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THE LISTENING POST
By Walter Trumbull
' (Copyright, 1922)
In golfing tests he never could
~ Be picked as a survivor,
Because his head held far more wood
Than did that of his driver.
. « ^Y,e .reaLd recently that Eclipse Park, the home of the Louisville Base
ball Llub, had been completely destroyed by fire. They plan to build a
concrete stand on a new site. When they do many old memories will be
left behind. For example, there used to be a Louisville infielder of whom
many stones are told. Once he dropped a fly ball, and as he came in to
the bench made an address to his comrades. "You think the old boy is
coming in here with an alibi,” he said. “Well, he ain’t. There’s no alibi.
You thought I d say that ball took a sudden shoot. Well, it didn’t. It come
down straight as a sunbeam, and it wasn’t twistin’ much neither. Mebbe you
thought there was a lump in my glove Well, there wasn’t. My glove was
all right and the ball hit sock in the middle. No, there ain’t no alibi. But,
believe it or not, just as I went to catch that ball a drop of sweat—” The
rest was lost in a howl of laughter.
The war is over; let us sternly smother
All words which grieve;
Be silent—but how loudly speaks, my brother,
That empty sleevel
When all other critics are still Time pronounces judgment.
The best time to find out about your neighbors is before you begin to
build your house.
Never blind yourself by crying over your bad luck while the other guy
is dealing. * /' “i ,
We love this winter baseball;
We think it simply great: '■* j * ; ,
It makes it such a pleasure
For us to hibernate.
It seems strange that so many with songs in their hearts have such
bum voices. '
There is good in every one, but it frequently takes an autopsy to bring
it out.
The planet Jupiter is larger than our earth, yet a child’s extended hand
can cover it.
Boston is known as the home of the baked bean, but the Harvard eleven
demonstrated that it is not the home of the half baked bean.
What lime we take the lonely way
With thoughts for utterance striving strong,
At parting we may only say,
"So long'.”
But should we meet amid the din
And bustle of the busy throng
Again, ah, then we’ll soy, "It's been
So long\"
The ground between 20 yard line and 20 yard line has very little to do
with the answer to a football game. It's just put in to make it harder.
Babe Ruth is now supposed to be on his farm, keeping in condition.
Perhaps he is swatting flies and taking pitchers to the well.
Most boys will tell you that the skill required to pass a football is as
nothing Compared to the skill required to pass an examination.
You can cut down the tree, but the roots still remain deep and untouched.
Memory is like that.
Many Pro’ Changes In Order
at Leading Clubs of Country
Worthy Instructor May Hare to Leave His Club on Account of
Change of Officials—New Course Often to Blame
By John G. Anderson
The many changes in the ranks
of the professional berths the com
ing season are due, we discover
from the professionals themselves,
to the changing of committeemen.
This is scarcely as it should be, for
it is manifestly unfair to expect
a professional to please all the
members. We were told the past
week of an instance in one of the
metropolitan clubs where a pro
fessional had left a good berth at
a club where he had been for a
number of years and had been led
to believe that he would be hired
indefinitely. There was a new
president elected and a new green
committee and then a new pro
fessional installed, although the
incumbent had given satisfaction
to all appearances. Tough luck,
to say the least!
The new courses, which always
seem to be legion, are other rea
sons why professionals are pre
sumed to be migratory individuals.
Last year, in the Chicago district,
a prominent professional accepted
the job at a new club. His place
was taken by a neighbor, and be
fore the season opened there had
been seven changes, all due to that
one new club. The coming year
is going to see another shifting
in that district of still greater pro
portions. One very fine feature
is the fact that the increase of
clubs is keeping up with the in
flux of good pros., as well as the
rise of the younger element to
prodom. .ft
Sarazen’s Victory a, Boost
The remarkable victory of Gene
Sarazen at Skokie has done more
to boost the game for the younger
professional than anything else.
In connection with that victory,
we have often wondered just
where the turning point came
which swept him from defeat to
victory. We played in the two
qualifying rounds with Sarazen,
and then followed him in his early
holes of the second day with
Farrell. To our mind the fifth
hole on the morning round was the
great and vital point in the whole
seventy-two holes of tourney play.
Only the last few holes have
been dwelt upon, but many a
time Gene must have shuddered
as he thought how near the fifth
hole came to spelling his destruc
tioii. He had been hooking his
drives terribly and on this hole he
hooked to dire trouble. He used
a deep faced iron for his second
shot and while he was out of the
trouble he was a long way from
home. Again he essayed a long
shot and again he hooked to
trouble the friendly branches of a
tree keeping the ball on the course.
Then he overplayed the hole ten
to fifteen feet and was left with
a downhill putt which looked im
possible on that slippery, soft and
irregular green. But the ball
went down for a five.
That hole marked the end of
most of the ragged play. It was a
fortunate thing, for had he not
won there would have been little
enthusiasm among the younger
element of caddies which has been
so evident the past few months.
)ur future professionals will come
from the caddy ranks.
Old Custom Changes
The change which has come in
the hiring of the professional the
last five years has worked to his
and the club’s mutual advantage.
Ofttimes it was the custom to have
the season’s run from April or
May to the corresponding month
of the following year. Nowadays
the term runs from the end of the
year or from January to January.
This means that the professional
and his family know that he is or
is not to be engaged for the suc
ceeding year at a time when it is
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We mention this fact at the re
quest of several professionals,
who informed us that their com
mittees keep them on the anxious
seat from April to April, and they
wish a change if such can be ac
complished without undue trouble.
Surely it is the right of a pro to
know in advance of the spring
whether he is to be re-engaged or
not.
No reports have come as yet of
the results of the courses in golf
green-keeping, which have been
proposed at several of the colleges
and universities. But there is a
certain demand for men who have
a college training. To date there
have been perhaps one in a hun
dred of those who have undertaken
the care of a green who have seen
the walls of a college class room,
but we predict that the time is not
many years distant when this will
be a field lucrative in many ways.
Position Hard to Fill
To begin with salaries will be
as high as those of many of the
professions and they ought to be
steady, too, for there is no ques
tion in this country harder to fill
today than that of the first class
green keeper. Each week finds
requests from all sorts of the land
for good men. It is really a mis
take to take a man from New
York and put him in Chicago if
he is one who has been localized -
l and has not had a broad educa
I tion on these lines such as the col
! leges some day will give.
| To the college green keeper we
may look for an excellence which
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