New Britain herald., 1928-05-21
|UNDAUNTED GOLFERS PLAY
 AT SHUTTLE MEADOW CLUB
Carter Coholan, Germond and Frisbie Swim Through Course to Win Best Ball Event-Total of B En. tries Brave Anger of Elements to Get in Their Game-Good Scores Turned in Despite the Weat,. er-First Hole-in-One is Scored by Germond.

If Saturdays golf tournament at Shuttle Meadow had been staged at St. Andrews the rain would have been designated as Scotch mist :" Wet Friday. wetter Saturday and most wet Sunday dampened the golf ing ardor of many a player who had planned weekend rounds. Real Scottish conditions prevailed locally as S2 various handicapped men set out Saturday in foursomes. It was a best ball. half added handicap tourney. played in a drizzle.
 Max Hart. Judge Kirkham and Frank Shields apeared at the first tee encased in rubber slickens. Other players chose to play. clothed in various woolen garments It was no day for perfection in golf dress. the wet must be kept out at all sacrifices to looks.
 It was too damp for 'keck" Parker. chairman of the tournament committee. He retired to his shack in Pennington. But Earl Higbce and President Howard Humphrey saw to it that the event started on schedule. The dew on the grass shortened the roll of drives and iron shots on the fairways. The moisture ran off balls as they sped toward the hole after putting strokes. Many puts stopped too quickly.
 The week before Old Man Par had enlisted the west wind as his faithful ally. but Saturday he was entrench- l ed behind a soggy course that added to the players troubles. It was we'll that the handicaps wers increased. they fitted we'll into the conditions nature produced.
 For a rainy day it was a tolerably successful tourney. Eight foursomes rapidly teed off shortly after o'clock and by 5 o'clock all had finished the 18th hole. That is the wet players had posted their scores. taken a shower given their alibis and and gone on home to make peace with the family.
 All in all the scores were pretty good and some samples of excellent golf wore displayed. Most everyone was steady and got a deal Of satts- faction out of his afternoons battle waged under adverse conditions. | Robert E. Carter. w. T. Coholan, R. (. Germond and Robert T. Fris- bic made up the foursome which captured the prize. They scored l S5-4o-4o.
 Those that entered were true dyed-in-the-sweat golfers The bloom of youth may have departed from many of them but that did not keep them from the play. In spite of the rain they were care free and weather blind. They made their shots In the best of spirits and their com. ments on the weather's pranks were tinged more with humor than with grumbling. The rain gods could mol spoil the halliday dedicated to the golfin1 idols.
 There were the president of [ bank and a vice-president of q local factory, with their partners, playing against each other. Boys could not get more sport out of wet day thar did these veteran golfers. They were engaged in a tight match. Now on, and then the other led his partne, in taking hole from his opponents At the turn points difference separated them. That point repre- eented the favor Lady Luck" hat bestowed upon the vice president crew. Many a truely- aimed putt o the bankers had all but dropped ant
 he was looking for the "lady's'
 smile on the upper nine.
 Not discouraged when no favo appeared on the first hole nor th second. those behind fought up hil
 and down glade to emerge from th
 contest not far from the victors and
 by all means, the best of losers. Lucl
 had followed their opponents bu