Snookered by Jove
Grimsby Daily Telegraph, Monday 03 September 1923
GOLF BOLSHEVISTS.
Somebody ought to form a Society for the Protection of Ancient Golf Terms. The other day I overheard such horrid expressions as “I’m playing the even”; “Shall I take my wood”; “Snookered by Jove.”
Logically, of course, if it is correct to speak of “playing the odd,” why not the even, and if “irons” be permissible, why not “woods?”
But in the first case “the like” is the time-honoured term, while somehow or other “woods” makes the gorge rise. As for “snookered” in placed of “stymied,” the caitiff deserves burial at the crossroads with a niblick through his midriff.