awfully queer terms
in that game of golf. Some of them
sound like f street 'mashies,"
"roughs," "birdies,' and all that sort
of thing, you know. l never did catch
on TO what it was all about.
What She Went Around In.
game yesterday man asked me the
queerest question. He said: What did
you go around it in?'
/ hate sarcasm, so I told him po-
litely that l went around it in just
what 1 had on.
Fancy asking that, when I was
miles from home and couldn't have
changed my clothes If I had wanted
to. And, besides. there is no place
provided on a golf course for a change
of costume. It Is just an open stretch
of ground without signs Of habitation
of any sort.
But perhaps he didn't understand
about golf courses. I didn't myself at
one time.
There was one thing about that
links we played on yesterday that is
beyond my comprehension, even now.
1t was a beautiful spot owned by a
we'll known country club, so there
really didn't seem to be any excuse
for it all. but. do you know. the course
was most frightfully neglected.. There
middle of the links. to say nothing
of rocks and holes-regular gullies,
mind you!
Grass Cutters Are Careless.
And, worst Of all, the grass was cut
III SnoCklHSly CdfeleS FASHION. laere
we're several beautifully kept stretches
of lawn and right beside them, where
the men who NOV the lawn could not
have helped but to see them. were
stretches of overgrowth and weeds
that would have disagraced a back
yard-much less country club green.
1t reminded me of the job a small boy
makes when washing his face.
l am convinced that the condition
of the course had lot to do with my
trouble in getting started. 1t made
things so much more difficult, you
know. 1 would be going along beau
tifully. then all at once that stupid
ball of mine would land right in the
middle of sand pile presumably left
- THEFT