Dear Beechnut: Why do I call you a beechnut? Because it’s the only nut
older than a chestnut. What do you mean in 1920 by trying to hold me
answerable for what George Duncan and I thought in 1909? On golf we are
like Art J. Balfour in politics—of whom you may have heard, although you
would not approve of his follow through. We have no settled convictions.
We must expand with the exigencies of modern golfomania.
You know yourself, from personal experience, that the stance for the pull
at the 19th hole has been recently changed to the open square, and even
at that it requires a fine push to get a shot of any length or depth.
When such a radical change as this takes place overnight you must not
mind George Duncan changing his mind once in ten years—and I am not sure
that I don’t agree with him.