Golf in theYear 2000 OR, WHAT WE ARE COMING TO BY J.A.C.K

“Two paths hath life, and well the theme
May mournful thoughts inspire;
For ah, the past is but a dream,
The future a desire.”
From the Arabic «

~ PREFACE. ~

Why this book was written, I don’t know. It’s not meant to instruct; you’ll have no doubt of that, after you have read it. It’s not meant to—I don’t even know what it’s not meant to do, any more than what it is. It’s not even to “supply a long felt want”—that’s the correct phrase, I think. Read it, and see what you think it’s meant to do, because I don’t.

I began with the intention of having a moral, but I hadn’t gone very far when I forgot what the moral was, so I left it out. Of course that’s not to say that the book is immoral—far from it.

When I showed the MS. to a friend, he asked me, “What will a man do, then, who doesn’t like golf?” He thought he had me, but he hadn’t. I answered him in the Scotch fashion by “asking him another.” “Had he ever heard of a man who, once having played golf, did not like it?” Ah! Had him there! He had to admit he had not, so that settled it. I'm afraid this is rather a poor preface, dear reader, but you see I’m not very accustomed to writing prefaces; but there’s one good point about it, though I says it as shouldn’t, it’s short.

J.A.C.K.

~ CONTENTS ~

PREFACE.

CHAPTER I.
In 1892

CHAPTER II.
In a curious position—Discover I have grown a beard—Am nearly drowned—Mr. Adams, C.I.G.C.—The year 2000—The certificate—Get my hair cut—The watch

CHAPTER III.
The new light—We have dinner—Adams turns out to be a golfer—Coloured photographs—The pink room—The private theatre—I go to bed

CHAPTER IV.
We have breakfast—Tubular railways—Decide on St. Andrews—New coinage—The tub—Fast travelling

CHAPTER V.
At St. Andrews—The patent caddie—Self-registering clubs—Daily competitions—The shouting “Fore” jacket—Revolving niblicks—Patent balls

CHAPTER VI.
Golf matches through the mirror—Mr. White—The International Championship—Sir John Dornoch—Rain towers—Discover I am a capitalist

CHAPTER VII.
How they cross the Atlantic—What the ladies of 2000 do—Miss Adams—Has the female sex degenerated?—The picture gallery—Miss Adams again, a little too much of her this time

CHAPTER VIII.
I choose a set of clubs—Breakfast hints about feeding—The gentle reader—We start for Golfton

CHAPTER IX.
The new putter—Golfton in the year 2000—We have a round—And win the match—The electric shoot—Another talk with Miss Adams—She proves too many for me

CHAPTER X.
Golf wars—We see the American match in London—Dornoch wins—The dinner—Adams’s speech—I make myself known—Finis

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