Evening star., 1930-10-30
Worn, Turns for Bill UIIn,a1n,
King among Hard Luck Golfers

~ ILL ULLMAN of Congressional
x always has been a hard luck
guy. Ullman is one Of those
golfers whose ball always hits
on the of slope Of little hillock and
instead of kicking on the green kicks
into a bunker or some such hazard.
His puts go up and kiss the rim
of the cup and stay out, and his
smashing brassie shots always catch q
bunker at the end of their roll. Last
year Bill became involved in an in
cident with a snake at Congressional,
and another member of the match.
finding a snake coiled around Birs
ball, got snooty and made Bill play
1t as it lay.
That's the kind of breaks Bill gets.
He even has to kill innocent snakes
to get around the golf course. He
PLAYS every day (alnn 1st) in the hope
that the next snake will not be
copperhead.
But Bill thinks his luck is turning
for the better because Of an incident
that gave him considerable Joy at Con-
gressional and gave Thomas Bradley,
the barrister and golfer pain in the
neck. Bill get the break on this oc-
casion, admits it, and hopes 1t Is the
beginning of the end of his hard luck
streak. Now Bill is a gentle soul who
never squawks about his hard luck.
He may remark that he played a good
shot and it ended badly, but he never
really squawks. So there you have the
picture. Now listen to the good luck
that came Bills way.
He was playing in three-ball match
at Congressional with Bradley and r.
T. Eddingsheld. and not doing so badly.
No snake had appeared at the first
three holes and Bill was in good
humor as he drove Of the fourth tee,
for he had got past the worst holes
and the easy ones were in front of him.
Bill got behind one Of his very best
tee shots at the fourth hole, a ball
which carried smack up against the
face of the big bunker on the hill at
the left. And he watched hopefully to
see that hard-hit ball Jump out Of the
shallow trap and roll down in the fair
way, but it didn't go down.
Then Eddingsfield got UP and hit one
into the same trap The ball bounced
out And Bradley got up and hit an
other into that same trap. Deyereuz
EIu1ucU knew WI1dJ ne WAS ADOuL WIlcn
he placed that trap there, for 1t catches
lot Of golf balls. And Bill watched
Bradley's ball carry into the bunker
and then saw a ball bounce merrily out
onto the fairway. It Just about spoiled
Bills day to nit one of his best and
stay in the bunker, particularly after
his two friends had done the same
thing and their pellets had jumped out
Bill walked up the hill, singing the
popular song, Blasting With Tears in
My Eyes," and waded into the bunker
to take his medicine. Alongside the
trap were two other golfers who had
come over the hill at the fifth hole as
Bill and his comrades drove from the
fourth tee. They watched Bill in
terestedly as he walked into the trap.
The caddies snickered and Bill looked
around to SEQ what it was all about
Then he looked at his ball 1t looked
strange, and he leaned down. Across
the face Of the pill was written
Bradley"
They looked further down In the
fairway and down there 40 yards in
front of the bunker they found Ull-
mans ball. Then the men who were
playing the fifth told the story.
Bills ball lay in the yielding sand
in the bunker and along came Bradley's
ball. 1t hit BillS ball right on the
nose. knocked 1t out of that bunker,