Judge — December 1, 1923 — page 16: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Edwin Levick. St. Louis Country Club, St. Louis, Mo. TOLD AT THE 19th HOLE by Walter T WAS many and many a ye I On a golf course by the That I stood on a tee may know, By the name of the Seventh Tee, And I walloped a ball as a golfer aught, And I got me a birdie three. 1, which you So it’s never I thinks of those beautiful links But L thinks of that birdie three, And there’s no place, I claim, where they talk of the game But I speaks of that birdie three, And I'm never afraid that the picture will fade Of that truly remarkable hole that I played, On the golf course there by the seas On that course by the sounding sea. * * * y has taken up golf, but she'll never draw amillion dollar gate to see him hit a golf ball. Let dogs delight to bark and bite, But, listen here, my laddie, To bark at partners isn’t right And never bite your caddie, + * + In the bright lexicon of truth there is no such word as alibi. * * * H™ a lesson you must learn: Go back slow. Pivot smoothly as you turn For the blow. If you swish the little club, As you start the ball to drub, You will always be a dub; This is so. * *# # Looking at the frantic effort to lox leaves the club head. doesn’t mean a it just after it Trumbull i W: ARE going to write a play some day about a fresh-faced little golf ball, which leaves its good home in the city for the big country. There it falls into the hands of a wicked club man, who drives it into going to rough places. It finally gets away and hides from the club mi d the latter forces a caddie to look for it. The clever and noble caddie double crosses the wicked club man, rescues the little ball and takes it to his own home, where his 1 mother sits in the soft glow of the forty-watt bulb she has placed in the window to guide him through the dusk. The little golf ball gazes at the mother hesitantly, but the sweet old lady says, “I know my son, and any little golf ball that he brings home must be a good golf ball,” and she stretches out her hand. This will pro- vide the happy ending. Of course the movie rights to such a production would be extremely valuable. It is easy to visualize some of the titles which would be used. “The Flight of the Little Golf Ball.” “Rescued from “Goodness! setting of eggs!” 14 “Lost in Devil’s Gorge.” yening, and the Sw Mother Sits by the Radio Listening to a Bedtime Story.” ft, from the Bull, in the Window, Stretched a Path of Light and Through Its Radiance He Carried the Little Golf Ball Home. Sweetness and light! Besides furnishing the uplift, for which the movies are so noted, that ought to knock “em for a row of cameras. aced + oe * They told us a story the other da about a golfer who was supposed to Ix maimed, beeause he frequently played out of a bad lie with a club foot. * * * “Cupid kills some with arrows, some wit! traps.”” So Shakespeare says and, pondering, we reflect The last part of that statement means perhaps, That Cupid is a golfing architect. * * * It was at the Oakland Golf Club that Fontaine Fox entered the dining-room to find members of the Coffee Hous Club, who had just finished a tournament, solemnly eating. Everybody looks so despondent,” he said, “that T assume they played their usual game.” * * * Charles Hanson Towne, the poet. claims that the secret of good golf is rhythm. He plays in’ perfect’ metrical form and insists upon measuring his shots in iambic feet rather than in yards. * * & The difference between Pop Geers and Abe Mitchell is that Pop has been driving longer than anybody in the world and Abe is the longest driver. + * + The average golfer plays a course in 100 strokes and 200 alibis. + * * In King John, Shakespeare speaks of int George, that swinged the dragon.” ently is a misprint. It should aint George, that swinged the Golf is an ancient game. I thought there was something queer about that last comicbooks.com