Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1916 — THINKS GOLF IS BENEFICIAL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THINKS GOLF IS BENEFICIAL

Jack Coombs of Brooklyn Dodgers, Says Game Helps Ball Player in Securing Control. “I cannot agree with these men who say golf is bad for a ball player,” says Jack Coombs of the Brooklyn Dodgers. “It helps him more than an ordinary man realizes. One of the greatest assets of the game is absolute control of oneself, in which confidence plays an Important part. Thus, the mind being under control, one thinks of the importance resting upon him. There only is one thought —succeed. “It is true the swing in golf is far different from that used in baseball. There are few ball players, however, who do not bring that stroke of their profession into golf. If you will look back to the games I pitched for the Athletics on Mondays, you will notice from the box scores that my batting was far superior to that on other days. I played golf every Sunday, rain or shine, and as I often said to

the boys, ‘That ball looked as big as a pumpkin.’ Whether golf playing the day before had anything to do with it or not I dare not say. Being a bug on golf, iny own opinion is formed.”

Jack Coombs.