Show NO WILLIES GAME and any novice will you so the idea of golf that is among most devotees of football base ball and other rougher sports is thu the game is a cross between tiddle de winks and croquet a sort of g baby with the most amusing feature of baby left out there is one old football man in this city who think so now although he did once the gentleman in question is an old harvard football man he is a great of the manlier athletic games and he held up his nose at golf as a man naturally would who thought it a game for women and willies bul not for men recently while on a visit to new york a friend persuaded him to visit the morristown golf links and finally to take a stick in the game here is what the football man told a reporter of his ad ventures my friend introduced me to the men who were to be my opponents all of them had on golf g olf suits and most of them had single eyeglasses in their eyes I 1 that they were willies the minute I 1 ket my eyes on them and I 1 was mighty cool in consequence because I 1 dont like willies the game was explained to me as consisting in batting 0 ball into a couple of dozen small holes with the least number of strokes possible I 1 made the first hole all right with no more strokes than most of the men playing and I 1 looked around for the next it was farther oi than the first and the fourth and fifth were still farther apart I 1 began to grow tired and by the time that the sixth hole was reached I 1 was puffing and blowing like a porpoise I 1 looked for my companions and they strolling after their balls apparently as fresh as when they started I 1 followed it was necessary to set my teeth and use all my determination to keep up cihi them but I 1 did and I 1 finally completed the findt round no one knows how many strokes I 1 made considerably more than have ever been made on those links before at any rate all that I 1 could do was to sink down on a rock completely exhausted and endeavor to get my wind while I 1 was still there wheezing liken rusty pump one of the willies whom I 1 despise any more I 1 was too tired to despise anyone up to me a pronounced english accent that would have caused a riot on the strand and said 1 I say old chappy were goin ovah the blasted links again you like to come along 1 I told him that I 1 had an important business that vent me much as I 1 would like to do so and I 1 dragged my weary legs oly those links and if anyone tells you that golf is ja willie game just refer him to me because I 1 know that it detroit free press |