. Review of reviews and world's work. ne wdiich was at the bottomof this sudden and widespread love of out-of-door sport. We as a people were ready forsome such invitation. It could not have hap-pened in 1860, nor in 1870. Tliis mad chaseafter gutta-percha balls, with shepherd-crook-looking weapons, by men and women of all ages,from fifteen to sixty, has its rational sanction. We have much Saxon blood ; we are of therace that loves exercise and physical the Indians and the wild beasts were dis-posed of, and we had built our roads and bridges,our houses and our granaries, we tur
. Review of reviews and world's work. ne wdiich was at the bottomof this sudden and widespread love of out-of-door sport. We as a people were ready forsome such invitation. It could not have hap-pened in 1860, nor in 1870. Tliis mad chaseafter gutta-percha balls, with shepherd-crook-looking weapons, by men and women of all ages,from fifteen to sixty, has its rational sanction. We have much Saxon blood ; we are of therace that loves exercise and physical the Indians and the wild beasts were dis-posed of, and we had built our roads and bridges,our houses and our granaries, we turned naturallyto some other form of wrestling with nature. Inits last,analysis, sport is nothing but that. It isartificial war. Men must fight to live, and asthe spiritual fighting alone is hazy and discour-aging to most men, they must needs supplementthe struggle with tangible foes. AVhen theworry and the war of our first settling here wereover, we turned to sport with our surplus follows the surplus. Money, in its last. Reproduced from tiolf. Courtesy of Harper % Brotliers. KEBO VALLEY GOLF CLUB, BAK HAKBOK, MAINE. analysis, is merely leisure ; leisure is choice, andchoice is time. When a man says he has notime for some particular thing, lie merely meansthat he prefers to do something else, or must dosomething else, for we all have all the timethere is. We in the United States have reached a con- 460 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY REI/IEIV OF REVIEWS. ^Hfl ^^» Wk WM 1^ I ^ ^ ^•^g^Sfa ^m ^^^^r ^2 ? 1 m ? ^fe*^2^^H M*a^tew» 3 ^F-:^ >-^?^ f ^?V^^*«^^SP ? flp H I ? ? Im^ .^^.^ ? PASADENA COUNTKY CLUB, CALIFORNIA. dition of prosperity wlien we can choose—whenwe are not forced to hammer and shovel andshoot to keep ourselves sheltered and fed. Golf,then, is not necessarily a fad at all. It is a veryagreeable, wholesome, and suitable way of spend-ing our surplus of time and energy. Some call it ^goluf, some call it goff,and some call it gowf ! A certain gentle-man was ta
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