Imperial Valley press., 1938-02-14
Bench
By b. Kinne
Post - Press
Sports Editor
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Golf has enough handicaps any
way you look at it. But when YOU
have to wait an hour to get on a
course and watch the mug il
charge let four foursomes p,ay
ahead OF you despite the fact YOU
were there first. St. Peter himself
wouldn't be able to hold his temper.
Sunday, at the Municipal course
IN San Diego. I was the victim of
Just such procedure. and to top
1t all off the manager sent some
guy we'd never seen around in our
foursome.
When we finally did get started
the guy who was wished on US BY
the club manager immediately be-
gan a line of chatter. a line he re-
fused to abandon despite the many
black looks aimed at him during
the nine holes We only played
nine hCles because there were two
slow foursomes ahead and we drdnt
finish until dark
The first hole was a nightmare
frDm the tee sho. You see there
were people behind us and they
apparently felt in almost as good
humor as we. They made three
or four bright cracks as we teed
off. The mug with us wanted
t0 figh, EN-. But we pulled him
off and went our way.
About three yards down the fair
way we had to duck three golf balls
being hit by the foursome in back
OF us. Before nine holes had been
completed we each had been hit
eight times and has been bawled
out ten times Tor getting in the way
Of the ball.
People were all over the course.
hitting the ball in all directions.
Twice, when 7 had hit into the
wrong fairway, 1 tried 10 trade balls
with the chap in the other fairway
who was chasing his pellet my way
He wouldn't trade though. possibly
because I was using a tWo-bit ball
and his was a six bitter.
The only sport I had during the
day was when I sliced out Of bounds
and got away from the talkative
chap, whose name I never bothered
to determine.
n looking for my golf ball !
found six others. The talkative
chap said he was willing to divide
all l found with me. But I broke
his heart with a 25-yard tee shot
and he forgot 10 talk for a minute
I Immediately hid the six golf balls.
Finally, it seemed years later. we
arrived at the ninth green. The
manager was there TO meet US with
a flashight
Have a good time" he asked
smilingly. "Yeh," said my uncle
who was playing with me. Just
like a crowded DAY at the beach
only there was no water to cool
Us off when some people got in our
hair"
The talkative one didn't catch
the sarcasm directed at him, in
stead he parted by saying. Glad
you fellows got to play with me"
If Dizzy Dean ever retires from
baseball because of salary differ
ences-as he has often threatened
TO do-he can make a comfortable
living playing goI-according TO
Dizzy Dean.
the Ianky. laughing Dean boasts
that his winnings on the golf course
during the past few months have
amounted to a sizeable sum.
L figure the Bobby Jones golf
course has been worth about $1,000
to me in the last two seasons" said
Dizzy. reflectively.
Last year I won plenty, includ-
ing a check for $500 that prompt
ly spent for a new automobile for
my wife.
Winning a hundred or so a day
was as easy as shutting out the
Cincinnati Reds
Dizzy uses one Of the most amaZ-
ing putting stances in all golfdom
He humps over the ball, his left
toe on a line with the ball and his
long right leg protruding yard OF
more TO the southwest. But he
strokes the ball, and drops them
in from all angles