Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-06-11 | Page 15 | This Game of Golf

1 I Th s Gamt OF GOLF i l By 0 O. B. B Keeler J Bobb Bobby Jones has added an unusual bullseye e to his record of at a single hole hole- none shots and he now no poss es one onel of f each The bullseye was achieved during the progress of hIs Ills motion i series cries i I suppose p the bullseye e was the flU funniest fun fun- r niest shot ever mOde made in some ways Bobby was working at the Flintridge Country club near Hollywood and andic he ic was to demonstrate some big iron shots hots The camera was vas mounted with the he lens about seven feet above the turf on a platform Both camera and cameraman were protected by hea heavy padding READY AIM AIrI FIRE Bobby was stationed Just 50 feet away armed with a a. No 2 iron Now said the director try to hit the camera try camera try to hit the lens Jens Bet you a dollar you cant can't hit it Ina Ina in ina a dozen shots said an onlooker Bobby squared of off and assumed his stance The bullseye was a square black lack opening known as the mat box which pi projects ejects in front of the lens ens shielding it from indirect rays of the sun It is 15 our four inches square at athe atthe atthe the he outside diminishing in a series of or aluminium ridges as it narrows down to the lens Roll em sang out the assistant director giving the signal to start the camera and sound recording ma mar chines said the big Iron And And And- Whack 1 said the ball smacking the mat mat box box f fairl fairly airly in Ill the center On the screen you could hear the shrieks of or delighted amazement from the he crew as you OU saw the ball flash upward disappear for a hundredth of a second and then blot out the scene with a huge black disk that just admitted a little angle of ot light at each corner of the screen the ball covered cred Bobb Bobby and er e everything else It stuck fast in the box anH to be plucked out badly chewed up b by the metal ridges into which It was wedged EASIER THAN AN ACE I The camera kept rolling Tolling along like Old Man River and the sound-record sound caught a lot of or conversation which probably didn't get Into the finished picture But the first shot was a a. perfect bullseye and subsequent shots some at slow-motion slow smacked solidly aK against tho the padding within six Inches of or the lens to show up in the picture as if coming right out in the composite composite compo compo- site face of or the audience Its a a. good deal easier casler than mak Ing ng a in hole said Bobby I had been playing golf ROt some 20 years when I C got m my only ace ace in in 1927 at the 11 ii hole East Lake a shot of yards ards Im I'm glad it didn't wreck the camera But they told me to hit it 1 if I could