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Show GOLF. This is chapter two of the Tale of the Knocker. "But," growled the tea scrappers and clock golfers, "what is the use of trying to fix up the course? The rains and wind spoil any attempts to improve the greens. It has been the worst season we ever had. It is a waste of money." Is it? All right, let the bunkers and greens go until the rains cease and the winds blow their blooming heads off. Bumpy greens of the hardness of bricks and bunkers that don't bunk are sorrows that we have always borne. But Hoyle's Rules on Tidle-de.winks do not provide for losing a new Haskell right in the fair green. With the hot-house vegetation of the Country Club links in its present flourishing condition, it needs an X-ray aparatus to find a ball even after a short approach shot. A man with a mower has been found. He has cast his eagle eye over the virgin forests, changed his quid to his other cheek, and declared that it would be better to wait two weeks longer before amputating said v. forests, as ho wasn"t sure that the mower would work at present, but would surely when two weeks' growth had been added to the vegetation. Then perhans it would not be necessary to cut again. In the meantime we continue to pull weeds and buy new balls. The course in its present condition is simply a joke. I did intend to kick about the 'bus service, too, fl but never mind. That hardly comes under the m heading of golf. Still, it would be a comfort to fl find the 'bus at the right end of the route once H in a while. Then when those ladies got off the H car, waited for about twenty minutes in the broil- H ing sun and finally discovered the 'bus half a M block down the street, in the shade of the'shel- jM tering poplars, with the driver audibly asleep, m you cannot blame them much for saying things. mM Occasionally, well, not quite so often as that, the H driver forgets himself and happens around the H club house when members are willing to go H home. Generally, however, the shady spots H where the cars stop look pretty good to him late jH in the afternoon, and then, you know, no one is H going to the club at that time of day, so he car H rest. We" like to walk down that road anyway, H especially after playing four or five times around H the course. H Any one who has succeeded in using a return H check for that 'bus please stand up. M t O 17 1 Again a tie is chronicled In the series of jB games between the two club teams, the Cleeks M and the Brassies, and that dinner bids fair to be M one of the features of the fall tournament. M fcvV V t Putting and approaching contest today. M A FOOZLER. |