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...Republican state chairman. The report rehashed material about Barry that has been printed before. U.S. Government investigators, who pronounced Barry "clean" of criminal connections, feel that he is getting something of a bum rap. Over the years, it has been reported that he occasionally palled around with gangsters on golf courses or in gambling casinos, and he once intervened to get a lighter sentence for a convicted bookmaker. The series added a little new information; e.g., in 1973 Barry wrote a sponsoring letter for a man with criminal connections who sought membership in a posh California club...
...peruse the headlines of the Enquirer, an infinitely more respectable tabloid which boasts "the largest circulation of any paper in America." There is an account of escape from a bullet-riddled helicopter flying through the air, followed by the author's religious conversion. (Shades of Chuck Colson!) Then golf star Gary Player's "recent brush with death" when he was almost struck by lightning on a South African golf course. (Presumably he avoided other unimportant violence in the area, which the space-conscious Enquirer issue fails to mention: like terrorist violence, Soweto riots, and other events irrelevant to our lives...
...shows men's lacrosse and women's tennis to be the strongest suits in the Crimson deck. Baseball and Radcliffe lax should enjoy super rebounding seasons. Harvard tennis won't miss Jack Barnaby or Gary Reiner all that much. And then there's Alex Vik, El Sid, and the golf team...
Darwin truly was a devotee of the old school and although the selections in every way retain their infectious appeal, it is best to relish Mostly Golf in the Pickwickian sense. One is transported into a long forgotten and a more idyllic world that belies reality. Mostly Golf conveys the indian summer tranquillity of Victorian England before the First otherwise sleepy hamlets turned out for cricket matches and the landed aristocracy played over the heath and whins of sedate seaside links...
...rounds chronicled by Darwin will not come back but in Mostly Golf we at least get a vivid if all too fleeting glimpse of the pageantry and splendor that belonged to the likes of James Braid, Bobby Jones, the olive-skinned Gene Sarazen with his Cheshire Cat grin, and "the Haig" with his oriental eyelids and brilliantined hair bestriding the fairways of Muirfield. For as the Scotch have been wont to say since those colorful days of James II: they were all "grand gowfers a', nane better...