Show I t I vI vII I U The Almost Naked Truth About the Very I Mias M Shirley Vemon as b p I Match Miss Shirley Vernon Had to Finish in looked n which he shed ing was tho obliged barrel to tos play the last few boles o s ex the novel DOVel golf match abe ahe I in a Barrel When She Lost Ally r P oat lost to her Mend friend Mias f J j b 14 t Her Clothes as Penalties for A Being Outplayed It t I s a aV of a r V r s a tX tt s 's att r rY ay q r r z l fl r ty i w ts r Y r f 7 fi a r h tf t H lx yr tt f P y A r wk k R c f I i 4 f I r F L 1 r a l 4 at r Rr ta E i i r J e as te a n Yn t ta dh ey 1 y y ive ived d J JY Y I t 11 I I I I 4 1 f fI n I a 1 r I If f 7 4 r r f rI I 1 Ill r 4 al a aW iwa I HE shameless little hussy I Mr Golfers Golfer's stout perspiring wife WE ing but bat eminently proper believe her eyes Surely a oung woman wouldn't couldn't stand out on the of the fashionable Sound View Golf Gol Club of Great Neck LI L I in full View new of half balf a county wearing little or noth noth- nothing noth- noth nothing nothing ing e except her silk knickers h Mrs Golfer was walking across the tha links that thet afternoon to lose a few super super- superfluous superfluous superfluous ounces and Incidentally to see how far James had got with his his game She Sho had been so bus busy puffing and blowing li over the rough that she hadn't noticed no- no no noticed the laughing shouting group ahead of her until sho she was as fairly close upon them And then she saw saw-or saw or thought she saw the the sight that made her eyes eres Widen and brought from her lips a gasp of hor hor- horl horrified l 1 rifled amazement The group centered about a girl wIth blond curls whose feet and legs were as bale as Mother Hubbards Hubbard's cupboard The rest of her body was partly hidden bidden by such scanty protection as coquettish t i silk knickers can give And yet clad laho ha this she was waa bending over her club to make male another drive as unconcernedly as if it she were not a good deal less than half dressed The good looking girl who was apparently apparently playing against t the shivering clad clad beauty defied the tha conven conven- conventions conventions only to the tha extent of being minus one ona shoe and stocking What scandalized Mrs Golfers Golfer's ees eyes and ears oven more than the tha undressed condition of the two players was waa the up- up uproarious uproarious up uproarious merriment of the girls and yes men yes h two 0 who men men who surrounded them They were laughing and shout shout- shouting shouting shouting ing quite as if it they didn't care how desperate the risks of pneumonia their companions took tooh As Mrs Golfer gazed spellbound at this extraordinary scene scena she the saw a man come running from the direction of the tha clubhouse He was carrying a barrel While one of the other men seized the clad clad knicker-clad lady and held her fast the newcomer thrust the headless and bot- bot bottomless bot bottomless cylinder of the barrel over her head bead It satisfied some of the conven conven- conventions conventions conventions by hiding the gay silk knickers from view but left the rest of her as naked as before Dumfounded Dum Mrs Golfer decided it was high time she hurried on to the tha clubhouse And there she learned that what she had seen out on the links lins was wasa wasa a part of the spring frolic which a few well vell known members of The collies rollies cast over in New York were enjoying A feature of the frolic in frolic in fact asIt asit as ast It t turned out TIlE THE feature of the af- af af affair was fair fair was the tho game garao of strip golf that was as to decide whether Miss Nellie Sav Sav- Savage Savage Savage age or Miss Shirley Vernon is the moro more skillful and incidentally to prove to Mr Ring Lardner the humorist that both are good It was vv as the climax of this contest Mrs hire Golfer Golier was liS told on which she had como come uninvited in her afternoon ramble across the links But what had become of their clothes T Why was the haired curly curly w blonde playing in her silk knickers demanded Mrs Golfer for strip golf V was as something that meant as little to her as a gin daisy does to a prohibitionist Then her friends wiser than she in some of the gay worlds world's eccentric forma I I rv I Inon By By the time Shirley Ver- Ver Verv VeT Ver v c f l I W 1 Ir iw non's hadre had reV V It Mik k non penalties re re- re WW Mi rj f du d he her to he her gay goy silk Ith K knickers her opponent W Wl y J f l y M MM J M Miss Nellie Savage had W J t 1 1 i y yr w r A pt w 3 f been forced to sacrifice j q v 1 y tf 1 N ea ear r a only one shoe a and stock stock- f r PAI ATH J V fing v 1 ing Ping mg It was plain that a a Hj I P Pr 11 S barrel was going to o be 1 y I f J Ji i s needed soon to enable Miss Vanon to finish the v a Wilt tW match anda and a thoughtful man i q R o g y t 5 ati j came hurrying from iris club club club- r t V O n ah 7 R tr M Y M Y y J i C WU Ii s ft f w w J yaY a r rf ya yar house lu that sF rj w S very lc Y 7 r thi thia thing barrel with the i iu u r tT Cis yx a r 4 r a 11 a at fW W H J IL A R r top and bottom knocked Siv- Siv J j u fai A tj r a s out so 80 that it might S tf 4 t r take the place of x 1 c M F- F f aryl 6 the knickers ifa asto t aby y yN they had to go b o b 4 y k j f fk k sL t ib 3 A Ai i t b n tl 4 Y a eb IS t Y Jf y r rIS 3 st te- te y fit C 2 s a Y y 0 A as ash hp a 9 h f iF a 5 yf Yla a F f aye h I a Cv A id wA dR c cy A f I II aa aA a A q yf M r t a 1 ii I y Y Yn Yi r 1 fr jg i Ad W s K a 3 n l rPt Y a id W s sw w P r s 1 4 4 n ri k y x Y Yc swi 9 fi s t f a aY ay y rF o-K o r rv y SC rA C rr t 9 sari K s t d 1 ai 1 y f t a a'S S 'S tF r r yh o or ora a ro w nl r g r a Y hh fM try 3 Alfa f y 4 A W a n Q j jr r p CC L Sit b t K C rd Rr t b i ib w b taA a r z nr t N y 1 r ix k kY r 4 fyS M Mel t rd F f C t The very R Y n loa e r of i the s strip t rip rm 4 golf match of amusement x 4 x explained t h n a t strip golf isan Is an application to the fir a golf ancient game of golf of certain rl rules which have long been popular in to certain circles arcles m in what is known as strip poker In strip poker each of of the players remo es an article of clothing for each losing hand on which he or she bets In striP golf the same penalty is exacted at each hole for every stroke stoke over par Miss Shirley Shirloy Vernon the head curly ed blonde in tho the knickers had proved the tho poorer player and this was vv as as why she had shed BO so much mor more clothing than her opponent Miss Nellie Savage As Mrs Golfer was further informed striP golf has never attained the tho pop pop- popularIty popularity pop popularity of strip poker the reason doubtless bem being that poker is usually played in m the tha seclusion of four walls while golf demands the great grent open spaces where a n curious would may tee See Even the best beat golfers hesitate to riska risk a strip golf contest for fear th they y might be off their game and lose loso an embar embar- embarrassing embarrassing embarrassing rassing amount of clothing D Yf If Y 1 r aP Z r t s t P c s sP n y y KI KIr KIa r J a One night recently several of the Hie Fol lies beauties were feeling pretty full of fun what with spring coming and they decided to go out in the tho country some afternoon and celebrate Tho conversa cons conversation ersa- ersa tion turned to golf goll and soon they were all bragging about their respective skill Just then Gene Buck the librettist and his friend Ring Lardner happened along and asked what the noise was all about Ring was as a little littia doubtful as to whether these dainty beauties could play golf as well as they claimed they could Ill In tell you what well we'll do he ho said Ill take you all down to the Sound View Golf Club for your frolic and well we'll ell playa play a game for the championship of the rollies lollies Now which two of you play the best game Pretty nearly everybody agreed that t I 11 ff t f 1 J t th hi L t fI S t 2 b i CC i- i iI I t A f C U it- it I r n 1 n i Shirley Vernon verno and 1 SC Nellie Savage were among the best beat with y the clubs But Ring t didn't bel believe i eve that pretty Sh or pretty Nellie could really handle anything more mora complicated than a 1 sill silk para parasol ol and he kidded them for a 1 time tima about it Talk about knowing n a hazard from a Ill green green Ill I'll bet you never had I a golf stick in your hands Blondie Blondle he jibed until Miss Vernon swore shed she'd vouch for foi her game b by playing striP golf She Sho was that sure of her skill Nellie Savage proved an equally good sport and said shed she'd play strip too So it was wall settled Ring Lardner was to judge tho tha match and Gene Buck was to be referee It was decIded and agreed that each of the girls was to discard one ono article of cloth cloth- clothing clothing ing at each hole holo for every stroke over par Hairpins jewelry and such like were ere not to be counted as clothing The game gama started w with l th than an excited gal ler lery gallery consisting of numerous other mem mom members members bers bees of the Follies company Miss Vernon lost w coat coal at the tho first hole When she he drove nI Q a bunker be- be bet between be between t tween een the first and second holes tho ga nJ- nJ I t Jm r rJ J r t N r rJ J Ii II f ft J j k w t rM A- A Aj J X j J 0 l-J l u t t y lery decided it would bea be bey y a speedy game and 9 they'd see seethe the thrilling finish in III plenty of time to get back to New York in time for forthe forthe forthe the evening performance Miss Savage gave up one shoo shoe and stocking at tho the fourth and fifth holes taking h two 0 strokes over par both times Shirley Vernon played well for sev- sev several several sev several eral holes then dubbed at the ninth nd lost first her hat and then Ulen her skirt shirt Oh Shirley isn't it cold 1 jeered the gallery Oh Shirley where did you buy that lovely Georgette My dear Its It's gorgeous Will you iou OU give gl it to me at atthe atthe atthe the next neet hole 1 Every Lvery one one was prepared for the worst and Shirley Shirley was plaYing very badly by this time Nellio Nello Savage continued to keep at par but poor Shirley went right on drop drop- dropping dropping ping drop ping her pretty pI etty Georgette things Her lier shoos shoes and stockings soon followed Fighting hard for her remaining cov- cov covering covering cov covering ering Shirley tried valiantly to keep down dom to par at the tenth hole When she drove into tho the rough DUd midway ay be- be between be between tween holes the crowd was delighted She was bound to keep what she sho had untIl the last hole but fate decreed that the exasperating little ball would not move out of the rough grass Shirley missed strokes with ominous regularity while the girls hooted and warned her shed shod die of pneumonia It was just then that Ring fling Lardner saw the dowager puffing along in the tho r kT z distance and began to feel scared Oh Lord Lord Buck Buckho l ho groaned look what's give coming give Shirley your topcoat for mercy's sake sakel I Oh go on what do you care was the rejoinder wo we are arc going to finIsh this match out just as we wa planned Then Shirley reached the seventeenth hole with three strokes over par She paid part of the toll toU and then stood in inn ina ina n a quandary Those glove silk were all aU she sho had left It was Wail then that the barrel arrived And presently after a II good deal of sqUIrming on Shirleys Shirley's part out from inder slipped those silk Shirley proceeded to finish her game gamo in the barrel She Sho got along all nIl right until sho she in a sand pit and couldn't get got out of it at all It was a very well-fitting well barrel as barrels go but painfully lly rough around the tho edges and the tha wind mulo mado m do draughts through the cracks When she stood up straight sho she had to hang on to it with het her arms and if It she bent over oho sho could play no better The Tha result was as an appalling number of extra strokes and soon Boon the loss of the barrel was vas threatening But chin wh n Shirley missed the last putt she dropped her club and ran for the tho clubhouse as fast as the tho barrel would let lether lether lether her L Everybody was satisfied with Mien Vernons Vernon's gameness even though beaten Before she dressed for tho trip back to v New York her friends insisted that she sho pose for her photograph with the barrel on her and a 11 golf club in her just hand hand to prove prone pro e to a sometimes incredulous world that tho the strip golf match was the real thing t t tv v |