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and other interesting obstacles on the way. His record has been open to question. William T. Burgess crossed in 1911 after seventeen failures and there are those who say he failed on the eighteenth occasion. Annette Kellerman, the Hon. Mrs. Arthur Hamilton, various other Europeans, and two cronies of Sullivan, have tried the feat of late years and have consumed gallons of orange-juice and oil to no avail.

Some Lorelei of the channel is bound sooner or later to beckon the aspiring longdistance swimmer. It is a heart-breaking task, there is no gallery to egg one on, no one is entertained or edified, the winner is not received in Calais by the Premier and President; a few hard Norman seamen are on hand to cast a cynical eye at the finish.

Most people will agree that a man strong enough to swim the channel is strong enough not to have to try. Doubtless they see more point in Georges Barbot's feat of crossing in his flying flivver in half an hour at a total expense of 40 cents. Possibly pride drives the swimmer on, or he may be subscribing to one of these will-development courses. He is entitled, in any event, to point to the vast futility of innumerable other pursuits of mankind. And of course $5,000 is $5,000.

Carbis A. Walker's feat in swimming 32 miles across Lake Erie, after being in the water just 20 hours and 15 minutes, appeals to the editorial imagination of the Troy Record. The editor observes:

Walker now goes down to fame as the man who first swam across one of our inland seas. Only an athlete in splendid physical condition could accomplish the feat. It was necessary for the swimmer to be in the water day and night. While a power boat and a rowboat were used as a convoy, the physical and mental strain which Walker underwent must have been tremendous.

One might assert that such an attempt was foolhardy; that it teaches nothing and only offers an exhibition of human physical endurance. But there is something in this performance which is likely to be remembered by every lover of skill, endurance and grit. Many hardy men have endeavored to That perswim the English Channel. Any

formance is considered a man's job. one who crossed the channel in one of the little steamers plying between English and French ports knows something about the troubles any swimmer might be called upon to combat. Rough water, tides and currents must be studied in a manner to enable the athlete to make even a showing of getting anywhere in the channel.

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Lake Erie may not present as many drawbacks as the English Channel. It is, however, a fickle sheet of water. Walker tells of the difficulties he faced. "We were without a compass," he says, "and during the day followed a course directed by the We depended upon the moon and stars at night. We sighted Lorain lighthouse at 9:30 at night. The battle was the toughest from there in. I had to fight a choppy sea, and here seemed to be a strong current that wanted to pull me to the west." When Walker reached land his legs were partially and temporarily paralyzed. This conquest of Lake Erie is really a remarkable sporting event. The man who swam across the lake showed remarkable

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GOLF AS AN ART

OLF is not, in the strict sense, a game. Golf is not played for fun, exercise, or recreation." These words sound like the rankest sort of heresy and ike the vindictive mutterings of some disgruntled "dub." They are uttered, however, by an enthusiastic and proficient player, none other than the President of the California Golf Association, James A. Mackenzie. Writing in Pacific Golf and Motor (San Francisco), he undertakes to tell us what golf isn't, in order to lay the groundwork for his main purpose. main purpose is to protest vigorously against the suggestion that golf courses be altered so that the average player may have a better chance to turn in a respectable score.

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Hitherto most efforts have been confined to making golf courses easier for the average man's pocketbook, but now, it seems, there is a movement on foot to make them easier for his athletic limitations as well. Mr. Mackenzie has no sympathy for what The calls the principle of "mediocre courses for mediocre players." Naturally, he wouldn't have, since he defines golf as "both an art and 2 sport," in which the chief glory comes, not from achievements, but from the very striving after an unattainable goal. He opens his article by saying, ironically:

When the bourgeois spirit becomes the touchstone of art and the philosophy of sport is that results alone count, we may expect to find golf architecture based upon the principle of "mediocre courses for mediocre players." All holes will then be evelers, and, upon the theory that words are used to conceal thoughts, golf courses will be constructed to make all games equal. In the meantime, and until course construction can catch up with this new ideal, esort might be had to tho ladies' tees, or the cups might readily be enlarged.

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Complaint is made in certain quarters hat courses affording a searching test of he highest class play are "too hard" for he average golfer and unfairly penalize is game. It is suggested that a supreme st of the great player's skill means a lace of torment and disappointment for he rank and file who pay the bills and make he game go. A true appreciation of the pirit of the game should show this to be complete misconception. It is more. t is a libel upon the spirit of modest and Enerous sportsmanship which is the chief aracteristic of the average golfer and hich is so essential to success at the game. The sheer fact is, and practically all golf layers have observed it, that virtually all le-bodied males prefer to play the "hard" purses. Indeed, who has not observed the women players

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for the short tees? They show themselves
so imbued with the true spirit of the game
as to want to be aiming as high as the best
men players, regardless of their physical
handicaps and mounting scores. For this
increase in their scores they evidently find
consolation in the philosophy that all
things are relative and that the only true
measure of their accomplishment is with ref-
erence to the highest standard of the game.

A player who manages to get around his
own more or less adequate home course in
95 may be at first somewhat startled and
chagrined at the score he achieves at
Pine Valley, the National or Lido. If he
be that rare type who prefers to indulge
his illusions rather than do battle with the
giants, he will deny that this is golf. An-
nouncing himself as that epitome of
mediocrity, the "average golfer," he will
declare the course unfair to his game and
confine himself to those "easy" courses,
which are more flattering to his self-esteem.

But if he be that true type of average American golfer, will he show the measure of his sporting spirit by admitting that the going is too rough? He will not. He will invoke the shades of Willie Park and Tom Morris and carry on with the slogan, "the bigger they are the harder they fall." For every true devotee of any sport or art there can be but one standard of attainment, and that the highest. Every sportsman worthy of the name wants to be at least aiming as high as the best.

It is perhaps just here that some fail to discern a certain distinction. The essence of a competitive game is the winning. The ideal of the playing ground is standardized fairness with the elimination of all chance.

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rather both an art and a sport. It is an
art insofar as it is a continual striving to-
ward an unattainable standard of excellence
irrespective of any competitive aspect. It
is a sport in that this striving is carried on,
not on any set or standard playing-ground,
but in an ever varying environment. As
the noblest of all sports, the essence of golf
is the striving, not the winning. Fairness
to a player's game has no place in the ideal
of a golf course. The element of variety
and sporting chance, without which no
pastime can have a permanent appeal, is
afforded only through the medium of the
course. The opportunity for the standard
of play to improve is only as the golf course
presents a standard of perfection not con-
sistently attainable. In a competitive
game improvement comes from the player
contending with players superior to him-
self. In golf it is the course which must
typify such an opponent.

Can one conceive a real sportsman de-
liberately choosing to play an opponent
whom he could readily defeat? Yet this
would but reflect the attitude of the golfer
who takes satisfaction in lowering his score
through the course being made easier.
Has the average golfer a soul so mean as to
view low scoring as an end in itself? Is
there a golfer worthy of the name who, in
order to indulge the delusion that he can
score in the nineties, would condemn all
his aspiring fellow golfers to play on a
mediocre course incapable of bringing
out the best in any player's game. Does
not the true disciple of any sport or art
take deep satisfaction, however vicarious,
in the development of its standards? The
hallmark of every true sportsman is a
sense of solidarity with his fellow-sportsmen,

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and the essence of this is the furtherance of the best ends of the sport rather than his dividual and selfish relation to it.

The chief lure of golf lies in its peculiarly ndividualistic appeal. The average golfer not class-conscious as such. Large as scores may be, he is aware of possessing rtain potentialities little suspected by golfing companions. He is confident at, given time and opportunity, these will lift him out of the ruck. Even now he ceives his game to differentiate him from the herd in at least some small parculars. He feels no affinity for those who go around in figures equal to the scores he makes at present but which are so soon to be outdone. In golf, as in art, there is

such thing as a solidarity of dubs. When hope ceases to spring within the man breast and when mediocrity is the measure of achievement, the average golfer will pronounce his performances as the aly "real golf" and demand golf courses designed for dubs.

Golf is not played for fun, exercise or recreation. It yields all of these in abunlant measure, but its compelling appeal is le to the fact that every round is a new adventure, calling upon the player's poise, ourage and mental stamina. All will eadily admit their physical limitations, ut who will confess to a want of those elenents of the psychic man of which golf affords a supreme test? In this realm very golfer feels that no man should be is peer and that all things are within the Fange of his achievement. It is conscious

ess of his failure in this sphere which isits upon the unhappy golfer that deression and chagrin which are so peculiarly haracteristic of disappointing performnees at golf.

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record. I won't deny that. But I shall make no predictions of doing as well again. I have no ambition to become a home run specialist, which often amounts to raising high flies that drop just beyond fences. I am not that kind of a hitter. I usually hit square on the nose and the ball travels on a line. Homers are only incidents of such hitting, a little longer singles, that's all.

"There has been a lot said about different ball-fields helping the home-run hitters. I think that is true. It is certainly true of the high fly which the ordinary outfielder would get if the fence didn't stop him. But at the risk of blowing my own horn, I will say that I honestly believe that I was less indebted to the fences for home runs last season than a lot of other players. I do not deny that some of the home runs I made last year would have been caught if the fence hadn't been there, but on the other hand the fences spoiled not a few homers for me. A ball hit on the line which strikes the fence would generally be a home run on an open field. Striking the fence, however, it bounds back so that the batter is lucky if he makes second base on it

"I have often thought that I would like to play on an open field. Frankly I believe my average would hold up with the rest, home runs as well as singles. The outfielders always lay back for me. On an open field they would probably lay back still farther. That would give a fine territory between infield and outfield to drive hot singles. And as for homers, a ball hit on the line between outfielders, provided it is going fast enough, can not be returned until a fast man has rounded the bases."

Many people, says Mr. Hornsby, have wondered how he could hit the ball so hard. He explains:

"I suppose I am compared to Babe Ruth, but I weigh one hundred and seventy pounds, hard bone and muscle, which certainly carries me out of the lightweight class. Weight isn't everything in hitting. It isn't everything even in the boxing ring. Fitzsimmons was an awful hitter, altho he weighed less than I do.

"Other things being equal, height and weight are important to a slugger. But other things are not often equal. I am not the strongest man on the diamond by a good deal, but I don't need to be. I have strength where it is necessary to have it, and that is in my arms. Big burly batters who swing from their shoetops with every ounce of weight behind their blows, look very impressive at bat, and when they do connect I won't deny that the ball travels. But they strike out very often and are pretty much at the mercy of a clever pitcher with a slow curve. They are specialists in long hitting. I have no ambition to be a specialist in any kind of hitting. I want to hit all kinds of pitching hard, and I have practised on all kinds of pitching until I believe I can honestly say that I care very little whether a pitcher gives me a curve, a fast ball or a slow ball. Any one of them will travel like blazes if you hit it right.

"I rather like slow-ball pitching. It gives you good practise in timing your swing. The heavy lungers get crossed up on a slow ball because they start to swing before the ball is half-way to them. They can't judge the ball very well and generally hit too soon. My batting system is to be prepared for anything. If a slow ball comes, you can feel

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