The Washington herald., 1914-07-26
GOLF MUST HAVE
ITS POST MORTEM
Game Would Be Uninterest-
ing if Players Could Not Re
view Cards After Matches.
TEES FROM BIG LINKS
Hyde Park Golfer Is Beaten in Great
Game by Hungry HOrse-Beginner
Does is Holes in 8 Bosey.
TEES FROM BIG LINKS

President Wilson never plays the nine
teenth hole, and. therefore. certainly can
not get the real enjoyment out of the
goling game" remarks q writer for the
Stories OF the L4nks'' page In the July
issue OF the Golfers Magazine
What would golf be to the average
player II he couldn't hold a sort of post
mortem-if he couldn't review the game
he just has finished and to inform his
audience of the several wonderful shots
he 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 twenty-foot
putt at the eleventh hole, Of the wonder
ful lofting drive from the rough on the
approach to the eighteenth hole-the shot
that put him on the green and gave him
the game that, for q time, seemed hope
lessly lost.
President Wilson never seems to feel
this Joy. As soon as the last hole is
played. he jumps into a waiting automo- !
bile and is whisked away. He never
fingers to talk over what he did. or what |
might have been II he hadn't sliced his |
drive. or rummed 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. de- |
clares another writer for that page. Harig |
was playing a foursome, with George
Stannard as partner. The watch was
even up, until Harig drove out of bounds
into q pasture. Search for the bail was
futile Then a horse was seen to drop
something from his mouth over the fence
and onto the course.
It was found the horse had chewed the
covering on the ball and dropped the
remainder over the fence. After discus
sion II was decided the ball had been re-
turned 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 include a
yarn spun by a player whose veracity
in all other things never has been ques-
toned: 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 IN
cident didn't happen, but-well, here II ;
is Decide for yourself.
Driving on from the fifth tee, sliced.
The ball shot in tho direction of the
rough, but II didn't land on the ground.
Why? Well. because porcupIne jumped
up from his hiding In the rough Just at
the crucial moment and the ball landed 1
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 I
jimmino. it rolled right into the cup. !
giving me the hole in one with bogey at s
five" ID
A beginner wanted TO play in a bogey
competition. saws a Ridge County Club
member. He had no handicap. and was G
told that the only way open to him was
to play from scratch.
When he came in he was asked how
he had done. ''Oh. not so well for the
first twelve holes. but after that played
wonderfully well. dOin.; most of the
holes in boeey or less. Why. at the sew
enteenth hole, made II in six less than
bogey. and at the eighteenth, did 1t in I
eight less than bogey.' |!
Would You mind explaining just how
you did it?" asked one Of the auditors .
the first to recover his breath.
"Oh. I suppose it was just my natural
Improvement as the game went on" said =
the player. II couldn't do the first hole \
in one, nor the second in two. nor the
third in three. Fact is. couldn't do any
Of the first twelve holes in bogey. but I :
got started at the thirteenth I made =
thaI hOle IN DOReF-tnlTteen ShOtS- =
made the fourteenth in fourteen. the fif-
teenth in thirteen. and from then on I :,
had an easy time beating bogey. for q
did the sixteenth hole in thirteen. the sew =
enth in eleven, and the eighteenth in ten" !,
Grant D. Green. OF the Orandaga lCoun- q
try Club, OF Syracuse, n. Y. is the only
man that ever negotiated a seventy-fYe-
yard hole on that course in two strikes,
and he'll probably hold that record, made o.
some years ago for many years to come. IN
The hole in question is bunkered by fl
.hree small hills with valleys between. ir
The normal drives usually land in one z
Dr. another of those valleys. But Green's m
didn't His drive struck the second hill Z,
about 225 yards from the tee, plunked t.
onto a little rock and then, instead of
rolling into the valley. zipped on. landed m
on the crest of the third HILL and then d,
rolled down onto the green. near m
enough to the hole to get Green down on fl
The next shot.