Judge — August 18, 1923 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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| TOLD AT THE A Lost Ball Pers ore day on the golf course i I was weary and ill at ease; T couldn't shoot from the fairway— Couldn't drive from the tees. playing : Probably 9 or 10, i And I'm ‘sure the word I muttered Was certainly not Amen. But I struck one golf ball fairly, Or so at the time it seen For the click it made was the music Of which I had often dreamed. Tt quieted pain and sorrow; It scattered gloom as it fled; For I felt that, once in a lifetime, T hadn't lifted my head. It scurried away in the dis- tance, But—this is the part that’s tough It swerved like a frightened rabbit To plunge in the blasted rough. T have sought, but I seek it vainly. I think ‘twas a crying shame To lose the one ball I wal- loped The day I was off my game. It may be that death’s bright angel Will bring me a_ better score, And I know that only in heaven I shall see that ball once more. + * ® What. annoys a woman golfer the most is to have some other woman come in one colored sweater up on her. * & * The t faults of most dubs with a mashie is playing the ball too far away from them and bending the left-arm. 4 They should realize that the bending by Walter Trumbull Joe Kirkwood has form on the links, eyebrows and shoulder blades. of the arm went out. with doors. And when they can’t hit a close by, how do they think they ean reach way out and hit The Lord only knows—but they are in there trying. advised us our right A professional the other dé to play a certain shot o' 19th HOLE toe. He didn’t say which toe and we didn’t ask him. He must have mistaken us for Kirkwood. But we have risked enough at the game of golf. If he thinks we are going to risk a toe, he has a flock of guesses coming. a | Praise is nothing but a partly written scrawl, Or a lot of shadows dancing on a wall; It’s of small importance, but If a golfer dubs a putt Try to tell him nothing matters after all! Just try! ‘That’s all! * * * | STARTING a new golf course the first thing to he considered is the club- house. It is well to start with a simple little building, no larger than Madison Square Garden. st plan the kitchen, the servants’ dining-room, — the — main dining-room, the luncheon- room, the storeroom and the pantry. ‘Then go ahead with the offices, the smoking-room, — the bridgeroom, the lounging- room, the ladies’ sitting- room and the aquarium. This is especially necessary as you are sure to need quarters for a lot of queer fish. Next it might be well to consider a special assessment leading from the east wing. The dressing- rooms, washrooms — and locker-rooms and veranda café must of course be large and everything except the cost should be light. A second special assess- ment can be run_ right around the clubhouse. The first year’s dues will of course go to paying the interest on the mortgage. When the professional's house and the caddy house are built you will be ready to begin work on the course itself. It is now time to take up a con- tribution. If you get anything over $1,000 put it into a pit on the first hole. A real golf course should be like the cherries on the bottom of the box—all pits. This will run up expenses and keep the poorer millionaires out. Golf should be within the reach of all. comicbooks.com