Canadian Golfer, November, 1916
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n o s e i u q e t ‘ T 6 T 9 M g q e Co Investors 9 a m THOSE WHO, FROM TIME TO TIME, HAVE FUNDS REQUIRING u A INVESTMENT, MAY PURCHASE AT PAR B p A 9 s j DOMINION OF CANADA DEBENTURE STOCK O s o V ss IN SUMS OF $500 OR ANY MULTIPLE THEREOF. N ‘ V G yy I u Principal repayable 1st October, 1919. p V y N s Interest payable half-yearly, 1st April and lst October by cheque (free m of exchange at any chartered Bank in Canada) at therate of five per cent p e o o per annum from the date of purchase. I i jj o Holders of this stock will have the privilege of surrendering at par and d D a accrued interest, as the equivalent of cash, in paymert of any allotment U ) , made under any future war loan issue in Canada other than an issue of Y N Treasury Bills or other like short date security. Y G Proceeds of this stock are for war purposes only. I V N A commission of one-quarter of one per cent will be allowed to recog- nized bond and stock brokers on allotments made in respect of applications D O for this stock which bear their stamp. T For application forms apply to the Deputy Minister of Finance, Ottawa. AA H DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, OTTAWA CTOBER 7th, 1916 e p y o h e CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. II, No. 7 n aw FAN ZN = S44@f== ot Og e ‘The Fool” By Robert W. Service ‘But it isn’t playing the game,’’ he said, and he slammed his books away; “The Latin and Greek I’ve got in my head will do for a commoner day.”’ 8 ‘‘Rubbish!’’ I eried. ‘‘The bugle’s eall isn’t for lads from sehool,”’ a o D’ye think he would listen? Oh, not at all! So I called him a fool, o 8 a fool. | Nowthere’s his dog by his emptybed, and the flute he used to play, And his favorite bat but Dick he’s dead, somewhere in France, they say: Dick with his rapture of song and sun, Dick of the yellowhair, Dicky whose life had just begun, carrion-cold out there. Look at his prizes all in a row: surely a hint of fame. Nowhe’s finished with, nothing to show: Doesn’t it seem a shame? Look from the window! All you see was to be his one day: Forest and furrow, lawn andlea, and he goes and chucks it away. Throws it awayto die in the dark. Somebody sawhimfall, Part of him mud, part of him blood, the rest of him—not at all. And yet I'll bet he was never afraid, and he went as the best of ‘em go, For his hand was clenched on his broken blade, and his face was turned to the foe. AndI ealled him afool! how blind was |! Oh the cup of my (5 J grief’s abrim! F Will the Glory 0’ England ever die so long as we’velads like him? , 3 So long as we’ve fond and fearless fools, who, spurning fortune [P3f . and fame, Turn out with the rallying cry of their schools, intent on playing the game. A fool! Ah, no! He was more than wise, his was the proudest part, He died with the glory of faith in hisseyes, and the glory of love in his heart. And though there’s never a gravetotell, nor a cross to markhis fall, Thank God! we knowthat he ‘‘batted well’’ in the last great Gameofall. 900! ‘OO n(OO}):eter -:331(O0)F ee ee n . a e e a E [ ee Vol. 2 BRANTFORD, NOVEMBER, 1916 ‘ ‘ : @ r™ tion of the world. There are very Ganadian Golfer few ‘‘ehigibles’’ who have not donned Official] Organ Royal Canadian Golf Association khaki—there should be none after this Official Organ Ladies’ Canadian Golf Union Jast urgent appeal. The golf links in Published Monthly Canada are no place for the physically Ralph H. Reville - «= «» «= Editor fit of fighting age. Their place is at Vem Wepling. =.=. -- = Associate Editor the front where so many thousands of Mr. George 8S. Lyon, Toronto; Mr. J, T. Clark, golfers to-day are fighting and giving Toronto; Mr. T. G. Gray, Ottawa; Mr. T Black, Montreal; Mr. W. M. Reekie, Roches- up their lives so willingly and ungrudg ter, N.Y.; Mr. Brice 8. Evans, Boston; Con- tributing Editors. ingly for the safety and peace of future generations. As Sir Robert well says Ladies’ Golf Section edited by Florence L, Harvey “These last one hundred thousand men Subscription Price Three Dollars a Year may decide the war.’’ If eligible, or Bnterea at Post Office as Second Class Matter without a thoroughly honest and valid ~ Editorialand Business Office, Brantford, Canada excuse, your place is in the trenches, not on the course or in the club house. Toronto Office: Queen City Chambers, $2 Chureh H. EB. Smalipeice, Representative The Poets and ‘‘}}e Hmpire has always The Call for Sir Robert Laird Borden’s aleecai had poets to sing of the Another One clarton call for another Times prowess of the officer and Hundred Thousand one hundred thousand rank and file who have men to go Overseas to tuken part in the great wars, which make up Canada’s promised quota of have so indubitably marked Great Bri five hundred thousand fighting men tain’s world-wide rise and progress. To will not fall upon deaf ears or go un- come down to the last half century or heeded by unresponsive hearts. The so there was Pennyson during the youth and sinew of the Dominion will Crimea struggle with his immortal undoubtedly heed the summons and, ‘*Charge of the Light Brigade.’’ Then willingly and manfully fill the fearful during the South African embroglio gaps in the battle lines. Golfers as a came Kipling with his songs of ‘‘ daring class have responded in the past with deed.’’ And now during the greatest an alacrity that has been the admira- contliet of all time, there is Robert W 347 348 CANADIAN GOLFER Vol. II, No. 7 Service, our own Canadian Poet Laure- forget the cares of office and the curses ate, who from the trenches and within of his opponents. Only the ‘*Colonel”’ the trenches keeps us in touch alike (Roosevelt) abstains. ‘‘Not a man’s with the man from Whitechapel and game’’ was his contemptuous descrip- Kent and Devon; with the man from tion of golf. But he may yet be tempt- Australia and New Zealand; with the ed to beat his spear into a niblick.— man from Victoria and Halifax and the “The New York Evening Post.’’ man from the furthermost post of the And to these names might well be far-flung Empire, and tells us in prose added: Sir Robert Laird Borden, Sir and verse what he is doing and what he Thomas White, the Hon. Martin Bur- is saying. No finer contribution has rell, Sir George Perley, the Hon. J. D. ever been given us than ‘‘The Fool’’— Hazen, the Hon. J. D. Reid, the Hon. the wonderful pathetic and stirring Arthur Meighen—all members of the song which is reproduced in this issue Dominion Cabinet, not to mention the of the ‘‘Canadian Golfer.”’ Hon. Bonar-Law of the Imperial Min- The poem might very appropriately istry erstwhile Canadian and the Hon. have been dedicated in his younger Mr. Hanna of the Provincia) Govern- days to Major Gordon Southam of ment. Hamilton, perhaps the finest all round amateur athlete that Canada has pro- fer” The ‘‘Canadian Gol duced in the last decade. More than eeeRiaord eretoofthtehe a, ppeals to the ° leSaedaihn,g proficient and efficient in golf, in hoe- financial and business _ key, in football, in rackets, in cricket, ‘“Canadian’’ Golfer’’ men of Canada—men who of him it can well be said ‘‘he batted know and appreciate in well in the last great gameof all.’’ To their own businesses what a very hard the young widowand to the honoured proposition it is to-day to secure raw father and mother and brothers, so well material and finished products and known throughout the Dominion in what greatly enhanced prices are being journalistic, financial and sporting demanded and obtained for all classes spheres the heartfelt sympathy of of goods and merchandise. Perhaps in countless friends will go out. Major no one particular has there been such Southam fell trying to rescue a wound- a marked inerease in price as that in ed soldier of his Battery. To para- book papers. It is no exaggeration to phrase a well known quotation: say that they have advanced in value ‘*Nothing in his hfe, became him like the past year or so one hundred per the glorious leaving of it.’’ cent. or more. In Great Britain golf- ing papers to-day are being printed on Golf is now “War is the statesman’s No. 3 or newspaper print. In the the States- game, wrote the bitter man’s Game. States one of the leading golf journals poet of a hundred years has been forced to economize on its ago, but could he write it now? Would paper bills by reducing the weight he not have to admit that the states- some 40 Ibs. per ream. Many Canadian man’s game to-day is golf? Asquith, weeklies and mofithlies are doing the Lloyd George, Balfour give it as their same. favorite recreation. And American The business management of the public men simply could not live with- “Canadian Golfer’? some months ago out it.