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Show ; -- - mmr , Uncommon i Spnsp ,OHN i WdJLdC BLAKE a in ! ENJOY THE GAME QENTLEMEN who play golf will tell you that the man who tries too hard never does very well at It. Incidentally, he never gets any fun out of the game. There are many parallels between golf and life, which Is doubtless the reason that so many people are devoted devot-ed to It. Golf, of course, Is a game, and only a game. Yet there are many of Its followers who can see only the advantage advan-tage of winning, and who come in sour and Ill-tempered If they lose. Others, while they try to win, get Just as much fun out of it If they lose. Aud they never stamp on their clubs or throw them away, or swear at the caddies. cad-dies. It Is very Important to .win In anything. any-thing. But It Is more Important to get your allow once of fun out of It as you go along. Sitting wheezily In any rich man's club you will find old gentlemen who wanted to win more than anything else, and who did win fortunes, but lost their health and "their happiness In the effort. And, with all their money, mon-ey, you can set them down as losers. human effort. There are things the good sportsmnn will not do, even to win. One of them Is cheating; another Is becoming so absorbed In. the pursuit of victory that he forgets' everything else as he goes along. John Ilurroughs, who probably never had more than the necessities of life In all his existence, got full measure of enjoyment that was denied to many who made a tlrousund times as much money. Incidentally, he was a very successful man, for he added to the sum of human knowledge. I Win If you can. Get a fortune If you can. Money means Independence, and the ability to do good in the world. Cut never forget that there Is enjoy mem as well as trouble In life, and that If you are Dot too Intent oif winning win-ning what the world calls success, you will he happier as you go along, and stand Just as good a chance of making your life worth while, and the world better off because you lived In It. (Copyright.) |