[Ads-l] A good walk spoiled

[Dan Goncharoff]

Didn't Quote Investigator cover the same territory starting a decade or so
ago?

On Sun, Jul 24, 2022, 2:12 PM Pete Morris <mr_peter_morris at outlook.com>
wrote:

> "Golf  ...  a good walk spoiled" - not Mark Twain.
>
> In the podcast linked above, Fred says that the quote is not known
> before 1913.  I've found a few precursors.
>
> Caveats about google dating apply.
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> possibly 1901.  attributed to a "well-known jockey"
>
>
> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/American_Lawn_Tennis/VCRRAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=good+walk&dq=good+walk&printsec=frontcover
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> The Boss of Little Arcady,
> by Harry Leon Wilson   1905
>
> https://www.gutenberg.org/files/10358/10358-h/10358-h.htm
>
> Again: "This new game of golf that the summer folks play seems to have
> too much walking for a good game and just enough game to spoil a good
> walk." Golf in the Little Country!
>
> I'm going to guess that this is the source that popularized the phrase,
> if not invented it.
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> possibly 1908.
> https://tinyurl.com/2dub7py9
>
> The Will of Allah by Kathlyn Rhodes
>
> Personally I utterly deny the fascination of golf as a game ; to me it
> always seems like a good walk spoilt . I simply hate having to pull up
> every hundred yards and look about for a stupid little ball , and hit it
> into an equally ...
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>
> possibly 1906.  The "well-known jockey" again.
>
> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/The_Secrets_of_Lawn_Tennis/QJcCAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=good+walk&dq=good+walk&printsec=frontcover
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> possibly 1911
>
> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Fry_s_Magazine/59o9AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=golf+%22a+good+walk%22&dq=golf+%22a+good+walk%22&printsec=frontcover
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> possibly 1912
>
>
> https://www.google.co.uk/books/edition/Fry_s_Magazine/Nts9AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=golf+good+walk&dq=golf+good+walk&printsec=frontcover
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> one for Quote Investigator, perhaps?
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