Show NO GAI calill ae gulf requires endurance and any novice will V 11 acu you so the idea of golf that is prevail among ong most devotees of f boolba bot bal 1 l ba ball and other rougher is that th the e game is a cross between addle ik de winks and croquet a sort of glorified baby with the most amusin amusing 11 feature of baby left lef t out there is one old football man in this city who ho hew think so now although he did once the gentleman in question is an old harvard football man he is a grent great admirer of the manlier athletic garries games ind he held up his nose nose at golf as a man naturally would who thou thought ht it a gail game e for or wo women inen aud and W willies ll 11 es but not for n men en bece recently antly while on a visit to new york a friend persuaded him to visit ith the morristown golf links and finally to take a stick in the garne game herc is what the football man told tobi a reporter of his adventures my friend introduced me to the men who were to be my opponents all of them had on golf suits and most 0 of them had single eyeglasses in their eyes I 1 knew that they ther were willies the minute I 1 C beet et my eyes on them and I 1 r was ras as mighty cool in consequence b because e I 1 dont like willies the go game me was explained to me as consisting in batting a ball into a couple of dozer small rma I 1 holes with the least number numb 01 I 1 strokes possible I 1 made the first hole holc till aill right with no more strokes than most of the men playing antl annu I 1 looked around for the next it was farther off than the first and the fourth anil d fiat were still farther apart I 1 began t i I 1 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 com companions ni s and they were strolling af afterheid after ter heir balls apparently as I 1 I 1 fresh as when they started I 1 followed it was necessary to set my teeth and use all my determination to keep up tip with them but I 1 did and I 1 finally completed the first round xo one knows how many strokes I 1 marle considerably more inore than have everdeen 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 eyvind my wind vind while I 1 was still there wheezing like a t rusty pump one of the willies whom I 1 despise any more 1 I was too tired to despise anyone strolled up to me with 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 yon like to come along 1 I told him that I 1 had an important business engagement that would prevent me much as I 1 would like to do so and I 1 dragged my iny weary legs olt off those links jinks and if anyone tells you that golf is a williel garne game just refer him to me because I 1 know ekno v that it detroit free |