The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-04-09
Improvements at Last

Improvements at Last
HOWEVER. Mr. Costello has his ethics and he
Il l. went to work at once His colleague the private
tutor, would stand by their employer swung and
the great specialist Oged his stroke with an expert
eye. Then Mr.. Costello would tell the great man to
contract his neck slightly turn his right hand
under and the private instructor would make a
memorandum in his little book
In the evening they would meet and hold grave
consultations on the state of the patient.
The victim began to show improvement at
and though he suffered two three alarming re-
lapseS during the two weeks at the end of that
time he pronounced cured. In one of these
sudden turns for the worse the rich man knocked
two balls into muddy lagoon and, turning to
the golf DOCTORS complained qureulously What die
you let do that for? Those balls cost rs cents
apiece"
That was another curious phase of the golf OBJ
secession among the addicts. Tex Richard said he
would rather find ball in the rough lost by
some one else, than a $40 bill on the street, and
man playing the Biltmore course at Miami walked
into water hazard up to his neck trying to recover
a ball which already had been played for nine holes.
Back to 100
MIR. COSTELLO is unable to assure me that the
1V1 rich citizens who paid various experts from
81 900 to $4,000 for reducing their scores from 100
to 90 or from 80 to 80, did not backslide later on
Usually the contract required that the pupil should
shoot the stimpulated at least three times.
But after that it up to him and further case
histories of such subjects probably would show
that thew presently fell into their old faults and be-
came the dubs that nature and perhaps providence
intended them to be.
Golf was a grim game to the successful business
in the goofy He accumulated a great lot
of expensive trash in his locker at the club and his
catch-all closet at home, all of it purchased in sim
pie hope and abandoned in slow despair He
almost willing to believe that even the cut of his
boomers could have some effect his stroke He
persuaded himself that the golf course was a great
place to talk business because golf was so hunanz-
ing and then went out and hammered his golf ball
all the path that the only moments when
he found himself within hailng distance of the
other when they teed off and again
the green.
And at those moments they both too intent
on golf to discuss anything else. After that there
was the nineteenth hole, but they probably got
tight there and sang Sweet Adeline"
There was type of golf pupil who might be
described mental case His trouble was in his
mind, not in his stroke. For such as that Mr.
Costello sometimes used PHYSIOLOGY He would
hand the afflicted box of new balls and tell
him these balls had been doped by secret process
and would fly straighter and fifty yards farther
Sometimes it worked.
The golfers wearing plain Stacks and plain
short socks now. Their shirts just white and
their sweaters of solid color and not pale blue
either I do not believe our captains and pillars
have given up golf but they are not paying from
1000 to $1,000 any more to have their scores re-
duced ten strokes
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