GERMANS AND GOLF
The fascination of golf is one of those things that apparently no German can understand. He regards it as “cold” and tiresome, and speaks of it as “meadow billiards.” which it never faintly resembles except on the putting green. But nevertheless the German attributes to the game virtues which its most ardent British votaries Would hesitate to claim tor it, though there would be some ground for their doing so. According to a recent Hamburg paper, “produces the qualities necessary / for any statesmanlike or diplomatic work.” Wo have always suspected (says the Christchurch “Press”) that there was more, in golf to recommend it than an opportunity for exercise in the fresh air, because that can be. obtained by chopping wood or digging, and neither of those occupations holds those who practise it in tho thraldom under which the golfer plods the daily round. , Now, thanks to the “Hamburger FTefndenblatt,” wo know when we see a man hurrying to a train with a bag of clubs on his back, that recreation is not his chief purpose: lie is going to give his statesmanlike or diplomatic qualities a chance to develop.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLII, Issue 9695, 25 June 1917, Page 10
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