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GOLF AS A MEDICINE
Those who Walk the Links for Health
May Throw Physic to Dogs.
Dj Destroying the Element of Self-
ConclounN the Game Give a
Complete Ilettt to the Mind.
I HE worth of flrolf as
medicine is appreciated
by the physicians, and al
though it mars the profits
of the druggists, doctor
are forced, through prin
ciple, to send forth their patients to the
links-. Quite as many play golf as a re
storative to health as for exercise which
is a form of medical treatment or to ex
eel in the game for its own sake, and
which is the best of it the getting near
to nature on the links never fails to re
turn a bounty in good spirits and renewed
energies. Another good thing is that
more than one who has been ordered to
the game by a doctor, has developedinto
the first rank as a player.
While all who play the game know its
mental and physical virtues, there are
sceptics among the non-players who do
not appreciate the medicinal worth of the
pastime. These captious critics, who see
nothing In the game but a "loss of time
and a waste of strength," carry along
their opinions uncontradicted until the
inevitable hour of the consultation with
the family doctor to account for "that
tired feeling.M Should the prescription be
to buy golf clubs and spend a couple of
days a week on the links, the sceptic will
soon be convinced against his will that
he has been wrong. He finds that to be
come a successful golfer all worries and
cares must be left behind and every men
tal and physical power become concen
trated in the effort to strike the little
white ball. The Field says in part on
this theme ;
"It is in destroying the element of self
consciousness that golf as a medicine is
so valuable. It gives a complete rest to
the mind ; it switches the mental machin
ery on to another set of new revolutions,
and it exacts that there shall be in the
mind only one idea demanding concen
tration at the moment. The only ends to
be considered on the links are the correct
management of club and ball. The curi
ous thing is that it should have taken
modern medical men so long to find out
the virtues of golf as a medicine. They
recommend it nowadays practically with
out hesitation to many of their patients
greatly absorbed in business, in so do
ing many, no doubt, look upon it as a
pleasant method of giving a new form of
medical receipe ; but there are many pas
sages which can be quoted from old writ
ers of a hundred years ago on the laws of
health showing that the game was well
known then as one of the best medicines
in the pharmacopoeia.
Sir John Sinclair, in his "Code of
Health" published in the last century,
mentions several ball games whose prac
tice is good for health, and of golf he
says : "It is a diversion well calculated
for exercising the body and may always
be taken in such moderation as neither to
overheat nor fatigue."
"Mrs. Oliphant, the novelist, more
than thirty year ago made the medicinal
virtues of the game one of the principal
features of a chapter in one of her books.
She was writing of St. Andrews, and
one of the characters says: 'Twice
round the links in a day is the whole
duty of man; and one round maintains
him in that decent condition of moral re
spectability, falling short of excellence,
but far above mediocrity, which is in
some respects a more comfortable state
than that of supreme excellence itself.
The parish minister is made to declare :
I play my game everv day of my life
without its ever interfering with my du-
:ies as a parish minister. Play your
jame, and be thankful to Providence that
gives us a wholesome and innocent
imusement.'
"Golf as a medicine naturally enough
rawly enters into the calculations of the
young and vigorous. The middle aged
golfer, if he has passed through that
period, also looks back with brightened
memories to the days when he too got en
joyment out of the pastime of the links.
It takes them out in the open air, breeze
md sunshine when, perhaps, in less for
tunate circumstances of attraction, they
would sta' quiethr at home or take the
solitary and monotonous walk for healths
sake. The lonesome ramble is rarely
stimulating mentally, for it presents too
many temptations to lapse into' the
thoughts that are the constant compan
ions of the working hours. Golf, on the
other hand, forces a man out of his every
day preoccupations and reinvigorates
him by the charm and the witchery of its
own special chemistry.
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siir the sixteenth green, lay a ten to one shot
that it's Mr. Knight, and het on a sure thing!
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The Holly Inn is one of the most attractive hotels in the South. Since it wag
built in 1805, it has been necessary to enlarge it several times to meet the constantly
increasing demand. The interior is elegant, cheerful and tasteful. No modern con
venience is lacking. There are bath rooms, electric lights, steam heat and open
fireplaces. There is a call bell in every room, and all beds are furnished with best
hair mattresses. An orchestra furnishes fine concerts daily, and also provides for
dancing. The cuisine is unsurpassed. The waitresses are all white girls from the
North. Rooms for billiards and other games are provided in the hotel.
A. I. CREAMER, Manager.
The Harvard
PINEHURST, N. C.
TiPiLHURST.Ti.C2. inis recently completed hotel Is centrally located be.
tween The Carolina and The Holly Inn.
It is modern in every respect, having electric lights, steam heat and severa.
suites with bath and with its cottage annex and large dining room accommo
dates seventy-five guests.
The Cuisine is in charge of a competent chef, and the table service L
guaranteed satisfactory.
F. H. ABBOTT, Manager.
THE UPLANDS
BETHLEHEM, N. H.
F. f-i. ABBOTT, - Proprietor,
Address until May 1st, PINEHURST, N. C
Hotels Guilf ord-Benbooi,
GREENSBORO, N. C.
An ideal point for tourists to spend the night en route to Pinehurst. Two of the
most complete and best equipped hotels in the south, on the main line of the South
ern Railway, and a thirty minutes drive from the historic Guilford Battle Grounds
of Revolutionary fame.
Greensboro is a beautiful old southern city, has fine Opera House, beautiful
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hotels.
COBB & FRY.