Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-08-24

has been playing beautiful golf AT Rala
LOT week All the well-known locals
arc entered, though some OF the very
best are out OF town and, therefore.
VIII not be on hand.
Charles H. Schwab. chairman OF the
bethlehem Steel Corporation, is an ardent
golfer although he often laughingly SAYS
II Is lucky for his stockholders that he
knows moro about making steel than he
does about making shots.
Recently, while he was at Lehigh Uni
versity, OF which he is a trustee, and
from which he holds the honorary degree
of doctor OF engineering. schwab told
about playing on the links at White Sui
phur Springs last winter
j was doing my direst. One shot I
missed the ball altogether. On the next
raised lt-and also a great lot Of grass
and earth. Honest Injun, I said TO the
this?'
Honest 1niun, Mr.. Schwab,' replied
the boy disgustedly, 4 never did,"
There is little white wooden shack 60
the right of the 18th hole at the Bon Air
Country Club. II is some 30 yards from
the tee and is used as sleeping quarters
Tor the Italian workmcn on the course. II
is in direct line Of all sliced shots and is
wabbling on It's pins
To windward, or rather shotward, there
is not n plank in the walls that Is not
badly battered and splntered. Some day
ball will take the shack in vital
spot and then 1t is felt it will fall, after
the ceaseless bombardment that Il has
undergone, like a pack of cards.
Many stories are told of life in the
shack. ball once pierced the heavy
wire netting over the window and scram-
bled basket of eggs standing on the
mantelpiece. As there was nobody home
and the door was open. the player amused
himself trying 10 get out. He stood on
chair and tried to bounce his ball to
the floor and out the door. But he broke
three more eggs and the ball rolled under
the bed. So he crawled under and knocked
the ball out behind the coal scuttle. From
there he got over an old shoe to the mid
die of the room and with his mashe ran
the ball out on TO the piazza He took
his brassie and had a long ball from
there down the fairway. Since this expe-
rience he is working on the idea of a
vacuum club, to be worked like vacuum
cleaner and to be used in mean places.
The dangers of young birds loafng on
aerial street corners was demonstrated
again last week A large black crow
stepped Off the curb so to speak, TO grab
at bug In the region over the Wood
bury course.
Charles Green got excited over a brassle
shot and sent an express ball down the
line. "Fore"' he yelled, but the bird
failed TO hear and came TO earth In a
burst of feather with despairing squawk
The bird was laid to rest meath the sands
of neighboring bunker. Green got an
other bird" the same day. but it was a
much prettler one, he says
Among the most enthusiastic golfng
members OF the Merton Cricket Club is
one-armed w. NJ. Swain. He plays at
every opportunity and is able to trim a
great many of his more fortunate fellow
members. His putting is very fine and his
mashie shots deadly With the wood he
is necessarily short, but is straight He
uses a short shaft and brings his left
arm straight back without bending the
elbow. Swain also drives his own car.