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Show Popularity of Golf Is Injuring Other Sports A short while ago it was announced that baseball promoters stated that th popularity of golf was surely injuring baseball, and more particularly because boys who formerly went in for baseball base-ball have during the last few years been lured from it, since "caddying" offers them not only good spending money during the summer, but the prospects of becoming a famous and wealthy golf professional some day. It has also been mentioned that baseball managers have almost invariably forbidden for-bidden their players to make golf part of their training schedule. Now, however, comes a cry from the pugilistic manager to the effect that he can, also feel where the lure of golf is going to cut "into his meal ticket." Youngsters who formerly thought the prize ring the greatest money-making' money-making' institution in the world are now also casting loving glances at the golf links. So many strange stories are being told and invented about golf just now that one might almost believe the latest lat-est report which comes from Florida, and refers to "rattlesnake golf." Those who vouch for the innovation, but claim it is very expensive, say that before a game starts the caddies drop a rattlesnake into each hole. When the player gets on the green the rattlesnake becomes uneasy, rattles rat-tles and pokes his head out of the hole, and the game is to knock off his head with the ball. It is said that the game is in vogue around IVnsacola. It may be, and then again it mayn't. |