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Show THE GAME OF QOLF. How Exercise May be Dangerous for Aged Beginners. Tho sneer that golf Is a gamo only for those not agile and venturesome venture-some enough for games of greater danger has long ago faded from golf criticism, and now It has actually como to pass that golf Is arraigned as a gamo dangerous for men who may bo described as) "aged." It Is said that If a man all through his life hns followed sedentary habits, allowing his muscles to becomo weak and flabby, particularly those muscles In tho region of tho heart, golf may very easily provo too severe a strain fcr his system. But in the pages of a golf Journal this view Is partially criticised criti-cised by ono who did not begin the gamo till he was very near tho neighborhood neigh-borhood of sixty. Ho declares that It is a matter of beginning gently, nnd ho tells us that in his own case he does not And two rounds a day particularly par-ticularly exhausting. At the samo tlmo he confesses that he has always been an enthusiast for outdoor exercise, exer-cise, and Is Inclined to think that for a man who has never taken physical exercise rather a rare experience it may be a llttlo exhausting to begin with. It Is all a matter of not overdoing over-doing It at first, but, unfortunately, so attractive Is the game that the oldest beginners are tempted to go In for it rather moro vigorously than Is wise. The result of all this latest pother seems to bo that like everything else In llfo It Is wisdom at tho outset to "go slow," and this is a verdict that "aged beginners" should lay to heart |