Evening star., 1922-02-19

owe it to myself and friends to deny
the report in totem and to tell wna1
really come off and will therefore
ask the kind indulgents of my read
ers vile / exclaim the raw deal OF
which / was made a innocent victim.
Well friends, the day after l
reached here there was a man come
up to me in the hotel and says would
1 like to enter in golf tournament
which was just going to begin ana
saws YES as / thought he was jokeins
but the next thing you know he IN
troduced me to a young man name
Mr.. Daniels who he said that ana ne
was uared together in the qualifying
rd
!. Well. as my readers probably
knows there is rule VS.. man
playing a qualifying I'd. alone with
out nobody to help him count his
score, so rather than leave Mr.. Dan
iels without nobody to play with
why / got out my golf sticks ana
played with him and will say at TINS
point that Mr.. Daniels use to be the
champion swimmer of the U. g., but
as far as golf is consern. l I showed
him some new strokes.
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WELL, / will not waste the read
w er's time describing the quail
fying I'd. only to say that MI. Dan
ieIs turned in a 81 which was next to
the low score and personally 1 got a
eagle 11s to say nothing about 4
blisters in one hand and 5th. in
partners and naturally I thought the
incidents was clothes. so you can
imagine my surprise when 1 am set
ting in the hotel again that night
and a friend of mine comes up and
tells me I have qualified in the I'd.
fight and my 1st match game would
be the following A. n. with a Mr.
Oakford who seemed to OF been
named after 2 automobiles.
well" 1 says, you can go and
write the word defaulter in capital
letters opp. my name as 1 haven't
got no time for golf tournaments
which II you get licked everybody
gives you the bird and II you win
they give you a prize that even your
wife don't know if its meant to be
a umbrella holder or cuspidor
But my friends said to not be
spoiled sport and maybe that was the
yery reason this Mr.. Oakford had
came south was on the bear chance
of getting acquainted with some one
l like ], and so and so and this in that
and finely / give in for no reason
only as a favor to Mr.. Oakford ano
how does he treat me in return?
1. He calls me Mr.. Lauder.
2. When I stick my blisters right
in front of his face he don't give
them a rumble though when showed
! them around the hotel men turned
pail and women screened.
2. The only chance I have got to
beat anybody is have them get ner'
yous watching me shoot, but Mr.. Oak.
ford looks the other way.
4. On the Sd hole he slices his tee
shot and the ball goes to he'll and
gone and he says to his caddy you
GO and find that ball and I will give
YOU a quarter, the net results ol
which generous offer is that we don't
see no more of his caddy and my
caddy has to carry both bags and
can't keep my mind on my game on
acct of feeling so sorry for my
| caddy.
r Asst but not lease, Mr.. Oakforo
IL must Of read a article by JOCK
Hutchison or somebody advising golfers
to not pay no tension to anything
that is said to them but keep their
mind on their own game.
So far as listening to my funny
cracks. why he might as well OF been
my wife. And not only that but he
played deaf when I mentioned some.
thing about concedeing puts, but the
worst of all was when we come to the
9Th hole and he was s up and it begin
to rain pitchforks and said ! would
concede the match as I had on new
white pants and hs said yes but he
kept right on playing and had to
play along with him and I conceded
him the match on the 10th. hole and
+, again on the 11th. and he says yes
both times but kept right on playing
and finally I just walked on the
course though it was too late as faI
as my pants was Ct nserned but when
] I quit he was only 6 up and we still
had or to play so no telling how
we would Of came out II had OF
forced him to go through with 1t but
at lease my readers can see for them
sells that was not beat by no such
score as up and only to play like
| the paper had it.
However I am not the kind that
makes excuses WI N they get bea,
and a. far ~ getting beat il. con-