Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-06-08
TELLS
Of Z PECULIAR
GOLF INCIDENTS
BY Tick TichenOr.

Nv / iNh lflltIlOl.
I HAD most unusual thing to hap
pen in the match ] played agains.
Frank Hewitt in the Invitation
Tournament Of the Birmingham
Country club last month.
At the fourteenth tee both Mr..
Hewitt and myself got away good
drives When We reached our balls
they We're lying only about a half
inch apart. my bali being just IN
front of his. OF course under the,'
circumstances il would have been
practically impossible for either Of us
10 have played a shot without strik-
ing the other ball. which under the
rule eighteen would have meant the
loss of the hole TO the player maxi
ing the shot as this rule provides, II
players ball strike. or be stopped,
or he moved by an opponent or m
opponents caddie or clubs. the oppo-
nent shall lose the hole in match
play"
Now neither Of US had had such a
condition as confronted us 10 arise
before but We each remembered that
the rules provided that if the balls
lay within clubs length Of each other
through the Green that the ball lying
nearer the hole might at the option
OF either player be lifted until after
the other ball had been played and
then replaced as near as possible m
its former position.
AS my ball was in front OF his ]
lifted it from a beautiful lie. The
shot to the green was only a short
one of some twenty or twenty tive
Yards but over a deep trap Just on
the edge of the green. which made IL
necessary to get the ball well up
into the air and stop II quickly. The
turf on which our balls lay was soft
anw spungy. Mr.. Hewitt played mis-
shot with a nibic and dug up diyot
Cthe golf term for a piece OF sod cut
up by the club in making strok)
about the size Of your hand and thus
removed the grass upon which my
ball had been so beautifully teed bui
few moments before.
What was | to dO2 Was / TO re-
place my ball in the hole he had
lust dug in playing his shot2 Ger
tainly such a requirement would not
have been fair to me.
What | did was to wait until Mr..
Hewitt and his caddy had carefully
replaced and pressed down the divOt,
which he had cut up. and then I re-
placed my ball as near as possible %
the place II formerly occupied.
Now as a matter of fact II was not
necessary for me to replace my ball
in its former position because the lat
ter part Of rule sixteen reads. IF the
lie OF the lifted ball be altered In
PLAYING the other ball. the lifted bail
NAV be placed as near as possible %
the place where ii lay and in lie
similar TO that which it originally
! occupied
DR. 10 EPH EBY. who is one Z
1 ..-,Nhvs-faeTfp Golfers n
the Atlanta Athletic Club. mad
most unusual thing to happen in
round he was playing at East Lake
| a bout a wear ago. He was playing IN
/ a foursome and was playing the sixth
| hole. The drive at this hole Is over
| a slight hin and into a fiat beyond.
| II is impossible at this hole for those
standing on the tee TO tell II the
PLAYERS in front are out of range.
DR. Eby and the other members OF
the foursome had gotten away good
| drives and the other members had
nIayed their second shots to the green
except DR.. Eby. While he was actual
Inv making his downward stroke N
nlaying his approach shot TO the green
| baU driven by one of the players
Who we're plaving behind them struck
Dr. Eby's ball and moved 1t three OF
| folIr feet which caused Dr.. Ely %
miss the ball entirely.
While Dr. Eby made a bona fce
effort TO hit the ball and failed, which
under the rules counts az a stroke
Z and also his ball having moved after
ne had soled his club he was deemed
10 have caused il to have moved,
which would have cost him strike.
sill on the other hand his ball was
TfsDIared bv an agency outside OF the
I match and he was therefore entitled
under the rules 20 replace Il without
I penalty
This case was not sent 20 the rules
committee for a decision and 50 there
| has been no ruling upon the point
/ Which Of the rules above mentioned
do YOU think ~ere made 10 cover
case like this one
How would YOU. under these facts,
I liked to have lost the hole on account
~ a penalty strike added 70 Your
I score
Tnsoubtedly some queer things
sometimes happen in round OF go4i
| POLE VAULT FOR eRITIsHERs.