IS GOLF WORSE THAN FISHING?
This is the kind of thing, remarks the "Manchester Guardian," which helps to give golfers their unenviable reputation:—We know (writes "II.") why the golf ball fascinates men and women so irresistibly. It is because it can reduce its user to a deeper tragedy of impotence than the. ball of .any other game. But what is the secret of the attraction for the birds of the air and the beasts of the field? Crows and seagulls—ao the newspaper paragraphs tell vs —make a habit of carrying golf balls away in their'beaks, cows swallow them as though they were pills, and an American squirrel, going one better than any animal in this country, ,as befits his nationality, has hoarded''no fewer than 68 golf balls in hiss nest. We still hold tho'record for kindly effort, however. A grasshopper, on ono occasion, alighting on a- ball handing on tho, lip of the hole, g;nn it the necessary impetus to drop. Against' that, however, is the story of the' muscular frog Who spitefully returned • a fine putt from tha bottom of thijtin^
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Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 18
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182IS GOLF WORSE THAN FISHING? Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 16, 19 January 1924, Page 18
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