Omaha daily bee., 1915-03-21
MENKE WRITES OF GOLF GAME
Base Ball Experts Thoughts Turn
to the Links and He Relates
a Few Incidents.
REv1vEs PUTTING ARGUMENT
nv FRANK q. NTENKE

~ FhANh 1s hENAE
Alma whitaker. Los Angeles Collins
expert. fsvors looking at the cup instead
Of the ball when putting on the green.
when one throws n brick at a yowlins
cat one looks at the cat-not the brick"
remarks Miss whitaker.
Rightol
Continuing in her argument that folks
who look at the bell when putting are
doing things backward. Miss whitaker
says:
when you play croquet you look at the
hoop-not the ball. When you sew but
ton on a shirt you don't look at the
| needle. You look at the hole in the but
ton. when you bowl you look at the pins
mot the ball.
80 why?" asks Miss whitaker should
one reverse the general order In golfing3
Why should one DO the backward thing
IN golflnE? The thing TO look o. IL the
goai-not the instrument that is 70 take
YOU to the goal"
Miss Whitaker's logic seems 70 us the
best that ever has been offered as en- an
swer 90 the mooted question in golf
Should one look at the ball or the hole
when puttine7"
The Worst Golf score.
The worst golf score? Well, three fell
lows played a match game on the Garden
City IN. W links last year during a
tournament Of the Carpet Trade Golf
association ana II the scores they turned
I'm aren't Of record nature. show We
worse ones.
The best golfer OF the three nego-
tinted the eighteen holes in 176: the next
best took i9i swats at the ball while the
third blew" himself TO 2S5 swings
Here IL the record OF golfer No. 3, the
fellow who hung up the record:
out. Oh 7-ie-c1-i7-1S-l7-1s-
ln.............,. -2I-i30
When the trio Of players turned in their
score to the secretary that official looked
A. the cards. gasped, and then exclaimed:
say tell ina, how were you felIovs
able 20 keep track OF all your shotsr'
oh. there wasn't anything hard about
that" answered the 2s6 man 1--WE didn't
have TO count any higher than thirty-one
nj any one hole"
One ON the President.
a golfer. writing to the coifera, Ma1a.
zine says that once upon time no
was golfing with several members OF tho
house OF representatives when President
Wilson caught up with the congressional
foursome.
the congressman invited Wilson to go
through please" whereupon Wilson eaId
/ Il feel some diffidence IN driving through
80 many members Of the house,
one OF the congresmen retorted:
Mr.. President. aren't You accustomed
to driving through the House? 20
Wilson looked sharply at his ques-
TONER and then addressed his ball. But
MS shoulders shook with laughter.
How 60 Treat n Caddy.
George Maxey, a veteran caddy, writ
ing pertinent article concerning the re-
lattonahip Of golfer to caddy in the Col
Iers Magazine, says In part:
IN eight years experience as a casidy
have noticed one thing which offen
puzzles club members. One man will
take caddy and after the game viii
report him a very good boy. The next
day one OF his fellow members win take
the same boy and report him as being
good for nothing.
The reason Ia that the first man
treated the boy well. took him into the
game, as II were. asked his advice and
did not abuse him IL he carried IL ont
badly. The second man started out
wrong, excluded the boy fapm tho game.
blamed him for bad shots, etc The
iirst man may have started out with
Good morning, son. The second prob
ably started out with Where's my kid =
Tho caddy IL human and nothing his
employer says or does escapes him. The
first man had the caddy on his side from
the start. The second man aroused his
antagoniEm with his opening remark The
best golf is secured only with the whole
hearted assistance OF the caddy.
THE caddy can do more TO injure your
game than any one other cause. II he
Is against you. It were better not TO play,
for the things he can devise. 10 annoy
you are many