GOLF FOR SOVIETS
Surely the pure milk of proletarian grace is in danger of being watered down ! From Moscow we hear that a “ golf architect ” from America has been called in, and is now visiting the south of Russia, seeking sites for golf courses. Here is a drive in a new direction, for where in all the world is a game more ancient and royal and more thoroughly bourgeois ? Can red shirts be worn with plus fours ? Will the comrades take turn and turn about with the caddies " Will they introduce the grace and zest of the ballet into their penitential plodding from hole to hole ? Gan the tee replace the samovar ? Do they water the greens well in Goodna, And make their own mashies in Minsk ? Above all, now that fairy stories arc taboo in Russia, how will they come home and tell their wives in how many they went round ? Stalin may banish gnomes and sprites, but even he may find bogey too tough an antagonist.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 11930, 23 January 1936, Page 4
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