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# "Told at the 19th Hole" – A Golf Humor Page This is a humorous article about golf culture by Walter Trumbull, published in *Judge* magazine. The main satire targets golf enthusiasts' obsession with the sport and the financial drain it causes. The central cartoon illustrates "Golf as a Cure for Nervousness," showing that a golfer's treatment costs $713 but yields no results—he's still sleepless. The banker anecdote reveals the joke: players gamble $1 per hole plus caddy fees ($18) and lunch ($4), losing constantly. The page mocks golfers' contradictions: duffers spend hours reading golf instruction articles by professionals like Walter Hagen and Gene Sarazen (famous contemporary golfers) rather than practicing, yet they can't afford practice time anyway. The final quips suggest golf is an expensive escape—men take it up when disappointed in women, while women simply find another man instead. The photographs of the Inwood Country Club and a fashionable woman reference wealthy leisure culture where golf was primarily a pastime for the affluent.
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Edwin Levick. “John Henry, what are you doing?” “Trying to over- come my water haz- ard jinx!” HERE would appear to be some differ- I ence between the boxing swing and the golf swing. Jimmie Wilde played golf the re he met Pancho Vi at the New York Polo Grounds. The result was not much of a boost for golf. Willie Ritchie also spent the day before the one which saw him lose his title, on the golf o. Of course if the rules permitted the taking of a niblick into the ring, it would pay a pugilist to spend his final hours of preparation in developing a golf swing. Unfortunately the Marquis of Queens- berry was most conservative and his manual of deport- ment for boxe discourages the of iron clubs inside the ropes Taking all things into consideration we should advise prize fighters to give up playing golf the day before the battle and instead to play it the day after— if they can. Most of them can’t play golf on either day. a T reason that the average duffer doesn’t spend more hours in practice is that he can not afford to take the time. It puts him so terribly behind in his golf A banker member sug- And loses every hole, ests that they play for which costs him $18 1 a hole, caddy fee and and the $4 caddy fee, lunch. He consents The Inwood Country Club, wood, Long Island. by Walter Trumbull reading. He may be a duffer, but he does not wish to be an ignoramus. If some one speaks to him about Walter Hagen’s article on “The correct way to play a niblick shot from a tomato can,” or Gene Sarazen’s treatise on “The proper stance in a bramble bush,” he wishes to be able to take an intelligent part in the conversation. So, while he would much prefer to get out in the hot sun on the sand of some § -ourse and by alternately hooking and slicing try to fool some caddie as to which clam shell the little ball is under, a rigid sense of duty keeps him at home GOLF AS A CURE FOR NERVOUSNESS $29—TREATMENT TO DATE, $713 10 And signs a $7 check for the lunch. for the afternoon, $29. (Sleepless night.) Keceday® ? ® Ki KKK eet I = = in an easy-chair, where the wind from an electric fan flutters the pages as he reads immortal gold literature and ice tinkles in the glass beside him. Unless the golf writers grow less prolific we can not see that the duffer has a chance. * * # There was a young fellow so tough He could sock a golf ball hard enough To cause it to fly From the tee to the sky— But it always came down in the rough. * * H=" Cuapp Smirn’s favorite golf story is that of the man who went to the house party where they served cocktails instead of coffee for breakfast. A little later they went out to play golf. The visitor, with grim determination, focused his gaze on the ball and waggled his driver. Then he turned to the spectators. “Zish,” he com- plained bitterly the first time I ever was stymied on the tee.” + * & When a man is disappointed in a woman he takes up golf. When a wom- an is disappointed in a man she takes up another man. Total comicbooks.com