Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-06-20
DADDY The Horrible Tale Of a Game Of Golf At
en !, j. sssF Fargo Last Sunday.

yards. Pretty o 8trenahan and
Father Ramsbottom ignored w and
got tnto a little two-bt-a-hole SON.
test Of their own. I.don't know how
they came out, for they called u to
hike for the funeral train before We
finished the seventeenth hole. That
call was the sweetest song I ever
have heard sung. I picked the poor
old wounded golf ball up and hdked
for the locker room ~ fAAt a I
could.
When I breezed out to the Fargo
Country club, CARRIED In one Of Jack
Ruetteeys l1nock-em-cold golf suits
and carrying a caddy back full of
clubs the Fargo players scattered
have a little conference.
who'll play that guy?" they asked
my word" said this Bristol shark,
I'm afraid Of, him. He looks too
much for me-"
Look at that suit" pipea up Tom
Holy smoke. see tho clubs. he
totes" shouted another. It'll bet
four dollars that's Chick Evans, for
I heard Shirt schlosser can him
Well You don't get me to play
him." they all said.
Jim Rockwell was a seaf-sacrtnciae.
fclss, and he volunteered himself for
Bal PanSHtz and his opponent,
yclept Ben Tghe, we're booked to 90
along with US to give Rockwell
~stinnnlants after every shot I took.
The other Grand Forks players and
their murderers got started ahead Of
il. Pretty soon It was time tor the
last n11ANfA$ "a w$oH% ANT -stHt.fE
Well, Ben" says, this Pauovits
lad, step up and wa1lop It"
stepped UP on the little Indian
mound which they butt there on the
Fargo oouse and I placed my ball
on q little bed Of Red River sand.
Then, with the Ruetter knickers
aAshing in the sun, I took a stance
and politely addressed the ball. I
sswung on that bill and missed it.
new out pf place, and SIX doctors
haven't been able to get them back.
swung again and 1t moved about
four feet. The gallery was patient
and courteous, and looked like the
arst edition Of nnurder.
] addressed the ball again. but not
politely. Take a"rde you little
pellet, take a ride" and I missed
the Damn thing By a>foot. Then /
00UL&10 i y0Os1uQ s9W01lOP0U II Il8uy
~eAntdships and shot 1t over into . Few
piles OF dirt which q ditch digger had
thrown up in tho course. When I got
tho ban into the hole I had counted
ten. ) *
There's? no suSes recalling the tragic
occurrences sof that day. they 4 ton
|pitdful. and besides Rockwell wants
to forget them.
It was just ~ bad in the afternoon.
They told me that Stranahan would
play with onay one hand. but every
time he swung the club he used both
hands. and OF course I couldn't beat
him.
don't know how the 5 81 the
bays played, but the said they were
L1otten.. Lean believe them too.
Hewitt nearly had 10 walk home. hut
he happened to scrape enouGh to-
gsther 10 tAket tho train. MerbSRocker
6Ad box OF candy which hesetOie
from oneao8gthe naddie0 and he spAmed
tlha& eround. Charlie Murphy WA
unite cheety. Tor III trimmed TWaehell.
~ 49, the only Grand EnrkssSman
70 Win his eA~snesexc9pt 1CasaplA Who
topk the FAyao prcfsaonal9dcwnt the
Efane q = little.axS #ss
Ihee Eas9n ISSSyasS ase sopaains u
E4AeA naxxs oA<IfaaS. h4t they won't
Ao%GAlo 10 fnaS me-.
ESTAey enRAN Z know bethue anyway
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