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Show I, , 1! Ik, HH Royal Game of St. Andrews Survives "jSp" X h I 11 J j jj CQcstc Attacks on . BY RIM.Y MUIUPH ' Although the late Mr. Andrew Lang preferred ghcwts and other psychic things as raw material for his pen, he occasionally made very delightful excursions Into more ill dane literary fields. ; And indeed, the glamor of his 6tyle raised the most commonplace M subjects towards the region of su- f. pernormal I About golf, for Instance, of which I distracting game ho appears to be -1 a somewhat unwilling victim of the I 5l ' duffer class (this Is his own char- 71 ,r acterlzatlon), he throws a new haze I jj of mystery In the course of a mur- j derous attack upon it. '1 As a direct result of his an- I thematlzatlon. a new order of fla- 1 gellants has arisen, with the pur- P pose In life of castigating golf and I golfer 1 i According to these Iconoclasts, the gamo can't be learned, the golf-'! golf-'! 'jl er being born Instead of made, i The critics aow that Intellect Is J wasted on It j '. IJ i Tne Patient study of books and 3 diagrams and the muscular dlstor- '.41 dons grotesquely known as "form" m lfl y affected by professionals, time absolutely thrown away. 43 ft These Idol-shatterers point out 3 A thai the great Ray declares that 1 golfers play the game too serl- 3 I on sly. f "Eorjtet your brains, toss out tho LW j seriousness and Just hit the ball I JU that's the fellow that plays the ft game." eaya Ray. Jj "The jrreat playcfta today don't a rely on the brainy, precise tactics LW l! W Just view the land, grasp your if stick and take a poke at the hall. LmW n must rely on !""k a great deal i.S an1 the fault I most notice among th golfers 1s the ceremony taken il ,," Ply the name. 1 would advise J everyone to forpet brains and ' "U 'form' and hit the ball." i fl The Iconoclasts pftt themselves y'fM n thS "back" aft?r hMr1nir R.iy, statement and say. "I told you so!" if I Tho" 'hen go on to assert that 'M thc f,n,y essentials for th R.,me Qf tiffm St' Andrc,v an empty head .VtB and good temper. Neither of these can be attained through mental or manual train- 'Wm DfTKLLSCTrUAL ARE 'JsStmWM: nr r I I , mmm Wjm Statesmen are never g6od golfers n4 intellectual people rarely $0. KH L y the Iconoclasts. Wm And for fpar the censorious will JB: "c an attempt In this to excuse j$H thelr own deficiencies, tho new or- J.jjH dr of Kot critic point out that tner "n't full grown thrill In the jfcpB whole conglomeration of holes. BB greens. tees. mashlcs. divots. SjffijH braasles. foursomes, etc. WfM !f g,f 8Urv,v the gruelling 9 Punishment being handed out by MB 1 lh critics, one good result win fol- y3 low Us caatlgatlon. w!S Tne haughty condescension with which the "bogey man" Is wont to MB tolerate the propinquity of the dif- HH ,cr- he of the slice and tho schlaff and tne fop- wlM b changed to re-Bpectful re-Bpectful admiration. BH For th latter's hopeless game Is to 00 henceforth a badge of intel- H: lectual superiority. Oo tha nineteenth green his spec- I -ulaUvo autopsies Will bo listened to R with at least some semblance at re- HH ' 1 pect and hla contribution of balls, H 1 rceiad with a doctnt pretense that they were earned, not found. But there are other aides to this great game than the one which is presented by the iconoclasts. "When a game In fifteen years moves from 50 active participant! to roll call of at least 2:.0,O00. It must be a fairly p leaving occupation and of some interest to at least a few folks It is estimated that nearly $3f-000,900 $3f-000,900 Is spent on golf In the United Kingdom alone each year and that of this huge sum only a little less than half, or $12,500,000 gors tu the caddies. In the United States the estimate esti-mate has been made that $C,250,-000 $C,250,-000 Is spent for golf balls. J625.000 for clulis. Each golfer's expenses are placed at over $100 a year and his railway fares and other ways of reaching thc links are impossible of compilation. compila-tion. GOI7F is GUI m i i; GAME THAN BASEBALL. Did you ever slop to think what a really great gamo golf Is? Base '" A T upper left, reading from left to right, are Vardon, Ray and Christian Kenney. At upper left Edward Ray is shown driving. In center, at left: Mrs. Dwight Davis; at right, Mrs. Allen T. W est. Below, at left, a group of caddie.. At right, from left to right, Jesse L. Carleton and Wendell Hertig. ball Is a magnificent pastime, but the ball player cannot play ball always. al-ways. His musclea get stiffened up after ten or fifteen years of hard service and men he lores his tunm.ag. Of course, as In everything else, there are exception. The golfer can take up the game as a boy and play It practically the rest of his life. The business man derlws great pleasure In closing down hia desk for the afternoon, knowing that he is going to have a pleasant round on the links. The game can be played during a rainstorm or on a Arte day. To be aure, it is much more fun to play when the sun Is shining. You may jo out with a heavy burden bur-den on your mind, but after playing a few holes, you caat. aside your cares nnd put your heart and soul into the game. Then thc excrdso one jceta is Invaluable. Legs, knees, fingers, hands, arms. In fact, all of the body comes In for its share. Golfers all know that nowhere will you see such glimpses of nature as the Scottish game affords, Tho trees, ponds, valleys and verdures make most pleasant vlstaa. An article on golf would not be complete without at loast a passing pass-ing mention of thc visit this year to America of Ray and Vardon. the BnyHah champions. The two will take back no championship cham-pionship belt, but they hae cracked enough course records in America to fill a warehouse. As one contemplates the een and wonderful sweep of their game, day after day, over course after course, the wonder grows that the American. Ameri-can. Francis Oulmet, was able to check their march. Wa are wining to yield the two Ungllshmen this credit 'hat desplta defeat in the championship there Isn't an amateur In America with the exception of Oulmet nnd but two professionals who could beat either one. In one battle in ten Marts. The Boston wonder kicked In at the proper moment on the Jaaenth occasion. 1 tfn i 1 1 m n iMiN r I ONSUVBB QT7IM1 I A certain well known golfer tells an Interesting story of how Kay and Vardon felt about the championship. champion-ship. jut after oulmet had tied their count. The play-off viae scheduled for the following day. "I was walking in with them." says our Informant, "when Ray turned to Vardon and remarked: Well. 'Arry. you and I should hav. quite a battle for this bally first money tomorrow.'" "Quite so. Tea," replied Vardon. "It should be an even f.sht between us, if we are both right." "It wasn't." added our frh nd, "until "un-til the next day that either figured Oulmet in the match at all. And een then up through thc twelfth or thirteenth hole they had no Idea that Oulmet would be within threo strokes at the finish. The visit of Ray and Vardon ha promoted talk In golfing circles of having annually a series of International Interna-tional golf matches similar to those of the Davis Cjp tennis serlea. Nothina oflelAl hss ben sn- Bounded regarding the movement, but It is reported that one of tho leading golf clubs In this country Is icferring the Idea to the British golf authorities and that an offer already of a cup has been made by tho American club. British golfers, both men and women, hae at times during the last ten years played moro or less fic'iuently In American tournaments and Americans hac made still more frequent appearances In England, but the contests hae lacked tho well-defined arrangement which would be brought about by com petition pe-tition along thc lines of the Davis Cup series. The women golfers attracted unusual un-usual attention this year on account of the visit of the English women. It was a very pretty split of honors. hon-ors. Just as If it had been made to ordcrthat Miss Gladys Ravcnsci oft and Miss Muriel Dodd made of their Lot or Racket. Howard Elliott, the new president of thc New Haven & Hartford Railroad, Rail-road, was talking t a luncheon In New York about a millionaire who had been boasting overmuch boasting boast-ing about hla Raphaels, his Louis Seize furniture, his Gobelins and his Aubussons. "Of course he'e a selef-mado man." said Mr. Elliott. "I'm very fond of self-made men. The only objection to them Is that, sometimes some-times they've failed to put themselves them-selves together ao as to work noise- SfSSrtT " invasion of the American rontlnonL I Miss Dodd won the Canilltn championship at Montreal aud eev- J I eral weeks later at Wilmington, Del., S Miss Ravenscroft won the national H i h.i n piMtihlp of tho United Stales. H It was thc one real opportunity H England has had to cheer in a yctr H ..f ..Uil.'tics that has been lingular- I ly i successful ono for the United H fl Ret worn Poet. Two poets sat having a frucsl glass. i 1 -Ii Mums anil T'e wrs t- tonight." fhUI "!)'. W could have a rollicking time." "I'd rather have Croesus here," said the other. "He could buy a t. w drink?. Those other fcllowl wouldn't have a cent." Tame Reading. "Football niny bo a treat gams, but I don't enjoy reading about A Why not?" UCb a dearth of slang." 9 art - rt tm i Pool I U. r 0M tiiv.der who on one Journey W" BH ril U annoyc. 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