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Show HIS REMARK QUITE UNKIND Caddy's Comment Fniled to Give Satisfaction Sat-isfaction to Golfer Already Disconsolate. Wnlter J. Travis, tho golfer, set up his ball, nnd then made & half dozen swishes at the short grass with the driver. "I am not In good form," he said. "1 am playing like a broker we had hers last wpek. "This brtficf played once around, making a dreadful exhibition of himself. him-self. Of this, though, he was nrft aware. Ho was doing pretty well for him. "The mnn's caddy was an unusually quiet, stolid lad, a boy with a freckled face qulto devoid of expression. "And since the caddy never onco laughed or sneered at h)s bad play the broker took n fancy to him. And he said nt tho end of the round, in the hopo of getting a compliment: " 'I have been traveling for the last six months. I nm quite out of practice prac-tice That ts why I am In such bad form to-day.' "Tho caddy replied calmly: " 'Then ye've played before, have ye, sir?' " |