The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-03-16
and Incidentally

vat al dinner enc night In Room 10.
know something about it," achoed
Fresh, why, l wrote it Didn't ever
tell you
Now. Club interrupted Bob Howe.
you see what you've started. We've
got 10 hear all about how Fresh was
'runner-up in the Podunk Amateur Golf
Stakes back i'll the eighties, which he'd
have won but for"
Yes" said Fresh with some asperity,
land I want to tell you that ] played
Eolf-an6 good golf. too over a four-hole
nourse that / laid out on my Uncle's place
up at Lake Geneva when no one else IN
this bunch knew a brassey from a bunk
err. The folks up there thought 1 was
r candidate for the Nut-College-
Have they ever changed their minds?'
murmured Bob.
wait. boys said Club, ct want
fresh to decide a dispute over ucklish
point in the game"
What is !t?" asked Fresh
well, I'll tell YOU" said Club. You
sec. Jake Cooke and I were playing an IS
hole match. hole-play, for 500 this after
noon
THAT makes your professionals" said
FRESH
'Oh. cut that! We can't either Of US hit
the earth with our Ilat-so that doesn't
worry us any. Where we broke up in
q rowdy house was over a point there's
no dope in the rules. You know that
gloping green at Nc. 9? Well. I'm dead
Tor the hole in 5. Jake plays Z with a
short approach over the bunker. If he
doesn't go down in q gobble, I'm a Turk,
and leaves me playing one off two-a
pipe But you know, the grass on that
green is pretty thin. I'm lying below the
hole-only foot away, held there by a
single blade Of grass. The winds blow
Ing somethin' scandalous, and just as
I'm about to play, bauff. comes sud-
den gust and starts my ball to rolling
down the hill. 1t pulls up in a 'cuppy
lie six feet away and Jake laughs and
says Play the like-play a. Can you beat
that? i wouldn't stand for it's being
stroke. for a minute, and the game got
rough Z"
TT all depends" said Fresh. ION just
one thing. How far had YOU gone in
your play when the ball began to roll?"
II hadn't touched it." answered Club.
II was just getting ready TO put. when
saw it start to move, and I instantly
lifted my club and let it CO.
..Ah! then YOU had addressed your
ball?'
why, yes. but 1 wasn't within three
inches of it. It was clearly the wind and
the slope of the green that caused it TO
roll Jake admits that. I don't claim
that should have been allowed to Te-
place it But I do kick on it's being
counted stroke when l never even touch
ed it,
IF you had taken your stance" said
Fresh and being ready to play, had ad-
dressed your ball. and the ball. through
whatever cause, moved from its original
position. it was a. stroke, and I'll Lave
10 decide against you, and give Jake the
money
''oh, no. Jake doesn't get the money"
said club. 81 halved the hole with
him at that
well. who won the sane?" asked Muir
ray Jameson
I'VE didn't finish it, laughed Club.
Counting this thing a tie, l vas one
down at the fifteenth hole Jake lad
a dinner date and wanted to iluit and
play it off tomorrow; it was getting so
late. But / thought. as long as We
weren't playing 1iddledee-winks or old
maid as he remarked, but golf I'd
spring few rules myself, and gently
animated that his society affairs don't
interest me at all. and that il he Gidnt
,,iay on the game, I'd claim the match
(Which was wholly within your rights
caid Fresh
But was playing 'em pretty tight,
said Bob.
DO you think exclaimed Club. zee
vishly, that / was going to take all the
short end of it? Jake claimed That he
had to call that stroke on me st the ninth
hole, because some of the BOYS were
betting on him. and he was in :lu.y hound
to use every right means possible to win
the game"
THAT excuse IS vintaged,'' laughed Jack
North "Of course. Jake didn't care for
his own hundred or inciden ally, fer
yours"
no No more than for his eye-tocth,"
Eaid Bob.
.'oh. Jake's all right" said Chu,. Hes
4 good sort. as long as you're not gam
bling With him. But he was awful sore
to-day. lie thought he had M licked TO
+, certainty. and if Fresh is right, per
aaps he had. i was so mad ] couldn
play. but I've got any part OF five hun
srcd TO say that can beat him. hole or
medal play or both. With one club or
ais bag. any time he wants a game
Il don't believe YOU and Jake know
how funny You really arc, Club, said
DITTO FrclinghuyScn. You're betting, in
proportion TO your game. is in the ratio
Of a thousand dollars to thirty cents. They
backed a couple of maiden twc-year-olds
pne year at the opening Of the racing
season. and they followed them hight
through the meeting never cashing
aicket-win. place or show. After be-
Ing some three or four thousand to the
had. they bought the skates for two
hundred apiece. sent them out to the
farm and put them to p.oughing UP corn
stalks. just to get even
That's all right replied Club. non
chalantly. .'lf you mean were a pair of
.sclling-platers.' perhaps you're right
But I'd rather have a swell bet on a race
between q couple OF well-natched dogs.
that We're making ding-dong finish
down the stretch, than 10 have it on an
odds-on favorite In a high-class event.
with the result IN no kind of doubt.
get more sensation, and that's what
live for.
Returning to golf" said Fresh after
a moments silence, have any OF You
eyer PLAYED over the old st. Andrews
links in Scotland?"
Apparently no one had.
Ever seen thcn?"
Still no answer.
swell" continued FRESH while were
drinking our coffee. I'll tell YOU of an odd
,t,.ta cxneric0ce Of mine over there, II You