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It is time somebody did, and ladies participate in the same, •for our men are showing unmistakable then nothing less is his duty than the signs of careless degeneracy, to give strictest regard to every detail. Yet it the mildest name, and the gossip of I have seen prominent players at great an old golfer may attract their atten- public championships, where they were tion to their duty. Of course, we all amidst strangers and must have known Tecognize that the ethics of dress is they would be the observed of all ob- largely a question of latitude and lon- servers, flaunt about all day long gitude and environment. Dress in fragments of suits which would which is perfectly becoming both to disgrace a sea fisherman on a brass TTien and women at Manhattan Beach, band and free beer excursion to the would be shockingly scandalous, not Cholera banks. Trousers ten sizes too to say unlawful, in Central Park. It large and exceedingly shabby sus- is the same the world over, and the penders over very questionable shirts. subject needs no laboring; but therein A sight to make the angels weep! And lies the root of the question, and it yet these men were in good social po- Tiehooves every golfing man to con- sitions, and would have stood in the sider every time he dons his golfing pillory rather than have appeared at •clothing what is the occasion for which a ball in their own social circles in • lie is making his toilet. If it is a stag Prince Albert coats! They had not party of his particular cronies, at his the excuse of old Pursell, the Scotch •own club, where he knows no strangers, landlord of the inn at Aberlady, who or ladies, will be present, he may, if he always appeared on the courses of Gul- feels so inclined, but I would not ad- lane in his shirt sleeves "that it was his vise him to, take a certain amount 'full dress.' ' To tell the truth, the of liberty, but if he is about to betake jolly landlord had superlatively fine Copyright, 1905, by ARTHUR POTTOW. All rights reserved. \ 134 THE GOSSIPS OF AN OLD GOLFER SIXTEENTH CENTURY. EIGHTEENTH. EARLY NINETEENTH. THE GOSSIPS OF AN OLD GOLFEK. 135 linen, and it was his best. He had open championship in the Fall of 19°3 made an honest effort to look smart. which I will refrain from naming, In the days of old, golfing dress, es- where the greater proportion of the pecially in Scotland from laird to cad- twoscore professionals taking part in die, was a matter of great pride, as it ought to have been ordered off the many a fine oil portrait of the end of course. A shabbier, untidier, dirtier, the Eighteenth Century testifies, and unbecomingly dressed set of golfers even amongst ourselves special uni- could not be found, search the whole forms ranked higher, much higher, ten world round; yet every one of these years ago than they do to-day. I men when imported were patterns of should not be surprised if there were neatness. If those of their home links more scarlet golfing uniform coats could have seen they would have felt with club collars in the second-hand as I did—hot with shame and disgust! old clothes shops of Seventh avenue, This is not random talk. Not only in the metropolis, than will be seen on have I a memory of the early pro- all the metropolitan club links in a fessionals, but I have a commonplace season. I saw three hanging in sepa- book in which are many pictures of rate "old clo'' windows there last the early days of American golf. One Summer, and I don't recall that num- is now open before me from Leslie's ber on club members' backs in all my Weekly of October, 1904, in which year's peregrinations. "the old professional" is given as a Of course I can hear the easy way model of what was correct in costume, out of it, saying: "Yes, uniforms and it is a picture which it is a pleas- are all very well in England and Scotland, but look at our climatic con- ditions in Summer." Well, I have looked at them for years, and borne them, and I never found it necessary to tear off a light, short flannel jacket and roll my sleeves up to my arm- pits, and undo every button down the front of my shirt. Ladies don't do it and they survive the toil and moil of the hottest day without a murmur. It is not only indecorous in many men, but, in some positively indecent. I have seen men exposing thin, bare, hairy, perspiration - covered chests, even on gala days, with a bravado which would hardly be excusable on board a yacht of Corinthians, ten miles from land. Yet no officer of the club gave them even the gentlest of hints. If I wanted to give one instance in bulk, showing the evil consequences of this laxity, and its influence, I should only have to recall to mind an GOLFEKS IN 17i>0. 13G THE GOSSIPS OF AN OLD GOLFER. ure to look back to. I turn over the next page and there meets me a set of illustrations from photos by Sarony, of New York, made for the first issue of Golfing, May, 1895, of Willie Park, Jr., who had then recently arrived. In tvery one of them he is the very pink of fashion and the mould of form. We have fallen upon evil days since then, and many professionals are the shock- ing examples resultant.