The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-10-21
TIE MAKING OF A
 HOLE IN (NE Fined On the British Links and a Freak in This
 Country. INTERESTING INSTANCE Some of the Marvellous Shots Here and Else
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INTERESTING INSTANCE

OhdIJ SllOu6lls hAAO 6ASSAbSSs ASAASANS that may happen to a golfer is subject to fine on British links and in this country is called freak shot. It is the making of a hole in one. A salvo of ironical cheers or handclaps ac- eompanied by tolerant smiles, is the aftermath of such shot from an American golf gallery" in which the majority are expert prayers. If the gallery" contains many greenhorns the player as he swells up after the feat, is apt to have his pride punctur- ed by a request to do it again.
 That's the stuff" some vandal will shout. Give us another shot just like that"
 The gallery" was too we'll bred to shout in that manner when Bernard Nichols made the 20 yard hole of the Somerset links at Bernardsville, in one, but that the resort visitors thought he had predilection for such shots was revealed when they gathered in the rain the next round to see him do it again. Bernard promptly fell off his pedestal by talk ing four strokes. He made the ten strike drive in an exhibition match by professionals in the fall of 1905, and, as in lifetime of golf Nichols had never before accomplished one hole, the spectators received full value right there for their subscriptions. They didn't seem to feel that way about it and acted as though Nichols .a Faf1aH fr repeat.
 All holes in one marvellous and whether made from 8 full drive, cleik or a niashie shot there is sug- gestion of witchery about them. Ex- perienced golfers smile when hole is made from the tee in enjoyment of the unexpected premium the good drive has won. To hole out is the unearned increment of a clever drive and so good cause for mirth It is a climax of good luck as rare as to fall overheard and find a diamond ring. An avenue block in Manhattan is 400 feet long, and to appreciate what the ball did for Nichols on that 200 yard hole one must try to picture it soaring from an avenue corner into a certain teacup; for the diameter of golf hole is 1-2 inches. The golfer would cheer a sharpshooter who hits the bullseye, but he laughs when a drive is holed because he knows the player only aimed at the entire put ting green. It is the intention that makes the bullseye triumph; the lack of an attempt to hole out that makes the count of one stroke joke.
 When tee shot makes the green and stops close to the hole the drive is aplauded as a masterstrike. The shot is a tribute to the players di- rection and length, the laying dead" accepted as climax of skill, while to hole the shot is treated as ludicrous anti-climax, which seems a paradox Some time since in symposium of British golfers on their favorite shot, H. H. Hilton was the only one to de- clare for the shot he once holed from the tee. In general those who have had a similar record speak as though the ball had been bewitched.
 Jamie Anderson in the open cham pionship he won at Prestwick in 1878 needed the hole he got in one to win out. The only hole ever made in one in an American championship oc- cured in June, during the national open over the course of the Philadel- phia Cricket club. On the tenth hole of l47 yards Jack Hobens of the En- glewood Golf club had two in the morning and one in the afternoon. He took four for the same hole on the fourth round and did not finish first or second. Another professional w. V. Hoare, holed his drive this year on the 1855 yard hole of the Salt Lake sort from the tee has the record, if to particularize in such shot Is not painting the lily of being one of the longest drives ever holed in one. This occurred at the Houston, Tex, Golf club last year when Charles D. Gold ing, an amateur, poped into the cup on a 218 yard hole
 The earliest records of holes in one on courses in the Metropolitan Golf association were at the spring tourn- ament of the Golf club of Lakewood in 1898. Otto Hoekmeyer, Staten Island player, holed an iron shot from the tee and in the same tournament James A. Tyng holed in one on the first hole, which was about 120 yards. The advantage gained by this good fortune brought Tyng in for the hand leap, tied with Herbert C. Leeds at 85, both playing from scratch Tyng won on the playoff. The first mo- toriety gained by Herbert M Harri- man in the game was through holing in one from full drive at the Knoll wood Country club in 1897 Two years alter he became the first American trained national amateur champion. The advent of the rubber cored ball in 1901 has made the one holes more frequent than of old, yet they are still almost as scarce as hens teeth in conrrorison with the multiplicity of tee S Nade by every golfer.
 short enough to justify a rnaej-e, iron or cleik from the tee are more often made in one than when wood is used for the drive, yet when the ball is bewitched any old clut will do. The only hole e~.er made in one at the Dyker Meadow Golf clut is the second, 167 yards, where there is a nice run up to the green be- yond ditch. M. s. Flint, a member unknown to fame in the monthl! handicaps, performed the feat with { cleik. The eleventh at the Lake wood Country club, mashie shot has been made by Arthur Kyle ant VII Norton in the coveted figure. F D: Stoutenburgh has the same recort on the 100 yard thirteenth at Dea where a high pitch is needed over 1afa n