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Golfing Boehm-Bawerk

June 28, 2004 by

Forgive this superfluous post, but a friend just sent me this this picture from a golf shop sign in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in which the Mr. Niblick of Mashie & Niblick, looks surprisingly like Eugen von Boehm-Bawerk.

{ 10 comments }

Thant Tessman June 28, 2004 at 12:09 pm

According to my Webster’s Universal Unabridged Dictionary, the golf term “niblick” perhaps comes from the root word “nibble.” That is, there was no Mr. Niblick. That probably really is Boehm-Bawerk’s picture. (My apologies if this was obvious to everyone but me.)

Lucas Engelhardt June 28, 2004 at 1:35 pm

That’s very interesting, actually… According to the Dictionary I checked (after I read your entry) a niblick is a kind of iron golf club. Makes me wonder what a mashie is (the Dictionary I checked didn’t have that one in there). I’m thinking it might be a term for a wooden driver. Now, we need to find out whose face Mr. Mashie is based on…

Could it possibly be a young Mises(Link)?

Otto Drachen June 28, 2004 at 2:42 pm

A close encounter of the Misesian kind…

Jeremy Horpedahl June 28, 2004 at 3:48 pm

The “mashie niblick” was the historical golf club, wooden-shafted and used primarily before the 20th Century, that would be most closely associated with today’s 7-irons.

Source: http://golf.about.com/cs/golfterms/g/bldef_mashienib.htm

Gintas Jazbutis June 28, 2004 at 4:53 pm

I was at a local Taco del Mar (fast food on the left coast) and saw a promotional poster with an accountant making a favorable quote about the establishment. This “accountant”? None other than Hayek!

(the image used: http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Images/Chicago/0226181502.jpeg)

John T. Kennedy June 28, 2004 at 6:56 pm

I think those are both pictures of Gene Callahan.

Andrew McManama-Smith June 28, 2004 at 8:33 pm

That’s gotta be Mises and Boehm-Bawerk!

Stephen Rynerson June 30, 2004 at 9:52 am

I definitely agree that “Niblick” is Boehm-Bawerk. The sign even replicates details of his collar. However, I doubt “Mashie” is Mises; Mashie has a substantially larger moustache and his jaw is quite square compared to Mises’.

Lucas Engelhardt June 30, 2004 at 10:09 am

Yeah, I actually suggest Mises as a joke… I think that I’ve seen a picture of someone somewhere that looks like “Mashie”, but I can’t remember who.

But, really, wouldn’t it be fun if it were Mises?

Christopher Richards January 10, 2007 at 9:50 am

I would like to know where that golf shop is.

By the way, the rather wacky ongoing and online story, “The Lost Mashie Niblick,” may interest readers here.

http://golflies.blogspot.com

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