A Blatt* to Golf

The National Review (British conservative weekly) printed this sour comment: " We regard a game at which the players never get out of a walk as unworthy of an athletic nation and as a miserable exercise for able-bodied men in the prime of youth and health and strength. There are few more depressing spectacles than that of a large crowd of the flower of both sexes watching two Herculean youths lying on a putting green endeavoring to ascertain the easiest means of poking a stationary little ball into a relatively large tin pot.

" For everybody who for any reason can't run, golf is an unimpeachable occupation. For responsible statesmen it is the best, and we always rejoiced when in far-off Coalition days we read of the prodigious putting performed at Cannes or elsewhere by Mr. Lloyd George, M. Briand, Lord Riddell and others of that gallant and now deconsidered galaxy of talent."

* Blatt = slang noun of unknown origin, meaning rebuff, censure, Insult.