Physical culture (1908) (14779459271)

Identifier: physicalculture201908macf (find matches)

Title: Physical culture

Year: 1899 (1890s)

Authors: MacFadden, Bernarr Aldolphus, 1858-

Subjects: Physical education and training

Publisher: New York : Physical Culture Publishing Co.

Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries

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preserved and increasedby reason of the constant exercise inthe open air .which the sport demands,which is not only reasonable, but ob-vious. When mental stimulus of apleasant kind is allied to plenty of walk-ing and lots of exercise of a special sortfor the trunk and arms, it is manifestthat nothing but benefit can ensue. When, in 1895, Mr. Carnegie becamethe owner of Skibo, the first thing whichhe did, so it is said, was to consult hislandscape gardener and engineer in re-gard to the links. The outcome of thematter was, that while the beauty of thepark is unmarred, the links themselvesare of an ideal kind from the viewpointof the golf-player. So that when oneremembers the natural fascination ofgolf, and that Mr. Carnegie is a votarythereof, it will cease to be a wonder thatthere have been repeated times when aseries of games begun directly afterbreakfast at Skibo have only been endedby the coming of night. The nativesround about the Castle have a lot of tales 67 C8 PHYSICAL CULTURE

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ight 1908 by Und rwtod & Underwood, N MARK TWAIN IS AN ENTHUSIASTIC DEVOTEE OF BILLIARDS AND A REMARKABLY EXPERTPLAYER. THOUGH HIS OWN CHARACTERISTIC COMMENT ON THIS PAR-TICULAR PHOTOGRAPH WAS. EVEN JOHN THE BAPTISTCOULDNT MAKE A SHOT OUT OF THAT! RECREATIONS OF PROMINENT MEN 69 to tell in illustration of the financiersdevotion to the sport. One of such isto the effect that last winter, when thethermometer was dallying with zero, Mr.Carnegie, apparently unconscious of thecold, played from early morning until itbecame too dark to see the hole-marks. On the occasion of his last visit tothis country, a story of much importanceconcerning the iron and steel industryof this country reached the office of aNew York newspaper. It was evidentthat the man who, above all others,could throw light on the subject wasMr. Carnegie. So a crack reporter wasput on his trail. Mr. Carnegie wasfinally located at his sisters home atCumberland Island, Georgia, where thereporter found him busily playing go

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