Life, 1928-10-05 · page 21 of 48
Life — October 5, 1928 — page 21: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page contains a multi-panel golf cartoon satirizing amateur golfers' struggles. The sequential panels depict a bumbling golfer attempting various shots, each ending in failure or mishap—slicing balls wildly, hitting into hazards, and contorting himself in increasingly desperate attempts to complete a single hole. The title's irony is clear: "the dub" (slang for an incompetent golfer) finally succeeds, presumably after extensive comic suffering shown in the panels above. The surrounding text discusses Army-Navy football scheduling disputes and includes other satirical pieces about a World Series cancelled because sports announcer Graham McNamee has a sore throat. This is **Life magazine's typical 1920s humor content**—visual slapstick comedy targeting middle-class recreational activities and contemporary public figures, using exaggeration and wordplay for laughs.
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— hat the Army bad boys weren't wanted in intercollegiate gridiron competition is found in this year’s West Point schedule, ith the Cadets facing the leading teams fom all points of the compass. Navy ad- serents hinted that the Big Ten teams of the Midwest, with their strict rules, would gor to associate with the Army’s vet- cans of four or five years’ service on the diron. The retort to that is the news fat one of the feature games of next year rill be the clash between the Army and [linois at West Point. It’s about time the Navy took to the lifeboats. The Army has proved its case so far as schedule- making is concerned. They can play any- body and draw up their own rules of war. As a matter of fact, the “three-year” rule was adopted as abarrier against the “tramp athlete,” and so tramp athlete could survive three months ef mathematics at West Point, not to mention three years of close order drill. But granting that the Army has the tetter of the argument so far in the fiery campaign, the fall schedule doesn’t look quite the same without an Army-Nav' ame to top it off, and that colorful ant has been wiped off the football program for the next two years at least. (Both stitutions have lined up most of their “key games for 1929 and 1930.) It the elderly and irate Staff officers will alm down and get out of the way, maybe the boys themselves can arrange a dual debate on the gridiron for 1931. There was once a Navy man who said: “Damn the torpedoes; full speed ahead!” ht would be refreshing to hear another coe say: “Damn the three-year rule; let's xt in there and lick hell out of the Army!” A National Calamity Tt staxos were filled one hour before the game was scheduled to start. The fams had gone through an extensive bat- fing and fielding practice. This was to be fée deciding game of the most exciting World's Series ever played. Then the fans noticed the occupants the Press Box wringing their hands find talking excitedly. The Managers and Presidents of the teams, the Presi- ents of the Leagues and the Umpires heed in the High Commissioner's POX. Rumors began to circulate that the would not be played. Fantastic reasons were given for its being called off. Some said that the President of the United States was dead; others that Nicaragua was invading America; that France had paid her War Debts in full. The Announcer was called to the High Commissioner's box, and after a moment's conversation, he went to the middle of the diamond. “Ladies and gentlemen,” he thundered through his megaphone, “‘today’s game has been postponed indefinitely. Graham McNamee has a sore throat.” John Henley Tyree. WEAK AND DEFENSE Once, I was seventeen; Later, I was twenty. Then I was twenty-three (Always on my knees). Since then my years have been Added to a-plenty, Still, ladies do with me Just the way they please. Charles Drake. Poputar music reminds us that it’s a short strain that has no returning. comicbooks.com