GREAT GOLFER ON GAMES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2835, 17 January 1925, Page 4

GREAT GOLFER ON GAMES.

VALUE TO SOUL AND BODY. “A few words about games,” was the text of Mr J. H. Taylor,' the famous golfer, at Bristol, recently. “Now, my theory is that games are good for the body and the soul (hear, hear). I am perfectly certain that no man who played it with all his might ever turned a dirty assassin, a contemptible traitor, a mean dog, an unspeakable blackmailer, a vile pimp, or anything else beneath the dignity of a clean-living savage (applause). But, more than that, I believe that nine men out of ten who love'the game they play will learn from that very game virtues of a positive character. They will get the feeling of team work. They will learn the value of accuracy—beautiful accuracy. They will see a new meaning, a new value, in temperance. They will keep their bodies fit, their minds and their souls straining after perfection. They won’t go to the devil —for what has the devil to give them better than a good game? They won’t waste time in brooding on their grievances, for wasted time means wasting muscles. They will he keen to improve themselves. They will discover Ihe joy of good health. They will want to do their best (applause). “Now let us get down to business. How many of our industrial cities, how many 'of our prosperous country towns, provide the means tor good games —provide for the slumdweller, the mechanic, the shop assistant, and the clerk the means for playing good games? They provide policemen and lamp-posts (laughter) —two very good things. They provide dust-carts and inspectors of nuisances (laughter) —-again two very good things. But why not playing fields?

“Apart, from home influences, abouf which 1 will not speak. I owe everything in mv career to a working man’s golf course which was started at Westward Ho! more than 40 years ago. I cannot imagine what i>(y life would now lie if it bad not been for that working man’s golf course. It enabled me occasionally to escape from heart-breaking and terribly ill-paid work —work from six in the morning till after six ill the evening—to escape from that and to believe that life was made for a blessing. It taught me things at the dawn of my manhood which have become a part of my character and which have helped I like to think, to make life better and happier for my children. “It enabled me in a material sense to bid ter my position and to enlarge my view of life. But most of all it helped to shape my character; to give me understanding of what life demands of a man, and what a man ought to strive to be —never mind how often he fails—if he is not to sink in the scale. It taught me morally and spiritually that I must get down to life, plant jpy feet firm as a rock, keep my head still, fix my eye on the place to hit, deliver a decisive biow v and come clean through (applause). No fumbling, no foozling. no blaming the club in my hand —dean through, firmly, strongly decisively through. EXPERTS AND MEDIOCRITY. Giving what, he termed “an expert’s farewell,” he proceeded: We cannot nil lie experts, and we are not intended to be experts; but experts have their uses. An expert raises the standard (hear, hear). He is the enemy of mediocrity. He will not let himself stick in the mud. ilis foot is set on the neck of “Old Anyhow,” that slouching, slatternly and blundering old fool who thinks that anything will do. Anything will not do in this universe. Ask the engineer, ask the chemist, ask the surgeon. Natural law is no philanthropist. Evolution is not a tea party. The race is still to the strong, and effort will be demanded of us to the end of time. Experts keep us moving on, keep us wanting to improve, prevent us from being selfsatisfied. What did Carlyle say was the greatest of sins-—“to be conscious of none.” But no mail need be an expert to five a game, and it is ihe love of die game apt the prowess, that invigorates the mind and refreshes l be body. The duffer can be happier than any champion —(laughter) —if lie loves his game and is always try ing to be a little better (hear, bear). You remember Koberl lands Stevenson’s thoughtful phrase that “it is better to travel than to arrive.” There’s the spirit for I lie true pilgrim. There’s the spirit for every man’s “Pilgrim’s Progress.” Moving on; always moving oil, contented, but never satisfied. In lids spirit T would love to think flint the democracy of this great country will soon lie playing games from one end of England to the other, as grate fill to heaven for tlie gift of life as I am grateful to you for your kindness, and' for the sympathy with which you have heard me out (applause).

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