Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1914-07-12
GOLF STORIES and
FISH STORIES. alike
Grasshopper Stops Rolling
Ball from Dropping
Into Hole.
BUT is LATER KILLED
Aiming His Left Leg at the Ball,
GrasshOpper Commands it to Halt,
But to Halt it Refused-An-
other Fish Story.

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other Fish story.
After explaining that some golf
stories are like most fish stories, we
will proceed to Gift" a few anecdotes
from the Queer shots in Golf" article
which appears in the June issue OF
the Golfers Magazine"
No names are mentioned in connec-
ton with a story of how grasshop-
per once got in the way OF a rolling
ball and kept it from dropping into
the hole. Probably, as they say in
breakfast food circles, There's a rea-
son.
1t seems that the golfer who was
thwarted by the grasshopper, made a
Terrific approach shot, and the ball,
landing some distance from the green,
continued to roll and roll and roll.
The golfer was amazed to see the ball
finally roll into the green, and head
directly for the hole. 1t seemed to
have sufficient momentum to carry it
into the cup, when, all of sudden,
up jumped Mister Grass Hopper from
his place of hiding, just in time to see
! the ball bearing down upon him.
Halt" commanded the grashop-
per, aiming his left leg at the heart OF
the ball.
The ball didn't halt.
''Hey, you, slip us the countersign or
you don't enter here" roared the
grasshopper.
The ball ignored the demand for a
countersign, and SO the grashopper,
not being sure whether the bali was
friend or foe, but not caring to take
any chances, swung out one OIL his
trusty feet, landed a perfect solar
pleXus, and the ball halted in it's mad
career-just on the rim of the cup.
Knocks Ball Out Of Sight.
Opie Read, the author and DR.. r. G..
Fisher of Chicago, once played round
over the Jackson park course and
then sat under tree to rest. While
seat, some other golfer sliced drive
and the ball struck the tree under
which our heroes were sitting. Both
Read and Dr. Fisher ducked but the
ball did not fall to the ground as far
as they could see.
Pretty soon the golfer and his caddy
came along looking for the ball. The
author and physician joined in the
search, but it was unavailing. The ball
was not found then, but it was found
later. Nope, you've guessed wrong.
The ball did not drop down the back
of Reads neck. 1t dropped into the
doctors coat pocket, and he found it
4 4bof Whnn hn
searching around in the pocket for a
package of chewing gum, or his pipe,
or whatever it was that he was
searching for.
"How to Hole a Ball without Swat
ting it With a Club" ought to be the
title of this one. 1t happened on the
North Berwick course.
A thirty-six hole foursome was
being played. 1t was all even on the
thirty-sixth hole. One side got the
ball OF the other to the green, and
dropped it into the cup ON the next
/ shot. The ball of the other side was
20 feet away. A gale was blowing,
and the ball lay on pont bit high
err up than the hole leSb The player
figured the shot an impossible one,
but he determined to make a desper-
ate try for it anyway.
Just as he was about to soak the
ball a nice soak, an extra strong
gust of wind came along and hit the
ballEstartiag it to rolling down hill
And whaddaya think of it. That ball
! rolled right into the cup, SO i'd did
! And the side that owned the ball won
the match. How was that? We'll, it
was decided that the played had not
grounded his club before the ha'l
started to rolling, and therefore, the
! roll was counted as part Of the last
shot.
i Pretty good figuering, hey?
But you can't always get away
with those. kind of shots, as is shown
I by another story in which cater
pillar figured.
Everything was even at the eish-
! teenth hole. Player number one got
his ball onto the green and holed 1t
Player number two got his ball onto
the green, near the cup, which was
in slightly stopping position. He
was trying to figure out from just
what angle to shoot when cater
pillar ambled along and climbed
aboard the ball.
Now, everybody knows that a
caterpillar doesn't weight much. bu
| this particular caterpillar was a fat
fellow. He was so fat and bulky thai
he disturbed sthe equilibrium of ths
bail just enough to start it to NOV
ing. The ball, gained momentum anc
finally rolled right into the hole
carrying the caterpillar with it.