Life, 1925-06-18 · page 9 of 43
Life — June 18, 1925 — page 9: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This Life magazine page (page 7) contains humorous content about golf and social issues circa 1925. The top cartoon shows a man beating a large rock with a golf club while a woman and child watch, captioned "Papa is full of static"—satirizing golf's frustration and its effect on family life. The "Golf Statistics" section humorously lists absurd calculations (e.g., golfers' swing energy could heat dinners, lost-ball tips, statistics about killed golfers), mocking the era's obsession with quantifying everything through statistics. The bottom strip illustrates six sequential golf poses demonstrating "playing from a bad lie"—showing increasingly contorted positions as a golfer attempts shots from difficult terrain. The other sections—"June Rainstorm" (poetry) and "Why Discriminate?" (brief commentary on whisky quality)—are unrelated filler content typical of Life's satirical magazine format.
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“PAPA IS FULI. OF STATIC.” Golf Statistics HE total energy spent upon prac- ticé swings by any one member of any one foursome in any one match of eighteen holes would, if usefully applied, save $1.50 expended upon hir- ing a professional beater for the dining- room rug. The amount of care which all golfers over 45 spend upon sighting short putts would annually save 45,621 picture-nail drivers from smashed thumbnails. The number of divot-raising shots made on any fifteen golf courses in one month would extract all the dande- lions from 278 suburban lawns, each 4 feet square. The number of words used in re- counting if-it-hadn't-been-for anecdotes at the nineteenth hole in all the golf clubs of Essex County, N. J... would tell 14,658 bedtime stories. OF PLAYING FROM A BAD LIE 6,582 humorists will write 4,777,829 too many golf jokes in 1925. The number of slices made at Siwanoy in July, 1924, would have carved 467 114-pound sirloin steaks, allowing 6 picces to the steak. The number of hooks in the same period would have caught 82,004 three-pound pickerel. The tips to caddies finding lost balls during May, 1910, would have sent 82 children to Lirr’s Fresh Air Farm for two weeks and Lire itself for one year to 27 hospitals in the Metropolitan dis- trict. The paint used to refurbish old balls at the Westchester-Biltmore would have reconditioned 8,097 kitchen sinks. 14,627 golfers ought to be killed every month. Baron Ireland. 7 4 June Rainstorm IKE a chicken-hawk.— Savage plunge from the blue,— June rain, You strangle the peony stalk, With a murderous wrench you strew The lawa with pain. Then off with your prey in the gale, Downy petals spreading the tale. Melville Cane. Why Discriminate ? TRANGER: Is whisky in town? Native: Wal, I guess you could get it. But, hell, man, we got stronger stuff than that. there any real E doubt whether the Riff war would amount to so much if the name weren't so handy for headlines. comicbooks.com