Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-10-12
GOOD YARNS SPUN
EVEN BY GOLFERS
ABOUT ODD EVENTS
Fishermen Now Concede
Landlubber Has as Many
Queer Stories to Tell as
Followers of Isaac Walton.

Some weird stories come out of the West
and this one of the lost ball is very prob
ably true, as it was told by a clergyman
who witnessed the incident player had
made long drive from a tee below the
brow of hill and could not see the ball
come to rest on the fairway. The drive
was a long and straight one and 1t was
obvious that 1t could not have found the
rough or a trap, but 1t was nowhere to
be seen. Both the caddie and the player
hunted for 1t a long time, as the latter
was in the process of making good
score and hated to mar It, There was a
tree not far from the line Of play and
the golfer shook the tree violently. think
ing that the ball might have lodged there
in as sometimes happens. There was no
result and then the caddie took a long
pole and knocked an old birds nest from
its resting place among the branches.
To the surprise of everyone three balls
dropped from 1t, one of which the player
claimed as his own
British golting magazine, commenting
on the rise of the American professional,
remarks that this is the fourth success
sive year that a native American has won
the national open championship and that
this may be taken as an indication that
our native youth when playing on their
own golf soil are capable of throwing off
the power of their British professors
Apropos of our failure to lift the British
title, the writer's seem TO be justified in
remarking that the situation is highly
satisfactory as they can quite afford to
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land and encourage the youth of this
country in a pastime which Is advancing
in popularity by leaps and bounds.
The game OF golf presents all sorts OF
opportunities for courtesy and also for
dlscourtesy and many unintentional
breaches OF golfing etiquette are record
ed, though the man who avails himself
of his right to ask his opponents score
as the latter Is in the act OF driving or
putting seldom appears, for this seldom
happens. And that speaks we'll for the
sportsmanship of the men playing the
game.
One OF the commonest faults IS that OF
rushing ahead when the ball has been
played instead OF waiting for ons's op-
ponent TO get away his shot. The aver
age golfer is proof against noises and
other ordinary nuisanoes, but the sight Of
something or some one moving ahead or
in the line OF play will succeed In "get-
ting his goat" when nothing else will
move him. II should be avoided at all
events, even though your ball has found
the rough and You are eager to avoid
its being lost.
We are all acquainted with the player
who covers a course in q low score be-
cause he takes good care that We brar
about II, Hut the man who duhs hls /
weary way around the is holes out %
EhA NJ IA.
will not quiz In the face of a bad score, /
seldom In1lcts his troubles on US Never |
theless he deserves considerable praise.
In a recent tournament held BY ths !
members of a certain club one player /
started out with three tens on the FRS /
three holes. Then he got an eight and I
then capped the climax with an ls on a .
troublesome NTH hole, But he was un- |
dIsulayed and kept at 1t though At the |
end he handed IN a card OF l73, But such /
spirit will land him at the mead IN course
OF time II he keeps It up.
A striking illustration OF the results OF
Is furnished In the case OF
Miss MAJ Bell. OF the Philadelphia
Cricket Club. Last year Miss Bell had a
handicap OF a. ard shs has this Year
redu4ed her allowance 10 Is, And the
reason for this Is the fact that she has
spent hours and hours In practiciog,
Nearly every day she may bs found on
the hrst Tee with her driver IN her hand
and the professional at her elbow, Alec
Duncan Is a painstaking teacher, and has
helped Mlss Bell wonderfully as her prog
ress has proved. II shows considerable
EFFORT and real advancement 10 lower
ones handicap u strokes in the course
of a year. This is ia sort Of thing that
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