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Show Hi I GOLF. g 'I Every year about this time the links of the I Country Club are covered with a rank growth of weeds. This year they seem worse than ever before. be-fore. Unless your caddy has exceptionally sharp eyes, four times out of five there is an annoying hunt for the ball after each drive. The forlorn flock of sheep which an equally forlorn boy exercises exer-cises over the course a few minutes each day will not touch this lank growth, and apparently the virtue that lies in a mower has not been hoard of by the man whose business is the upkeep of the course, for apparently nothing has been done to remedy the exceedingly exasperating conditions that pievail. The lucerne on the fair green of the ninth hole was grubbed out by the caddies after numerous balls and tempers had been lost, but nowhere else lias there been anything done to put the course in playable shape, and a game at present is almost a farce, weed-pulling and ball-hunting taking up about half the time. I do not think this is a fair deal to the players The course needs more attention now than at any other time during the season, and yet apparently the only thing that has been done is to grub out some lucerne that should never have been allowed in the straight course, and the working of a lawn mower near the qlub house that makes that bit of verdure look like a home-made hair cut. The bunkers are not bunkers at all. There is no sand in them, the lains have torn them out of shape, and the average topped ball simply kicks up its heels profanely, gives you the coarse, vulgar laugh, and jumps over. I am not jumping on any one in particular. I am just kicking. And under the circumstances, it is my private, 24 karat opinion, that the Great American kick is due. There seems to be more interest in the game this season than ever before, yet we have a tropical forest to play through that s seems capable in places of blunting a diamond drill, to say nothing of annihilating a modest, retiring re-tiring golf ball. c & An appioaching and putting contest is scheduled sched-uled for next Saturday. These are among the most interesting minor events of the season, and undoubtedly nearly all of the players will try the virtue of their mashies and putters on the club house turf. v ? 5 Nat Goodwin and a number of the members of his troupe are enthusiastic golfers. Mr. Goodwin Good-win especially never overlooks an opportunity to get out with his clubs, and his advance agent invariably in-variably calls on Mr. Goodwin's golfing friends out on the circuit and notifies them of coming trouble. If is quite probable that Mr. Goodwin and Miss Perry, Neil O'Brien and L. B. Woodthorpe of the company will climb the hills of the Country Club couise tnis morning and test the tearing capacity of iJaskells through, er, the fair greens. A FOOZLER. |