Show NO recreation IN GOLF SAYS WRITER golf as placed ed by the average bustness business man la Is certainly not a recreation struthers St burt asserts writing in the e forum anyone who has seen weary and sometimes obese business men arrive on a train and immediately try to kill themselves by two SG 06 hole games a day will not IOD long cherish the idea that this Is pleasure for the average business man retired or not golf Is a substitution not a recreation it Is a substitution for business and as now played for the most part Is more like business than any other game it was first made popular by a conscience ridden race the scotch the more placid dutch having invented it promptly abandoned it and its as soon as they were given the chance the conscience rid den english and americans americana took it up enthusiastically you see golf Is the only game extant which combines exercise and at the same time assuages the sense of sin not only Is the competitive compe titine feature of it underscored and doubled for you are also always competing against yourself but there Is levarl ably enough misery attached to the usual game to placate even an old line presbyterian moreover your sins find you yon out they are there unconcealed for everyone to look at and theres no wiping them olf you cannot erase a bad shot by a good shot as you can in polo or tennis golf Is 13 a grand game for those races not no yet able to consider painless pleasure as anything but sinful it Is morose sullen and gives the impression of bein being worthwhile the last it a very important consideration to the average man trained to business s standards |