Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 312, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1917 — GOLF GAINS IN POPULARITY [ARTICLE]

GOLF GAINS IN POPULARITY

Sport Has Taken Firm Grip Upon All Classes of People—Demands Best Brain and Muscle. It is an Indication of hopeless prt> vincialismfor anybody to deride the game of golf nowadays. This sport has taken such a firm hold upon all classes of people, it has become so universal and its popularity Is so permanently founded thatthe jibes and wheezes of dull wits no longer have any force. Only the hopelessly ignorant now characterize it as “sissy?’ It, is, In fact, a full-blooded, strong-bodied and absorb--ing sport that demands the best brain and muscle that can be put into it. Golt is really becoming a close competitor with baseball for the title o* the national game.—Pacific Golf ant Motor.