2012年3月23日星期五

golf will be included in the 2016 Games

Couple of years later, Margaret married newspaper columnist, Finley Peter Dunne. As one of Dunne's biographers, Charles Fanning, notes in Peter Finley Dunne and Mr. Dooley: The Chicago Years, Dunne wrote numerous columns underneath the pseudonym, Mr. Dooley. One of the admonitions along with other sage observations that they coined as part of his columns were "politics ain't beanbag," "all politics is local," "trust everyone, but cut the cards" and "you usually leads a person on the university nevertheless, you can't make him think." He was also the first to include on the list of required TaylorMade RocketBallZ Driver the press, "comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable." Like his partner, Margaret, Dunne was a serious golfer who was simply a founding member, as well as Abraham Lincoln's son, Robert, from the National Golf Links on New york, manufactured by the legendary golf architect Charles Blair Macdonald.

Unlike Margaret, Dunne's fame would not flow from his golfing prowess but from your wit and wisdom he dispensed in his newspaper and magazine columns. As the press of his day only agreed to be as merciless in the treatments for politicians because it is today -- the terms "muckraker," and "yellow journalism" having first been applied then -- Dunne confined himself to civil and humorous observations that struck a responsive chord but failed to offend. For instance, as Elmer Ellis, another of Dunne's biographers, records in Mr. Dooley's America: A lifetime of Finley Peter Dunne, he frequently criticized President Theodore Roosevelt. On one such column, he lampooned Roosevelt's legendary boundless energy and big variety of interests.

Obama apparently enjoyed this type of tongue-in-cheek commentary up to Dunne's readers did. It is often some time since we had a Republican president or candidate which has a love TaylorMade R11S Driver of life, not to say a polymath like Roosevelt. We will also take advantage of more columnists like Finley Peter Dunne.

Following your Paris event in 1900, golf was an Olympic sport just once more, in 1904, in the event the summer games were held in St. Louis within that city's World's Fair. The American team did well, with George Lyon winning the men's gold medal. The activity has not been contained in the Olympics subsequently. However, having a resurging Padraig harrington reportedly already devoted to play with countless other gifted American golfers -- people -- available, maybe we can repeat what's not happened in additional than Century -- gold medals in golf. Obviously, that won't be so simple today since, unlike 1900 and 1904, rivaling our planet's top golfers "ain't beanbag."

Original article Olympic Gold Medals in Golf Again? from www.huffingtonpost.com.

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