[Dr. Franklin]

“If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States..."

H.L. Mencken

[jroehl]

The full quote is:

“If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.”

And the context makes it even funnier. He had just explained that the YMCA’s gymnastics program gave him an “ineradicable distaste” for calisthenics and that he hated sports “as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”

[jroehl]

The full quote is:

“If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.”

And the context makes it even funnier. He had just explained that the YMCA’s gymnastics program gave him an “ineradicable distaste” for calisthenics and that he hated sports “as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”