Golf Ball Kills Big Carp

1916

Man Comes to Town With Remarkable Fish Story.

BEDFORD SPRINGS, Pennsylvania — E. S. Kuhn of the Stanton Heights Golf Club, Pittsburgh, told how when he was playing the third hole, which is across a water hazard, the other day his tee shot landed in the water and killed a four-pound German carp, which was coming up to feed. He said his caddy waded into the water and returned with the fish, which he ate for dinner.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Sept. 16, 1916, p. 7.

Passing of the Athletic Girl

1901

The athletic girl, it is predicted, is to be supplanted in popularity this summer by the girl of the olden type, who knew nothing of outdoor sports except a mild game of croquet be included in the list and, furthermore, did not care to know. It is hinted that the men have lost interest to some extent in the self possessed, independent young woman who can row a boat — and sail one too — play tennis, throw a ball straight, make century bicycle runs, tramp for hours without getting fatigued, swim long distances, etc., and that a reaction has set in in favor of the old fashioned type of girl, content to occupy her summer days with purely feminine tasks instead of imitating her sport loving brother.

Golf has not apparently come under the ban of alleged masculine displeasure to quite the same extent as other forms of sport, but the golf girl's skirt has been lengthened until it just escapes touching the ground, for fashion's experts declare that it is not correct to wear skirts that are overshort even on the links.

Whether or not these predictions prove true and the pendulum really does swing back to its former position remains to be seen. Meanwhile the shops are making a brave showing of golfing outfits and other sporting paraphernalia for women, and outfitting costumes have not altogether ceased to attract attention. — Dorothy Quincy in Brooklyn Citizen.

True Sports Never Die

1901

Bicycling is almost as old as the present generation, golf is far older, though Americans in general seem not to have heard of it till recently; football was played in China more than 1,500 years ago and in younger nations ever since they heard of it, and archery and horsemanship hark back to prehistoric man and are instinctive in millions. These sports cannot die or even be killed, nor can any others that are liked; they are as irrepressible and immortal as the human impulse to get out of doors and do something. — Saturday Evening Post.

A Curious Epitaph – The Earth Swallowed Him, Spit Him Out

1915

A Curious Epitaph.

The following epitaph is copied from a tomb in the vicinity of Port Royal, Jamaica: "Here lieth the body of Louis Caldy, Esq., a native of Montpellier, in France, which country he left on account of the revocation. He was swallowed up by the earthquake which occurred at that place in 1692, but by the great providence of God was, by a second shock, flung into the sea, where he continued swimming until rescued by a boat and lived forty years afterward."


A Problem In Golf.

Two young ladies were making their first essay at golf. "Dear me," said the first young lady, "what shall I do now? My ball is in a hole." The second young lady took out a book of instructions. "Let me see," she said, turning the pages. "I presume you must now take a stick of the right shape and get it out." "Oh, yes, of course," said the first young woman. "See if you can find me a stick shaped like a dustpan and brush."


An Obliging Man.

Heine (at the village barber's) — I say, do you know why this man's shop is hung all over with sacred pictures?
Beine—Oh, yes; that is for the convenience of his customers. So that they may call on all the saints when he shaves them.—Meggendorfer Blatter.

A Mean Golf Caddy Gives Player Advice

1912

Caddy's Mean Suggestion

Mrs. R. H. Barlow, the eastern champion, said at the Cape May Golf club, nodding toward a certain man:

"Yes, he is a very poor player. Even his caddy, for all his liberal tips, scorns him.

"One afternoon he made a wretched foozle and tore up a sod. Lifting this sod in his hand — it was about a foot square — he said to his caddy ruefully:

"'What on earth am I to do with this, John?'

"'If I was you,' the boy answered, 'I'd take it up to the hotel to practice on, sir.'"—New Orleans Daily States.


Don't Quit!

Querulousness is one of the early symptoms of quitting!


Just About

The man who, for fear of being called a tightwad, deprives the children of their rights is about the most despicable specimen of humanity that one can mention off-hand.


Inviolable

It's not so easy to ruin him with whom the pressure of Christ's hand lingers in the palm.—John Inglesant

—The Daily Commonwealth, Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, December 17, 1912, page 4.