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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1914)
unday Bee PART TWO EDITORIAL PAGES ONE TO TEN AT3 FT PART TWO SOCIETY PAGIAJ ONE TO TEN JLjLiLV v VOL. XIjIV NO. J). OMAHA, SUNDAY MOIiXIXd, ATKU'ST 10, 1014. sixniiK copy five cents. r Omaha. 0MA t K w. . iMiiini - n By Edith Thomas. NCE a golfer always a golfer," la an old slogan, and after careful observance at the different country clubs around Omaha, I believe In this old saying. It Is like tangoing, the one step and the hesitation waltzes popular with all ages. The youthful caddies get so fascinated with the game and their young minds are so con centrated on it that they forget to be mischievous, ind during vacation and even during the school fear,, the caddie's mother at least knows where he lb, and the little fellow is pretty apt to be in good iompany. You will find men, women and children coax ing the tantalizing golf ball into the elusive hole. Among the younger promising players I have noticed on the course are Harkness Kountze, Charley Allison and Tom Kinsler. These youthful athletes, not yet old enough to be In college, play a remarkably good name, and I doubt not but that they muy yet be a 6econd Francis Ouimet or Chick Evans. The younger society girls have taken up the tame rather reluctantly, staying more closely to their tennis game, but this year with an excellent teacher at hand they are making remarkable head way. Almost any morning on the Country' club course you will find Miss Louise Dinning, Miss C'w jr'L. ft ft ' , i , i ' i, ? ; ' - -'i r. I r-, s Mildred Hutler, Miss Daphne refers. Miss Gladyk Teters, young Mrs. Harold Pritchett. Miss Isabel Vlnsonhaler, who Is still In school, and a numbei 3f others of the younger set. The Misses Peters clung to their tennis game persistently . until this winter when they went to Palm Heaoh. "Why, we had to learn to play golf, for every one else was doing It," said Miss Daphne, so she started In earnestness, and carried off the prize for the women's golf handicap match at the Country club this year. Omaha is justly proud of Mrs. E. H. Sprague, who holds the woman's championship for Ne braska, and who has made an excellent showing in a number of the western tournaments held in Chicago, never falling to o.allfy. " Mrs. Silver and Mrs. Karl Llnlnger will meet Mrs. Bruoo Moffatt and Mrs. Tubbs all of the Omaha Women Golfers' association and together with Mrs. Spruguo will enter the western open championship for women on the Hinsdale course near Chicago. There is something so dignified about the Scottish game that one rarely soes any cartoons or any Jokes concerning it. The first one that I re member hearing was when the inimitable colored comedians, Williams and Walker, were playing to gether. The ' dapper little Walker Immaculately dressed and carrying his cane says to Bert Wil liams, of "I-May-Bo-Crazy-Dut-I-Alnt-No-Fool" famn, "I think I will play a game of golf." "What kind of a game is golf?" asks the lanky comedian. ' Walker says, "You play It this way: take your ball to the teeing grounds " "Ah think ah likes coffee grounds bettah," says Williams, and the game Is off. - ' 1 7 V, i ):. .s&..kTT:rj: : "jry ) i . .; i ..viiii(liinni amfrjt? 7 s 1 ; I f If :;; v )j: n v - : ' ,-. f '" ; I ! t Mrs.Bpuce TIofTatt , Mws Myrne Gilchrist, Mr.Jolin Bain. . ' . ,k .