Show golf comes to its own with heman he man best of rising players come from public links washington D 0 not so go long ago golf was quite generally regarded as a game for idlers who were too lazy to take up any strenuous alport and for elderly gentlemen who liar been deluded into the belief that pottering lottering pott ering ground a meadow alter after it little white pill might add a few years to their lives when women began to take it up it was even eun more disparaged by chesty individuals who prided themselves on being liemen hemen lie he men they laughed lau glied nt at the idea that lint it was a form ot of athletics end and called it cow croquet they derided any ono one who took it it be real exercise they sold because those who played the agnine hired a caddy to carry tile the golf lags bags and clubs ond and chase tile the balls which was the only hard work involved it bo be a test of skill because any one could knock a ball a few hundred yards walk up to it lilt hit it again and then baby it into a hole in the alie ground they found the golfers costume of knickerbockers especially mirth pro boking grown men cavorting around in short pants I 1 and this thing of using a different club every time you lilt tile ball what rot A bats bata a bat when you play baseball it you get one you like and then you stick to it until you break it or somebody swipes it dont you you dont uso use a dozen different cues when aou ou play billiards or pool do you too polite on links and then theres tile the business of being so BO polite the golf etiquette stuff more blore rott talk or move while malting making a shot it if you do you get two slaps on the wrist or maybe threat what would baseball bo be it if you razz the lie batter try to rattle the pitcher and bawl out tile the bird who pulls a boner A games a game and not a ten tea party I 1 and when anybody gets in your way you cant yell Gett heh I 1 youve got bot to say foro pleason plea sol and may we go through but the day came when some of the noua US boys tried playing golf they do it because they were interested or ever could be interested in the game but just its as a personal favor to 0 o someone been coaxing them to try it or maybe lust just to show the game up as the lot of condemned foolishness that everybody with horse sense knows it Is perhaps they thought they would give a little demonstration on of what regular guys could do if they descended condescended con to swat the he bull ball a few times at any rate they alley tried it and they discovered it Is not a joke today golf Is game it Is no longer it it ever was merely ft a rich mans pastime it Is not necessary to 0 belong to tin nn expensive and ex causie vo country club in order to enjoy it tile the grent great increase in the number of p anks has brought the fame within the he reaca fencl 9 af f practically eita every ona on w ano to desire desires s to to take U u up P and when aei tournament time comes aroun 1 io aid d the ho public links players are found among the ho contestants on the courses of the finest private clubs there la Is no aristocracy of golf no snobbishness no from england conics comes tile story of a member of royalty a duke and three of his chums playing it a match game with four coal miners it was a regular challenge affair and the miners won otter aate a nip and tuck struggle former caddies Trl triumph out at tile the recent national tournament at dayton tho the players from washington won the team eam championship and one of them won tho the medal for the lowert score in the qualifying round and figured prominently in the title match play all of these players were former caddies on the old columbia club courses here some 15 years ago before the club developed its present championship course |