Game of Golf

On his way to British Columbia, Field Marshal Earl Haig stopped off at Jasper and visited the great national park there.

A game of golf ? That seemed a good idea and in due course a member of the Earl's party drove a straight, low ball over the fairway. The sight of this small, white object skimming over the grass and then bumping its way along attracted the attention of a neighboring bear which promptly gave chase. Along the fairway galloped the bear, both beady eyes fixed upon the white spheroid rollicking on ahead.

At this moment a second bear gave a grunt of ecstatic delight and lumbered off full speed after the first. The ball gave a dying flop and settled in a rut. The first bear fell over it and the second bear fell over the first. Then began a battle for the ball which was "torn to shreds" in the melee.

From the comparative security of the first tee, the Earl and his party gazed down upon the struggle, resolutely determining to play with no bears.