SOME GOLF STORIES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 85, 30 May 1911, Page 5

SOME GOLF STORIES.

Coif stories, both impossible and otherwise, arc told by everyone who, in the picturesque American language, has “chased the little liver pill.” Mr. Horace Hutchinson, writing in the “Westminster Gazette,” tells of an incident in his career which few would accept on trust, and which ho finds does not always meet with belief, when told by himself. He was at Biarritz, and a man stopped him with the remark, “If you will allow me, 1 should like to tell you of the most extraordinary shot, as 1 believe, ever played at golf.” He added that it was Hutchinson himself who had made it. As far hack as 188 Sin the amateur championship at Prestwick, Mr. Hutchinson had hit a hall high into the air and over a neighbouring bill, ft could not bo found. After a kmg search a spectator bethought himself of a sudden pull he had felt in his inside breast pocket, put his hand there, and produced the ball. He bad not seen it go in, nor bad any of the many spectators. Generally speaking, when a player finds his hall—and a new one, lon—in a spectator’s pocket, he is apt to draw hasty conclusions. A story very hard of credence but unite true, is that of a hall impaling itself on the point of one of the great rushes for which tho Westward Ho! golf links are famed. That a driven ball could thread itself on a lady’s hatpin of the modern style, no one will dispute. Tbe last story must not be prejudiced because it contains a fish, hut should lie taken on its merits. A player drove a low skimming ball over a salmon stream, and a rising fish intercepted its flight with disastrous results. The hall, being a Dunlop Junior, sank, hut the list) floated down stream and was salvaged I)s' the caddies.