Ogden Morning Examiner | 1909-06-20 | Page 1 | Real Wit at Golfers' Dinner

odo c Ii REAL WIT AT GOLFERS DINNER DINNERMan DINNERMan DINNERMan Man Tells How He Touched Rocke Rockefeller Rockefeller Rockefeller feller and Got Away with It There are arc only two taro real hits as speakers In town nowadays guaranteed to make good In Inan any an company One of r them is Simeon Ford who says he has retired and the other is Patrick Francis Murphy who Is bald buld and grows old They The met mel at the golfers dinner the other night and spilled epigrams BO so rapid rapidly ly 1 that the tho reporters had to quit writ writing lag ing to hold their sidell says tho lie New NewYork J I York correspondent of the Cincinnati Murphy in the saddest I manner mannor possible declared that tho ono distressing thing about drink was that it produced the temperance orator The barbarians ho said insisted on regarding golf ae ne a retreat for fallen men He held heir that golf goH was the pur pursuit suit stilt of pale pills by b purple people There are arc born golfers and born horn duffers duffers duffers fers and the tragedy of It Is 15 we WI never noor know which we are It is like mar mars marriage ringe a game arne of chance not skill And Aud then Ford got sot up lip and com complained I because he lie had to follow Mur Muir Murphy pity phy who is a polished orator from rom tho the sole of his feet to the crown of hip hp head Personally I wish he had a o duller finish on his head hend And after attar talking on awhile In tho the same tone In which he might announce his own death ho told a golf story It was once my privilege and pleasure said he to lo soak John D Rockefeller in the theoff theoff theoff off hind leg In the golden calf with witha a golf ball It was at a distance dh tanco of or 50 yards ards He was excessively annoyed but when I told him I think I could drive that far he was mollified I am probably the only man who ever I touched John D and got away aay with It Il I