GOLF.

Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 14726, 3 August 1921, Page 3

GOLF.

ABSENT BRITISH GOLFERS. A tribute to young British Golfers who gave up their lives on the battlefields of the world war and Avho, the paper suggests, might otherAvise he winning the championship for Britain, is paid by the NeAV York “Globe,” in a leading article headed: “Absent British Golfers.”

Remarking that the British Avere “forced to call upon such veterans as John Ball to make up a team to repel the invasion,” the “Globe” continues: “At a first glance one might be inclined to feel a little scorn for the British, who have always proclaimed themselves an athletic nation, that they should theoretically 'have to piece out any team with performers of the past generation. A little thought changes any lighter feeling to one of profound respect and regret. It is plain enough to anyone Avho seeks the truth where British golfers have gone. Great Britain fought in the AA*ar for four and a half years 692,000 of her young men were killed, 2,000,000 Avounded. Practically all the 1914 generation of v golfers were killed or crippled in France, Mesopotamia and Syria. Older men Avere called upon to forsake the game for national service, Golf courses Avere converted into air stations or ploughedup to grow vegetables. “America sends a team chosen from the felloAVS of the young men Great Britain lost. It may beat the British team. America hopes it will. Yet AA’hether it wins or loses no one on this side , can fail to pay a tribute to the dead young golfers whb might have matohed themselves with Evans Ouimet and Jones.

Life is for the living and goes on regardless of fallen heroes, but Ave Avho live in the wake of the world’s greatest Avar find 'that the dead explain many things.” (Impressive : as the New .York “Globo’s” casualty figures are, they Tinderstate British losses. Our dead among whom the missing must be included, numbered ,1,038,055.)