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Show ggpVs Gran f land Rice .Copyright. 1 922, New York Tribune. Inc . Trade Mark Registered . U. S. Patent Office.) THE GOLFER'S MR CO! I Every day, in every way. My game grows worse and worse. ! Every day each time I play, I pause to sob and curse, Kach passing year I shed a tear. j Knee deep amid the sand. As each week end I always spend. A niblick In my hand. Every day. In every' way. Tho old game makes me sore: Every day each time 1 play. I get a larger score. This Caue fluif may be the stuff For any other fate. But It's all off applied to golf. Where traps and bunkers wait, WH i 1 IM H I R ' "Just what," asks Mr. Samuel G. Blythe, in "The Saturday Evening Post." " is a duffer? At what score should the term begin to tako effect?" Thero are thousands of golfers who are duffers upon their own admission where they are not duffers at all. No mun who plays an average game Is a duffer, so the next problem is to locate the status of an average game. Some time ago a certain well known golf club put the experiment through. This club had bettor than average talent Bcattered through its membership. member-ship. An 18-hole membership, medal play tournament was held, wtth every ev-ery putt holed out. The average score was 103. And the average score of the average golfer among all who play won't bo under this If every putt is holed on a good. average course around 6300 yards In length. There will be more above 103 than there will be under 103 tut: HUMJBLTNC. SIDE OF IT. We've heard many a golfer remark 'Oh. I'm Just a duffer I can't do bet-I bet-I ter than 94 or 96. I'm no good at all " Tho golfer between 90 and 96 Isn't , a duffer In any sense. Ho Is far bo-i bo-i low the average score Not being a professional or a crack amateur who gives more lime to tho game than he probably should, he Isn't expected to be shooting In the low ' 80'h or the lato 70 s Tho trouble is that golf looks so I much easier to play than It actually Is that at the end of most normal rounds each depressed entry' Is quite suro In-could In-could step out and take off eight or ten Btrokos. This Is why few are willing will-ing to call their average scores their normal game CORNELL'S RANK. "How will Cornell rank with Princeton Prince-ton In tho East if Dobie's team beats Pennsylvania on Thursday'. '" asks a reader. Penn is fully Htrong enough to be decisive 'est Princeton has played a harder schedule than Cornell, but Princeton has beaten no team Stronger i than P.nn at her best, as she was ; against the Navy. There are many observers who be-I be-I lieve that Cornell is a touchdown i stronger than Princeton but as there is no chance to prove this Vx-llef any argument along this lino ! futile. If Cornell, with all the speed and power the Jthacan have shown all ' ear. can beat Pennsylvania In any decisive fashion. It will be Impossible to take away the credit due for a flawless season. There are schedules and schedules. I Does any one bolleve that any team In the eust could move unbeaten, 'through Pittsburg's schedule Lafaj ette,. Went Virginia. Syracuse. I'ennsyl- I I vanla W. md J. and Penn State One of the main comedy stunts of tho season Is a lettor from tho average football nut in collegy or Just out, demanding de-manding "fair play" or a better deal I for hl team. Tho trouble, is that ! most of them can't see any further be-i be-i yound their own Institutions than n blind mole can see at mldnlKht w-r . little further than an aimless man can I throw i ninety-pound weight. Football p)aers, who carry the burden bur-den of actual warfare, look at the situation in a much calmer light. "But there is a suspicion that the game Isn't i at all times developing the finest 'sportsmanship in the world among j many of those outside of football harness. har-ness. It is the game above all others ithat calls for the broadest possible j viewpoint and yet In many ways is bucked around with the nariowest. 'And. unless this typ of mind is curbed curb-ed or suppressed thre will be considerable con-siderable trouble for the sport later 1 oo. For the third and not tho last time we arise to suggest that it is becoming be-coming entirely too vital a proposition proposi-tion for what It was originally meant to be. It Is now on the field among the players themselves that the best sportsmanship of the game Is found. This is usually the case. The non-.-ombatant too oft?n is th one minus the needed Ingredient of friendliness and the clearer, saner vision. vis-ion. But whether or not he can be changed Is another matter. |
