Judge — June 18, 1921 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# "The Spirit of Bunker Hill" This comic strip depicts a golfer attempting to play on what appears to be Bunker Hill, the Revolutionary War battlefield. The eight-panel sequence shows the golfer's progressive frustration with sand bunkers (obstacles in golf), which grow increasingly elaborate and problematic—from simple sand traps to explosive conditions to what appears to be military fortifications in the final panel. The satire plays on the double meaning of "bunker": both golf hazards and military trenches/fortifications. By setting the golfing mishaps at Bunker Hill, the cartoonist jokes about how golf's challenges echo actual warfare. The punchline emerges in the final panel, where the golfer's struggles have somehow conjured actual soldiers with flags, humorously suggesting his golf game has become as chaotic as actual battle.