PERILS OF GOLF

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22864, 20 October 1937, Page 12

PERILS OF GOLF

MOST DANGEROUS GAME ' ' - i Y ' t ■? \fj VIEWS OF AN OSTEOPATH ' ' ' ' DESCRIBED AS NONSENSE An osteopath, Mr. T. Mitchell-Fox,, stated recently that "golf is the most dangerous game in the world, as an exercise is fallacious and is a positive source of income for the osteopath." He was speaking at the eonfcrenoe in London of the Osteopathic Society of Great Britain. Golf, he said, was bad for the following reasons:— "Any exercise the golfer gets is lost by the nineteenth hole. You get as much exercise going for a walk in the country. "The majority of people who play the game do so at week-ends, when they are not prepared for sudden .athletic activity. Tempers are frayed, they hit like fury, and something happens. "Everyone of any age who wants to play golf should he conditioned for the game." The first divot —figurative— to descend on him was from J. H. Taylor, contemporary of Braid, Vardon and Herd. "What nonsense, what" proven nonsense," said Taylor. "Life assurance figures show that the age of a golfer is prolonged by exercise. It is beneficial not onlv to physical, but to mental health."' A doctor said: "Practically every afternoon during the summer you can find doctors playing on every private course in London. What better judges could you have of its value to health? As an exercise it employs every part of the body." The* last word, and most unkindest cut of all, is from Mr. Mitchell-Fox: "I have played golf, but I do not play nowadays," he said. "I take part in more manly sports —boxing, .swimming, fencing, riding and running."