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a perfect target and a year later a huge
brown bear in Alaska looked at me
quietly while I a hundred yards
away, while I felt humbly and
never towarded a train. I can recall
dozens of other instances in various
parts of the world where I have lost
gaming by the merest chance and
every one furnishes as much mental
agony at the agent moment
as if it had happened
yesterday. True, I remember my good
shirts only successful hunts but
they don't eradicate my failures.
In golf other sport my mental
processes do not act in quite a little
way. In golf I can see me
every drive or skillful approach will
land out a dozen poor strokes and
send me to the club house as
happy as though I had played every
hole in Vogue.
But I think it is that very margin
between success and failure that puts
nothing above all other sports in my
is one of the greatest fascinations which
golfing holds for me. That, and this
never ending hope which "springs eternal
in the human breast." One can always
be sure expects that the next hill up