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Show I NO RECREATION IN GOLF, SAYS WRITER Golf as played by the average business busi-ness man is certainly not a recreation, recrea-tion, Struthers Burt asserts, writing (ln the Forum. Anyone who has seen weary, and sometimes obese, business imen arrive on a train and immediately immedi-ately try to kill themselves by two 36-hole games a day will not long cherish the Idea that this is pleasure. For the average business man, retired re-tired or not, golf is a substitution, not a recreation. It is a substitution for business and as now played for the most part is more like business than any other game. It was first made popular by a conscience-ridden race, Ithe Scotch the moe placid Dutch, having Invented It, promptly abandoned aban-doned it; and as soon as they were given the chance, the conscience-ridden English and Americans took it up enthusiastically. |