Cleveland High School - Beacon Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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United States team. The match was won by the British team, led by Molly Gourlay. The great popularity of golf is largely due to the fact that it is a game in which old and young may join on equal footing. It can be enjoyed without strenuous periods of training, and does not require exceptional muscular development. It holds one s interest with the ever-recurring, and sometimes tantalizing, hope of self-improvement. Not the least of its attractions is the pleas- ant environment to be found on the golf course. A game which has endured through the centuries with an ever-increasing number of devotees must pos- sess inherent attractions which appeal strongly to the lover of outdoor sports. Clarice Brand and Neldarose Ott. s GOOD SPORTSMANSHIP I I loOD sportsmanship is largely a question of co-operative spirit A vj and decency in any contest or endeavor of our daily work and aii play- To compete fairly, play the game according to the rules. mB - and show good co-operation is the true spirit of sportsmanship. Hi;;;;;; ----. The element of courtesy and thoughtfulness of others is here truly expressed. Examples are found in every phase of amateur and professional sports. One of our most popular amateur sports, football, has such numerous techni- calities that the player must be ever on the alert to avoid breaking the rules of the game. A typical incident of good sportsmanship in a professional sport occurred in a championship golf match in which Walter Hagen was a par- ticipant. Removal of a twig from behind the ball caused it to oscillate. There was some doubt as to whether the ball had moved, but Hagen immediately called a stroke against himself although no official had seen the play. True sportsmanship trains the player of any game to shoot squarely in the greater game of life. Honesty, self-discipline, thoughtfulness and co- operation are all traits of character which may be developed by sports. The element of luck, which seems always present during the game of life, often produces signs of failure and discouragement, but persistent plugging and determination, the will to achieve, developed through good sportsmanship, help us to attain our ultimate goal. Paul Herriott. r Page Twenty-nine

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GOLF I i HE origin of golf seems to be wrapped in mystery, the Ifonor apparently lying between Scotland and the Netherlands. The game is very ancient and has an interesting history. The name itself has had a variety of spellings. It has been known variously as gauf and goufe, as gaoff and gaulf. as gowff and gowlf. The last is probably the genuine old pronunciation, which gives our modern name. The word is thought to be derived from the Dutch kolf. meaning a club. The first actual appearance of the game seems to have been in Holland, and there are many old Dutch pictures which show the game of golf being played. By the middle of the fifteenth century, the game had become very popular in Scotland. In 1457, an act of the Scotch Parliament decreed that ••futeball and gofT be utterly cryit doune and nocht usit, so that the nation ' s military standing might not be impaired through neglect of archery. This and other laws were made, but to no avail, for golf was not abandoned. In 1503. when firearms were introduced, the actions against golf-playing ceased. James the Fifth was very partial to the Ancient and Royal Game of Gofl. and his daughter, Mary Stuart, was an ardent golfer. James the Sixth and his son. Charles the First, declared it their pleasure to have their people play golf on Sunday after divine services. During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the development of golf was marked. Many golf societies were formed at an early date in Scotland. In 1834 William the Fourth became the patron of St. Andrew ' s, which was at that time, as it is even now. the most famous seat of the game. It was not. however, until the middle of the eighties that golf became popular in the United States. The first golf club in this country was established at Yonkers, New York, in 1888. Interest in golfing has grown to such an extent that we now have inter- national competition, as well as competition between schools, clubs and states. The Walker Cup, given by George Walker, the former president of the United States Golf Association, is competed for by teams from Great Britain and the United States in alternate years. Bobby Jones. Francis Ouimet, George Voight, and Jess Sweetser. all have represented the United States in these matches. International play for women was first started in Sunning- ' - il ' rfb dale. England, in May. 1930. Miss G. Collett headed the Page Twenty-eight

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i. i THE ORIGIN OF FOOTBALL Football, one of the oldest forms of sports, is said to have been played more than seven hundred years before the Christian Era. In Isaiah, Chap- ter twenty-two, may be found this passage, He will turn and toss thee like a ball, which shows that some sort of ball game was played at that time. In the Odyssey of Homer this statement is made, Then having bathed and anointed well with oil, they took their mid- day meal upon the river banks and anon when satisfied they played the game of ball. The word Harpaston of the Greek language is defined as a game with a ball. Greek scholars say it was a game similar to modern Rugby. Harpaston was one of the favorite games of the Spartan youths. It was played on a rectangular field marked with side, goal, and center lines. The players were not limited in number but were equally divided. The object of the game was to pass, kick, or carry the ball to the opposite goal line. There were few rules, and the game seems to have been played with little order or method. The Romans had a game similar to football, called Follis. About 28 B. C, the Emperor Augustus selected an unknown philosopher to revise the rules of Follis. The code of rules submitted form the basis of modern football. The Greek name Harpaston disappeared after a while, and Calcio was used instead. Calcio was played on a square field marked by side, goal, and center hnes. The goals were marked by posts. There were twenty-seven men on each team. The game was played as a mimic battle, with Roman mihtary tactics. Each team had fifteen forwards, five defensive backs, four halfbacks, and three fullbacks. A score was made by carrying or kicking the ball over the goal line. Two fouls were equivalent to one goal. Because of winds, sides were changed after each goal. The football used at the time is beheved to have been made of skin cleverly sewed and filled with moss. In 1314, King Edward II of England for- bade the playing of football on the ground that it created a disturbance, and imprisonment was the penalty for playing it. But in spite of the King ' s law against the playing of this game, football became so popular in England that it threatened to submerge archery. In 1650, foot- ball was regarded as a national institution in Page Thirty