South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-07-28
Golfers Say President Does Not
Stop to Tell of FeatS While
Making the COurSe-HorSe
Loses Big Match for Expert.
BY ERANK g. MENkE.

Pres Wilson never plays the
nineteenth hole. and. therefore. GER
tainly cannot get the real enjoyment
out OF the golhng game" remarks a
writer for the Stories of the Links
i'm the July issue Of the Golfers
Magazine
What would golf he TO the aver
age player If he couldn't hold a sort
of post-mortem-if he couldn't re-
view the game ne just has finished
several wonderful shots ne made
during that game. For the player,
one OF the greatest pleasures is To tell
Of the marvellous drive he made from
the seventh tee. of the 20-foot putt
at the eleventh hole, of the wonder
ful lOfting drive from the rough on
the approach 10 the eighteenth hole
the shot that put him on the
green and gave him the game that.
for a time. seemed hOpelessly lost.
Pres. Wilson never seems TO feel
this JOY. AS soon as the last hole is
played he jumps into a waiting au
tomobile and is whisked away. He
never fingers to talk over what he
did or what might have been if he
hadn't sliced his drive, or trimmed
the cup. Such is the penalty that one
must pay for greatness"
William Harig of the Hyde Park
Golf club is the only Cincinnati
player who ever was beaten by a
hungry horse declares another
writer for that page. Harig was
playing a foursome with George
Stannard as partner. The match was
even up. until Harig drove out of
bounds into a pasture. Search for
was seen to drop something from his
mouth over the fence and onto the
course.
Ii was found the horse had Chewed
the covering off the ball and dropped
the remainder over the fence. After
discussion il was decided the ball
had been returned to the course by
an outside agency, but that Harig
should lose a stroke The stroke
cost his side the match.
While on the subject of freak shots
in golf, it might not be amiss to in
clude a yarn spun by player
whose veracity in all other things
never has been questioned; a man
whose truthfulness serves as the
model for the rising generation in his
home town. Not that we wish for a
single moment to intimate that this
here it is. Decide for yourself.
Driving off from the fifth tee. 1
sliced. The ball shot in the direction
Of the rough, but II didn't land on
the ground. Why2 Well, because
a porcupine jumped up from his hid
ing in the rough just at the crucial
moment and the ball landed on his
back and lodged between his bristles.
What next? why. so help me.
gee whizz, that animal ran right
toward the green and when he got
there he shook himself. out dropped
the ball. and by jimminy. it rolled
right into the cup. giving me the
hole in one with DOGGY at five"
A beginner wanted to play in a
DOGGY competition. says "A Ridge
County club member He had no
handicap. and was told that the only
way open TO him was TO play from
scratch.
When he came in he was asked
for the first IL holes. but after that
played wonderfully we'll, doing
most of the holes in DOGGY or less.
Why. at the seventeenth hole. I
made il in six less than DOGGY, and
at the eighteenth, | did it in eight
less than DOGGY"
Would you mind explaining just
how you did il ," asked one of his
auditors-the first to recover his
breath.
"Oh. ! suppose it was just my
natural Improvement as the game
went on" said the player Il
couldn't do the first hole in one, nor
the second in two. nor the third in