Salt Lake Telegram | 1915-07-18 | Page 26 | Golf is Not Old Man's Game-School Kids Now Play It

GOLF IS is NOT IS-NOT NOT OLD MANS MAN'S SCHOOL GAME KIDS NOW NOVI PLAY IT ITi r i f By BROWN DROWN HOLMES What me play golf golf- olt Im I'm not an ol Pappy guy KUY I That's been said aid thousands of at times because a a. alot lot lot of ot- ot folk ha haVo ian idea golf gait really is an old man mans man's 8 game a e But listen It Its being played by pupils of ef public schools R. R T. T Jon Jones Jr JK 13 3 and Perry Adair 16 18 both beth of Atlanta Qa Oa were wert si ea in a recent tournament for the championship of f the th Sauth DeWitt Batch Jr 16 15 of Cincinnati Cincinat is II one of the hot conte fr for th the championship of Ohio Ohia The play of two year v old boys boy bo Johnny Johnn Kemp KemPI of Indianapolis md Ind and end Alex Heyburn Hey burn of Louisville Ky featured the tournament fo for the central states championship Chick Evans of of- Chicago Western I champion is il 25 and Francis Ouimet I worlds world's a open champion 20 Several hundred pupils teed off oft in ina ina a school tournament ment held in Chicago Some of the players player were not much larger than the clubs they swung Robert Shealy 16 won the Inter- Inter scholastic championship Jones Jone the year thirteen boy was tho the younge youngest t. t player for tho the Southern championship and oddly enough his hili first opponent was Bryan H HOard Heard ard 62 6 of at Houston Houlton the oldest player In Inthe the tournament and former champion of ot Tex Texas l. l Heard Hurd defeated the boy but Jones Jonel pitted against the ec second nd best bet sixteen golfers In the second flight defeated three seasoned players and got got- In into o othe the finals Heard who had eliminated youth was W l in turn eliminated by Adair the year sixteen star battled his ils way always alway men old enough to be his hi father tather to the tho semifinals Golf If is bel being 18 revolutionised d n mainly by the maintenance of municipal courses in all n parts parte of the country In many cities youngsters are even p pausing passing up bas baseball ball to play ply tb the old Scotch game gamo The number of ot p p persons ron rions playing golf olt golfIn In In the United States has ha doubled in inthe the tho put past tw two y years ar A A. large percentage per per- of the new devotees are boys boy under the voting Toting age women and girls So golf has bu become becom everybody's jams game C