THE PINEHURST OUTLOOK
others lay prone on the ground and tried
to peer between cracks in the living wall
others got tangled up in the rope and
rolled ignominiously in the sand bunkers
in fact the links presented one wild scene
of confusion. Too much cannot be said
in praise of the council of the Troon Golf
Club, who did their utmost to remedy the
matter, but it was a hopeless undertaking
The crowd was of such enormous propor
tions that it was simply impossible to im
pose any strong check upon it. It is un
doubtedly an amusing experience to look
back upon, but at the time it was by no
means so amusing. This is generally the
case, however, as one very rarely grasps
the full force of a funny situation until
the whole thing is over.
THE CAMERA FIEND.
A frequent source of amusement to
scratch and plus golfers is the way in
which they are often regarded on small
out-of-the-way links. The local talent is
not perhaps of a very high caliber so
when one of these swells with a big repu
tation arrives upon the scene he or she is
regarded as a perfect marvel. Every
stroke is applauded with wild enthusiasm,
the great one can do no wrong, and if any
one is sufficiently bold to criticize, he
only dare do so with bated breath. The
scratch player enjoys it thoroughly, but
at the same time feels a regular fraud
knowing quite well that he is by no
means the seventh wonder of the world,
but only a very ordinary golfer on a par
with 20 or 30 others. It is a great event,
however, in the club annals, and the
youthful geniuses of the village model
their style on that of the great player,
and kittens and puppies innumerable are
honored by being christened with the
magic name.
Another amusing incident of the game
is the camera fiend. Now-a-days nine
people out of ten carry cameras, and al
though it sometimes becomes a nuisance,
it often gives rise to funny incidents. To
be entreated piteously to pose for a stroke
is very flattering perhaps, but when the
request also comes to be sure and look at
the camera instead of at the ball the
golfer feels it is time to draw the line.
Also when a- snap-shooter takes up his po
sition directly in a line for the hole in
blissful ignorance that he is in imminent
peril of his life, one feels imperatively
that some remonstrance must be made
even at the risk of hurting his feelings.
These, photographs when reproduced in
the illustrated newspapers are not always
a joy, in fact frequently very much the
reverse, but those who go in for reputa
tions have to put up with discomforts.
The photographer is one of the many
types of spectators to be seen in a large
gallery. lie hurries along with his ca
mera under his arm trying to secure a good
point of vantage, with the sun in the
proper place and everything satisfactory,
only unfortunately he is often bitterly
disappointed by some untoward circum
stance, such as the crowd pressing hope
lessly in front, or the players giving up
the hole before reaching the green. He
is never discouraged, however, but always
comes up smiling again ready to rush to
the next favorable position. Another
well known figure on the links is the re
porter, who plods steadily round with
large notebook ready at hand to make co
pious notes of the different strokes.
SPECTATORS AND THE BEGINNERS.
Then there are the anxious relatives,
some flurried and worried, murmuring
why, oh why, was such a stroke made,
or how could E be so silly as to miss
such a short putt ; others calm and self-
contained on the surface, not displaying
much feeling, but probably in an inward
ferment. There are the partisans of each
side taking a keen interest in the game
and exerting their will power to the ut
most to make their favorite win. There
are those who have no keen interest in
either side but dispassionately judge the
players on their merits and are keenly
critical of the method in which each shot
is played. A motley crew indeed, but all
alike absorbed in the game, watching the
progress of each stroke witli the keenest
interest.
To turn to the more general types or
classes of golfers. First and foremost
comes the beginner, who is struggling
through the weary weeks of his appren
ticeship. Plunged either in the depths
of despair or raised to the summit of
bliss, the type is very familiar and one
often wonders at the patience displayed
by these novices and at their steady per
severance through every kind of discour
agement and difficulties. After the first
few months they begin to take a keen in
terest in golf literature and read with
avidity every word that is published on
the subject, opening the newspaper in the
morning at the golf column, and collect
ing magazines and books of instruction of
every description. They assimilate in
struction eagerly, by reading and watch
ing good golf, that is to say the really
keen and interested beginners do so, and
they are always on the lookout for advice
and counsel. There are a few who are
content simply to play for something to
do, who do not take the trouble to im
prove themselves but dragon in the same
old way, not conquering bad habits, but
simply struggling round the links and
trusting to luck to carry them through
victorious. These, however, are very
much in the minority, and the keen be
ginner is far the more frequently to be
met with.
The most tiresome form of golfer is the
egoist. He is so full of his own play that
lie can neither think nor talk of anything
else. If you play a round with him, he
recapitulates all his strokes of the previ
ous round, and points out places from
which at some other period he has made
magnificent strokes. He does not grasp
the fact that he is boring his listener
lorribly, but goes steadily on recounting
story after story until one longs to hit
him over the head with a niblick. The
pleasure of golf is largely in being able to
retail the events of a round to a sympa
thetic friend, but there is moderation in
ill things, and the egoist is quite beyond
the pale Mary E. L. llazlet, in Wash
ington Stcir.
CLUIl CIIAJIIJOAIII I ft HOOT.
Annual old JVIfdal lisfol Shoot
Taken Place IVext Tudaj.
The second annual Club Championship
Tournament of the Target Pistol Club
begins Tuesday next, and is open to all.
The event will be 50 shots at 50 yards,
scratch, with gold medals for both men
and women.
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