New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-23

There are freak plays in baseball.
freak Turns in boxing and freak cpl
sodes in football, but probably no game
has as many freak happenings as golf.
Scotias ancient pastime is as full OF
freak shots as some golfers are Of
alibis, which is a sufficient quantity TO
last for quite q spell.
A Notable Two.
You can never tell from the drive just
what is going 10 happen. In tourna-
ment played at the Nashville Country
Club one day Goodloe Lindsey. an old
Yale golfer, topped his tee shot at the
tenth hole, ordinarily a drive and
pitch. He decided to use his brassie on
the second shot, as he was some 200
yards away from the green. A wide
hook followed, and the ball sailed out
OF bounds, only to strike telegraph
pole across the street, bound back
upon the green and drop in the cup
for 2. .
-. A Freak Record.
One Of the freakiest shots We ever
saw was at the East Lake course. At
lanta. Reynolds Tichenor, playing from
the fifteenth tee, sliced his drive. The
ball sailed out into a parallel fairway
where another golfer WAS in the act
Of PLAYING a full midiron shot TO the
twelfth green. Greatly to this latter
players astonishment. just as his club
head was about six inches from his
own ball a flying missile struck the
iron blade at the proper spot ana
sailed $50 yards up the course. HIS
own ball had not moved, and yet he had
distinctly seen golf ball leave
his club and sail merrily upon its way.
The answer was that he had struck
Tichenor's ball in the air and the I'M
pact had detected the blade from its
original target. -,
You Never Can Tell.
No. you can never tell what will
happen in golf. A few days ago Os-
valid Kirby was playing in four.
ball match at Englewood. His second
shot struck on the green. but trlckled
into g trap just beyond. In attempting
TO get out his ball struck the side OF
IN. trap and dropped back jam up
against IT, Not only this, but 1t also
dropped neatly into a deep heel PRINT.
"fhere is no use in trying 10 play
this shot out" he remarked. for its
absolutely unplsyable." Al which point
he gave the ball careless wallop win
the niblick without even taking a
stance for the shot when, very greatly
10 his amazement and TO the profound
annoyance Of his two opponents. the
ball hopped blitheiy out and trickled
into the cup for a par 4.
Another Engiewood Shot.
Even rarer than this is the story OF
a shot that fell to the lot OF Harry
d. eastman At the eighteenth hole at
Enelewood This hole is ITO yards IN
length. There is high bank 10 the
right. and still further to the right
Of thi. bank. 20 yards from the green
and IL feet above II on a plateau, is
q thick green hedge.
Csshman's tee shot. sliced. struck
upon the plateau to the right OF the
green and apparently disappeared from
sight in the emerald hedge. Then. just
as Mr.. eastman was in the act OF Ut
tering a number Of profound general
tiles regarding golf in all its branches,
the ball began 10 trickle out OF the
hedge. caught the slope. trickled down
the steep bank and slid gracefully into
the cup for q very useful I. The ball
evidently struck q section Of the hedge
on its way in and bounded out from
an unplayable position into the cup,
saving a matter Of 4 strokes.
Colonel W. b. Hanna relates the
story Of another most remarkable oe-
currsncs. On Q Kansas course Q certain