The Golf Fiend

• 1910
• Other, Comedy

The golf fiend with his bag of sticks and bag of tricks is a funny person, but Jones was funnier because he was a golf fiend without being much of a player, and he persisted in driving at a ball no matter whose property the gutta-percha object happened to be. The other players objected when the ardent Jones knocked their spheres off the tees, and passers-by objected when he knocked the balls into their eyes. It may be seen that Jones was not the most popular man on the links by a great deal, and the more he hung about the more he got himself disliked. On the street it was pretty much the same, and there were a lot of people who thought they would enjoy nothing quite so much as using Jones' head for a golf ball and a sledge-hammer for a driver. It was not their fault that someone did not carry out this program, but Jones was a good runner and he managed to keep ahead of them until their tempers had cooled down somewhat and they were not quite so bloodthirsty. At any rate Jones does not play so much golf now and there is a reason. Give a look at the reason.