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Show ! That Game Called Golf! Golf is a form of work made ex- pensive enough for a man to enjoy it. Golf is what leller-currying, ' would be if the.-e three Ui.-ks hliii to 1 ho performed on the same hot afternoon after-noon in short pants ami colored socks by gouty-liKiking gentlemen j who require a different implement I !or every iikhhI. A golf course has IS holes, 17 of j w hich are unnecessary and put in to make the game harder. A "hole" is a tin cup in the center of a "green". A "green" is a simill parcel of grass costing about $1.!IK a blade, and j usually located between a brook and a couple of apple trees, or a lot of t "unfiiii.-died excavation." 1 The idea is to get the golf bull from a given point into each of the ' 18 cups in the fewest .strokes and the greatest number of good cu.-.s words. Tho ball inii-t not he thrown, pushed push-ed or carried. It must be prupelled by about ?."(). 00 worth of curious-looking- imjilcmcnt.s, esccially designed de-signed to provoke the owner. l-.ach implement has a specific purpose pur-pose and idtinuitely omo golfers get to know what thut purpose is. They are the exceptions. .After each hole has been completed the golfer counts his strokes. Then he subtracts six and says: "Mude that in five. That's one above par, Bill. Slmll we play for fifty cents on the next hole, too?" After the final, or eighteenth hole, the golfer adds up his score and .stops wen lie has reached 87. Then he has a swim, a pint of gin, sings "Sweet Adeline" with six or eight other liars and calls it the end of a perfect day. Exchange. |