CIVIc LIFE AND FRATERNAL INTERESTS 117

There, under the sunshine that bathes the rolling slopes of the
golf course in healing light, President Murphree sought refuge
from the cares of his office.
 The Gainesville Golf and Country Club was founded in
January, 1922, and Dr. Murphree became an ardent and ac-
tive member. He played quite regularly several days a week.
He did not play on Sundays.
 At a joint meeting of the civic clubs of Gainesville in the
early fall of 1927, Dr. Murphree was chosen to speak on the
value of outdoor recreation and with accustomed vigor he told
his fellow townsmen that if they would play more they could
work harder.
 "I do not hesitate to say that I find the game of golf, with
its outdoor exercise, its touch of competitive activity and its
splendid fellowships, a source of great recreation to me. In
the outdoors thus I brush the dust of work and grind from off
my mind and enter into the spontaneous spirit of play. Every
man ought to have some play time. It makes him a better
workman among his fellows and a better companion to them,"
he said.
 Dr. Murphree was rated as better than the average golfer.
He belonged to the coveted "hole-in-one" club. His game
averaged in the 70's and low 80's. According to his golfing
companions, he studied the game and was continually attempt-
ing to improve his playing. If he finished above par, he was
not satisfied. Two of his close associates on his rounds of golf
were Col. E. S. Walker and Mr. W. M. Pepper, owner of the
Gainesville Sun.
 Dr. C. L. Crow, one of the older and closer associates of
Dr. Murphree on the university faculty, paid the late president
this tribute:
 "One of the most touching evidences that has come to my
hearing of the power he had of binding men's souls to him
through their affection, is from the Country Club of our city,
where he was accustomed to renew his strength for his work.
The negro boy who caddied for him has forsaken the links and
has sought other employment, because, so warmly does he
cherish the memory of his golf-player, as he called him, he
cannot bring himself to carry clubs for anyone else."