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Edwin Levick. Mayfield Golf Club, Cleveland, O. TOLD AT THE oth HOLE by Walter Trumbull Bobby Jones Au: Disie’s tellin’ in joxtal tones The wonderful story of Bobby Jones: It seems as soon as the boy could crawl The plaything they gave him was a new golf ball And before he was h That little pellet he In all directions so has a cotton bale rned to whale and high It lost itself in the Georg So they took him out of kilts and away he went In short trousers to play in a tournament And he wrote new history on page And trimmed some players who were twice his age. He did right well when he went to school, But out on the links he was a golfin’ Still, there was al- GOLF “Why the strange bag-carrying technique, MacGregor?” “Well, y’ see, sir, I am about t’ become a father, and I thought I'd do a little practicin’ on th’ proper stance beforehand.” “You may be right, but T think you're wrong T surely feel it in my bones That Pm goin’ to be champ,” said Bobby And that's why in Georgia there’s no argument About runnin’ Bobby Jones for President. . +. 8 W's in a shop that ball I found I certainly believed That it was honest Mas! | around. I was deceived. I took it with me to the club And introduced it there. T now can see T was a dub Throughout the whole affair. Golfers, you all shall know the worst: Without the least remorse That guilty spheroid from the first Pursued a crooked course. T must confess it hurt my pride And made my feelings smart To think that, fair and white outside, It was so black at heart. No fault of mine that in advance T could not calculate That. while T gave it every chance, It never would go straight! AS A CURE FOR NERVOUSNESS ways some. little slip That kept him from winnin’ the championship Till he came to In- wood and then said he: “This seems the for me To show the folks who are up. this way The sort of a game Tean pha Said Bobby Cruik- shank, the somchow place When it would leave the path To mingle the rough. harrow with This story here I tell you all, So that you shall not make Through confidence in any ball A similar mistake. There man but hopes is no golfing ightin’ Scot: yyou think you'll win? Well, I think you'll nc But Bobby’s reply was loud strong: The weather threatening, but and panion is an siast, TREATMENT THIS WEEK, $850. is very start out, as his com- enthu- and get caught in a He thunderstorm; but being with a sport, is com- pelled to play 18 holes —and is drenched. they 17 TOTAL EXPENSE TO DATE, $3,556 develops monia, and is ill four weeks. $150; nurse, $200; doc- tor, $500. With every rising sun ‘0 know that when he Shall mak in one. the glee Preuw- comes Private room, a hole