Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-07-16
THREE INTERESTING GOLF
PROBLEMS TO DISCUSS
Tom Halton and Herb Newton Take Opposite Sides in
Deciding Two of Them-Can You Give
the Correct Decision?
Bv WILLIAM H. EVANS

THE Father and Son tournament at
l. the Whitemarsh Valley Country Club
last week brought out a couple of golf
problems which are submitted to the
golf readers for a decision. Thomas
Halton, the chairman of the green COM
mit,ee at Whtemarsh. and Herb New
ton, the sage of the Frankford Country
Club, started the discussion, and it is
still on.
Along the sixth fairway to the left is
a war garden. Newton hooked his ball
on his tee shot and the ball landed a
foot or so inside the farway. The war
garden is ground under repair. That
started the argument. To play the ball
Herb had to stand in the war garden,
and to make matters worse, the garden
was full Of bean poles. and Herb could
not get swing without banging into
the poles and The bean vines.
Who Was Right?
He claimed that he was not obliged
to stand in ground under repair while
Halton said he did, as there is no rule
giving him the right to drop the ball. as
it already lay in the fairway. while
If the ball had landed in the bean patch
he would have the right to drop out
without penalty. Herb then said he had
the right to pull up the bean poles and
again Halton claimed that he could not
move bend or break either the poles or
the vines, except in getting his stance.
All this conversation was carried on
good-naturedly.
Out or this grew another discussion.
/ Newton said that he had the right to
stand out of bounds in playing ball
| in bounds. and Halton admitted the
! truth of this
/ Very good" remarked Herb "I
: claim the right under the circumstances
of bending, moving, or breaking anything
fixed or growing. In other words, If |
am out of bounds there is no rule to
observe because the rules have nothing
| to do with anything out Of bounds. OF
course. | cannot do any If these things
if I am standing in bounds. but my con-
tention is that as the property out OF
bounds is not a part of the course l
am not governed by rules that apply to
play in bounds
HaltCn took the other ground that
he is governed by the rules of the game
whether he stands in bounds or out
of bounds, if in the latter case his ball
is in bounds, but Herb could not see II
that way, and the numerous fathers and
sons who heard the discussion were
! evenly divided on the two points in play.
What is your decision in the matter
How About This One?
Here Is another golf problem. In a
, mixed foursome match where selective
drives were used one of the women
| drove into a ditch, and the man elected
| to play the second shot as his tee
shot was poor At this particular clut
there is a local rule which permits the
women to lift out of the ditch without
penalty. There is carry of i40 yards
and women adopted this rule as few Of
them can carry the hazard.
The point was whether he should be
allowed to lift out without penalty oil
drop for the loss of the stroke penalty
One of the players contended that as
the woman had driven the shot there wa!
no penalty, as the play was not com
plete until the ball was actually lifted
AS she would lift it the woman's rul'
maintained. Another player claimed thai
as the man elected TO play the SECOND