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# "Told at the 19th Hole": Golf Humor for Judge Magazine This page contains humorous golf anecdotes and a satirical cartoon by Walter Trumbull, written for an early 20th-century American audience. The cartoon "Golf as a Cure for Nervousness" depicts a man undergoing treatment for anxiety—spending $82 weekly while his wife exploits the situation, dining at expensive club bridges and charging him $48 for parties. His total expense reaches $2,656, with the "cure" clearly worsening his finances. The surrounding text mocks golf culture: golfers' obsession with the sport (wearing ridiculous knickerbockers publicly), their terrible play despite expensive equipment, and their petty obsessions. References to Bobby Jones (contemporary golf champion) and specific clubs like Oakmont in Pittsburgh ground the satire in recognizable contemporary figures and venues. The humor targets both golf's pretensions and how it exposes human nature—temper tantrums over missed putts, self-deception about ability, and financial recklessness disguised as leisure.
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scam, @Edwin Levick. TOLD If I boldly Have exquisite form? If the blushes warm your cheek Tam not to blame: Be it understood I speak Strictly of your game. * * & Tf you want to make sure that some one will remember you after you have gone, laugh heartily when your opponent just misses a putt for a birdie on the long hole. * * +* Nothing is more combustible than the explosion: shot from a trap when the player hits a foot | f the ball in- stead of an inch. This is guaranteed to make the mildest man explode. + * * A perfect swing is something which “GIVE ’EM AIR!” Oakmont Country Club, Pittsburgh, Pa. AT THE by Walter Trumbull A caddie regards a sweater as either something which he carries or something after which he is sent back. * * * All golf shops which sell equipment for golfers going to England are now laying in a stock of files. + * + The chief value of golf consists in the fact that it is a game where you have so many troubles that you forget all your other troubles. * * * The duffer's favorite story is the one about the man who dug the pit and then fell into it himself. es 8 8 If some one would invent a golf ball which would rise to a fly there never would be one lost in the rough. GOLF AS A CURE FOR NERVOUSNESS 19th HOLE You can tell how much some persons must love golf when th e willing to appear publicly in’ knickerbockers to play it. * #8 68 “Address the ball,” said the instructor. et those women out of earshot,” replied the perspiring pupil, “and ‘I certainly will.” s 8 8 Golf isn’t the number of clubs in the It’s the number of shots in the system. * 8 * A companionable game. One in which you frequently can find more enjoyment in being beaten by some one you like than in beating a champion. persons of golf as a you acquire in the parlor in winter and lose on the course in the spring. . * * Some families are broken up by a dimpled chin or knee, but a lot more are wrecked by a dimpled little golf ball. * * * “T broke a hun- dred to- ex. claimed the Joyful On “Clubs or yarc imagine. It isa life work. * * * ] pastime, we can not Bobby Jones Has won The cup. Open champ Cruickshank Toa Tie. ‘Then he Made another Try Showed him inquired the Old TREATMENT THIS WEEK, $82. His wife generously invites herself to dine a club bridge. She Grouch. A putt in time saves a nine. with him at the which cost And suggests she give club— does, spending $10 for $9. prizes and losing $15. 10 And he signs a check for the party of twelve at $4 a head, amount- ing to $48. Total, $82. How to putt TOTAL EXPENSE TO DATE, $2,656 And Cruickshank’s Now in Jones’ locker. comicbooks.com