Show q 1 f THE TH E DEMOCRACY OF SPORT J John Hays flays Ua Hammond has bas always atwan j I teen been known as a man of nerve but he be hei bei i i 1 i proved It in a superlative decree deg on W Wednesday when ben with his partner he be beI I had the temerIty to tG beat Mat the Ute president t in a golf bOlf foursome Also he be proved the i i of the real American ad and i his lack Jaek or of awe a we for title and place In Ini InI i 4 H I Germany German for Instance it is a tOur I I 11 H man who 00 would think of beating f 1 the tile kaiser kat el in a boat Jacv or outshoot 4 I ing tag him fin n a III lInt hunt And no real aI I diplo diplomat f mat would think for an stant of let letting I ting Ung the king of England lose IoIe to him at 1 1 any an sport on the list listi i H I From what is known of Gf the presidents ift I dents s game however it may haw have been n 1 I t impossible for the tbt other fellows to t lose without making it too palpable a de default d deO fault According to tt t his own IOwn s n or ir r Mr Ir 1 o c I t J J v vr r Tait Tatt bei in tn the tile duffer durler class with a I medal score for eighteen holes hole ranging around and from that on up Mr Ir Hammond on the other hand is said to tobe tobe tobe be quite a neat player He weigh half as much as the chief executive tin tive he t anything like the big bigman mans man but he keeps his eye ee on onte te ban ball bait lets leta his go through and has bas the engineers engineer faculty acuity of oC precision and aad good judgment of distance Foolish folk make fun of golf because they have no conception of or Its demands on the nerves neres the eye and the tile muscles I but these ue who ho have caught the golf germ lenD know that it Is a good deal like Uk II the th game FUne of life Ufe Size Sire and weight cut cutno no figure brilliancy wins of os occasionally occa I but in the long run ron it loses to the th me methodical meI careful campaign capal of the tile man I who plays every ever stroke as al if the whole I gine depended upon It Victory moans means long hard bani patient preparation and sand flack Buck of it all an has MS to be a heart that will stand any an sort of fate tate without flinching Some of the great victories in golf If have been won W ft by sheer nerve and a III refusal to tG accept defeat until the thelast thelast thelast last stroke was played We Va suspect u that Mr Ir Hammond Is one of the golfers who win on their coolness es 8 and persistence ee quite as much as on their form As Aa a mining engineer he be bebas has bas looked danger daR er In the face innumerable Innumerable Innumerable I able times and once onee Oom Paul gave 1 him a glimpse of ot the gallows at short range ran When a man has seen that sort of trial a little thing like a sand bunker or I a sliced iced drive into the rough Is no particular excuse for giving up Also Alsor Mr r Hammonds reason rs n for refusing the mission mINIon to China Is IB now now he be an ambassador that far from home and find had time or 01 opportunity for golf which would bo be b ample cause lotS for declining anything short of a pass pallS passport passport port to Paradise |