The evening tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 189?-190?, 1897-02-11

l Wuc. Auoro Ooiu8 no IunQS 6S yot avail
able and a possibility that there nevs
would be, tho committee dclicately al
stained from any mention to Pillioott 9
| this particunlar item of the course, jude
ing Ii would be kinder to let him find
out naturally and gradually In the progress
| oS things.
1t was arranged that the tee of beyon'
| Peters hole should be from tho roof O
Tubb's tool shed.
IL was necessary to gently loft over tn
| fowlhouse and between Tubb's pigeoI
cot and poplaf tree on to the gravel patl
at the corner of Tubb's kitchen. From
this point one could drive straight acros
the road, under the Doctors lamp ON tn,
farther side and between conservatory
and house wall, to she foot of the DOCTOR
rubbish heap, which constituted anothe
official bunker-rubbish bunker.
The drive across the road was difficulty
because 10 was impossible for the player t<
know whether any one was about to las,
along the road, and it was therefore neces
sary to arrange the height of the stroke Il
a nicely, 80 that the ball should pass ovel
the road at just such a height as to avoid
the head of pedestrian and yet low
enough to avert the smashing of the doc
tors lamp over the way. The ball could
not pass over the lamp because 1t would
then come in contact with mop" tree
and fall into difficult gully, and from
the gully 1t would need three strokes, a
dribble, gentle loft over dust hole, and
another loft to bring 1t to rubbish bunker.
Then came difficulty. The only posi-.
bic way to obtain drive from here was tc
open the two windows of Crackleton's s
washhouse and send the ball straight
through, which would enable 1t to cross
the road again and pass between Wilkin.
sons gate posts (the gate. also being left
open) to Wilkinson's dust hole, which
blocked 1t. Hence, by short dribble, the
ball could be placed In position to loft IL
over holly hedge on to Wilkinson's green
tho lower lawn-where the hole was
Bogey for this was four, and this complet
ed the round OF eight holes, bogey for the
whole round "a.
Then boy turned up-none knew
whence or how. He was believed to have
come from dirty back street little way
OF, but why the school board allowed him
to wholly suspend his attendance and de
vote himself 70 US we could not make out.
We feared that boy from the first moment
we set eyes on him. He was Scotch boy
with unlimited confidence in himself, and
he seemed to be an absolute professor OF
golf.
The first day we began to play he some
how-with whose authority we know not
himself caddie, and simply
sat on the lot of u.s. In fact, our dread OF
the scorn Of his eye was only inferior to our
dread of that of the eye of MoGourock.
Under the tuition of McGourock and the
boy we made our first round. 1t was dis
First, Wilkinson, standing too closely
behind Dipps when the latter was attempt
Ing his first tee of, suffered a compound
fracture of the hat and a considerable con-
fusion of the scalp. Next, Dipps, having
with great effort performed drive Of seven
yards, made another mighty stroke at the |
ball on the strawberry bed where it had |
landed. There was a wild scattering OF |
earth and strawberry leaves, and Dipps |
gazed with great pride Mt missile flying |
through one Of the next door windows. |
But when he looked again at his brassel |
the head was not on it, while the ball Law |
lnnOccntly on the strawberry bed as before. |
Ii was therefore concluded that it had been !
The head OF the brassey and not the ball |
which had gone through the neighborina |
and this was subsequently, ascer. |
tained to DC a fact.
Wilkinson, following on, promptly lost |
three balls. One was believed to have |
landed in a roof gutter But no man
knows 10 this day what became Of the 9th |
er two, nor what direction they took, and |
some hold that they are still whirline
through space, to the danger of the public. |
Then Cattlebury dcnted Wilkinson's shin,
for Wilkinson seemed extremely unlucky
at golf, hurt his own leg, and finally drove
his ball through the window of Pillicott's
billiard room. 1t was agreed that this
should not be considered us n disaster, see.
Ing that such n casualty had been antici.
pated and provided for by the provisional
committee OF survey
Dipps made a really brilliant stroke
from the corner Of Tubb's kitchen across
the road, but carriers cart happening
most unfortunately to pass at the moment,
the ball took tuft Of hair off the back OF
the carriers head and, detected from its
true course, smashed the doctors lamp on
the farther side of the road
Pillicott required 13 strokes for the spacc
Between the tee off on Tubb's tool shed and
CattlcbIry's uncle's green; Wilk;nsonA19,
and Dipps no fewer than 30, bogey beings.
Then Banting unfortunately killed Mrs.
Cattlebury's pug and wounded the cocka.
too.
On that first round the casualties were:
Windows broken, D; contusions, etc, s;
golf sticks damaged Ia pugs killed, /;
cockatoos damaged, balls lost or strayed,
%. Total casualties, 90.
AT each misfortune the boy laughed in q
dcinoniac way, and the scorn In McGou-
rocks eye was fearful to look upon
That evening we met at Wilkinson's and
agreed that the game thus played did not
seem promising, but McGourock declared
his intention Of going over the round regu.
larly until we should succeed I'm finding
more suitable links, and such WAS our
dread Of his eye that we dared not request
him to abstain, and he did go round all
day, every day, accompanied by the boy. |
We were miserable. He had thrown up
bunkers In our tennis ground, and we
could not play, and his irritation when
any Of the ladies attempted cycling on the
road was too terrible To defy He objected
10 our even playing tennis. or croquet, or
anything I'm our own gardcns-indccd, IL |
MAS risky to uo info Them nt all Al last