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.
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