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Show THE LOWDOWN. Golf is a form of work made expensive enough for a man to enjoy it. It is a physical and mental exertion made attractive by the fact that you have to dress for it in a $200,000 club house. Golf is what letter carrying ditchdigging and carpet beating beat-ing would be if they had to bo performed on the same hot af-ernoon. af-ernoon. It is probably the only game a man can pT.ay as long as a quar er of a century and then dis cover it was too deep for him in che first place. The game is played on care fully selected grass with little white balls, and as many ciubs as the player can afford. These baEs cost from 75c to $25 each, and it is possible to support a family of 10 people, all adults, for five months, on the money represented by the balls lost by some golfers in one afternoon. A golf course has 18 holes, 17 I of which are unnecessary, and 'are put in to make the game harder. A hole is a tin cup in the center of a green. A 'green' is a small parcel of grass costing cost-ing about $1.98 a blade, and usually located between a brook and a coupk" of apple trees. The idea is to got the golf t al from a given point into each of the 18 cups with the fewest strokes, and the greatest number num-ber of words. . . The ball must not be thrown, pushed or carried. It must be propelt' ed by about $200 worth of curious looking implements especially designed to provoke he owner. Each implement has a speci fic purpose, and ultimately some jolfers get to know what the purpose is, they are the excep tions. After each hole the golfer counts the strokes. Then he subtracts six and says: 'Made that in five. That's one above par.' After the final or,18fh hole the gofer adds up his score and stops when he has reached 87. He then has a swim, sings Sweet Adeline with six or sever other liars, and calls it the end jf a perfect day. |