Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-09-30
Takes Turtle in Ribs
With Brassie Shot and
Amphibian Bites Dust
Other Shots
Rv SANDY MeNIBLICK

TusT pickle my bones. Thus. plaintive
81 TO the ceiling have been viewed the
yips Of many a golfer, but to few has come
the fate which befel a small six-inch
amphibIan nj the seaview Golf Club.
Today they are serving REAL golfers
soup there.
'Tis snapper and Il has the celebrating
outdoor tang of links action such as Is
seldom tasted
Danny Darreff took the medal for his
own yesterday for low score In the ancient
and honorable tourney over the seaside
course. but while he was doing II, "strate
add American golf history" was written
with a vengeance by L. ID. Hemphill, West
Chester.
Golfer Hemphill did deed such as one
reads about, but which seldom comes to
pass in real life.
While the Heavens Wept
The bottom was falling out OF the skies
as he took his brassie in hand for the
second shot on hole No. at the Absecon
course. II deluged over his iron-gray
head and poured from the tips OF his
beard. But he minded II not as he cooked
his eve and took aim between two saplngs
that blocked his approach TO the green a
couple of hundred yards away. His ball
was on the edge of sand trap and II
needed n mighty wallop on a straight line
to carry pinwards.
Hemphill took the mighty wallop
Columns of rain clouded his view of the
flight of the ball, but he heard a dull
thud and thought II had struck one of the
small trees. He and his partner, Emmet
ONeill. Cricket Club, and their caddies,
searched everywhere on the fairway and in
the traps but could find no ball.
Some moving thing, lmping in tho di-
rection of the hole, caught the eye of
AS he watched fascinated, the thing
suddenly turned over and after a short
pawings in the air with four feeble feet,
IL was still.
Golfer o'Neill approached it cautiously
and turned 1t over with his nibic
He at once recognized it as the we'll
known spotted trottng tiger turtle. Its
turquoise shelter of a back was crushed,
and, set like jewel in its mdrib was
golf ball. gashed, slashed, but yet a golf
ball.
ITS mine," exclaimed Hemphill when he
came running up.
Sure enough 1t was. The turtle had been
headed on a straight line for the hole. But
for the heavy rainfall and the premature
drowning of the "critter" all present agreed
that the ball would likely have been carried
to the flag. and likely the turtle would have
fallen In the cup. making as perfect golf
story as was ever presented for local
fandom.
Good Snapper
AS 1t was the turtle, interorally speak.
ing, was converted into soup, and the lively
thickness is attributed to the rubber con-
slstency of the golf ball, which, of course,
could not be left out Of the golf concoction.
Those tasting thereof today were fore
warned, and only the dyed-in-the-wool
fanatic, of course, ordered the delicacy
The skeleton and shell of the turtle are on
.an,.
bottled against the assaults of time in a
jar of alcohol. 1t rises simply to the sur
face with a reassuring bubble or two at the
pressure of hand II recognizes as that of a
true golf fanatic and solemn believer in. the
casualties Of the great little game of golf.
Those not believing that Golfer Hemphill
actually made the remarkable big-game kill
may view his victim between the hours OF
and at the Seavlew Golf Club, Absecon,
N. j., from hence forward.
The silverlocked West Chesterian hunter
has had some few years of golf.
II have slaughtered a robin in my golf
wanderings and once killed another kind
Of bird" said Hemphill. as he held up his
victim of yesterday by it's tail to the ad-
miring throng. but never before have /
killed a beast of the field"
Also on Land
The high and low record for successive
holes was made by Arthur NJ. Wood Aroni-
| mink, famous as q cricketer long before
he began to achieve prowess on the links,
yesterday at Seaview.
He got into all the trouble possible on
the difficult twelfth and before he had
timed out his ball he was guilty of the
same number of strokes as the number of
the hole, the twelfth.
He then took his old cricket stance, grip
and mashie and faced the thirteenth much
as he would have faced bowler of old.
The result was that he got a two. Which
Is the well-known game of percentage
The greens at Seaview yesterday i'm
| pressed the veterans. none OF whom were
less than fifty-five years of age. to a great