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Show ;WOULD REDUCE GOLF LINKS TO 12 HOLES i ng;ishman Advances Reasons in Article in Sphere. 'Ancient Sport Could Be Made Tolrp. able If Course Was Cut 84x Hole Numerous Evlli of Game Would Be Eliminated. , There Is only one golfer In Kngland wliie Ideas should appeal strongly .'to the Western Golf association, says an Knstcrn writer. He Is A. I. Her-a Her-a bcrt, mid ho writes as follows In the W Sphere, a Hrltlsh publication : "I think that by strong measures H mny still be possible to make golf a 'tolerable gume. The chief thing Is thnt It Is frightfully cninidfraled and Rightfully laborious. The fundumen-tol fundumen-tol cause of this Is the unfortunate filing of 18 holes. I wonder who Old tUnt? It Is rIx holes too long. "It Is because of these six holes that the bondslaves have to bolt their breakfasts and miss their bnths and come back late for lunch; thut every ctio 'rushes around the course at a hand gallop; that every one Is always eithor pressing some one In front or letting somebody go through behind; that overy one Is touchy In the morn-lng; morn-lng; that every one totters, exhausted Into the clubhouse and takes to secret drinking before lunch. If the normal course was 12 holes these evils might disappear." |
