| Show It Pays to Read the Rule Book Before Yon Lay Any Golf Bets Heres Here's Story of How Beebe Trims Nick tile the Greek for Plenty of Jack in Match latch By JACK KOFOED New York Evening Evening- Journal Sports Writer MIAMI NIck BEACH the Greek and this guy named Beebe walk walkout walkout out to the first tee Nick is quite a gambler by and large and If ff you want a wager on anything you will find him Quite i to accommodate He will give you 8 to 5 that the next truck coming along the east cast side of West street will have the letter E somewhere in the firm name or r will vilI take 2 to 1 against the same proposition Nick the Greek and Beebe are golf goH ers because everybody everybody- along the main nain stem who gets up before 3 ClOck o'clock in the afternoon is playing These rhese fellows take a crack at it and md are converted They think it is the he grandest game ever Invented and andI andE I E am inclined to agree However and nevertheless there probably are not two worse golfers to o be found on any first tee between Winged Pebble Bench best cst is bout about seven strokes a hole for lor the he par threes and ten for the par I fives ives if they are very hot No Small Potatoes will we play for tor asks 1 Nick Uck the Greek who is never able to enjoy any game unless there are some ome potatoes hinging on it How will vill five hundred dollars a ahole 1 hole suit you asks Beebe So the Greek hits a pip down the airway about 75 yards with only a little ittle slice on It it and looks at Beebe with a great big smile Wipe SWipe the blood off that onel he heays says ays so triumphantly that Beebe three wild swipes and when 1 he IC finally reaches the green has 27 shots hots to eight for Nick the Greek and I picks Dicks up without putting Well as it turns out B Beebe is out out- classed for tor the first f five fe e holes H Hannot cannot annot hit the broad side ot of a barn and md takes seven vell or eight putts pulls on onery every ery green However 1 the weather I La is getting bad indeed and by the I time Lime they reach the sixth t tee it Is raIning very hard arid and Nick the reek Greek is five up which means that I he IC Is 2500 on the ice Need Raincoats Now this fellow Beebe is just as asgood good a sport as Nick the Greek and md besides he figures he may get geta a i break on one hole anyway Look he says this weather Sc b good only for lor ducks and pelicans and other feathered friends and I have no desire to catch pneumonIa or r even n a sore throat Suppose we play this hole hole for tor double or nothing and go back to the clubhouse where I am sure we may persuade the bartender bartender bar bar- tender to mix a carbolic highball Then the struggle in the raIn be gins and Beebe surprises himself anc and Nick the Greek too by getting orthe or on the green in eight shots which is i exactly the same as NIck has Nick hits a hell of a niblick shot I from 20 feet away and when his ball ballI I comes to rest on the soggy carpet it ii itis is covered with mud The Greek Greeli starts to pick it up to wipe off the dIrt din when stops him You cannot do a thing like that to tc tome me he sa sas Do touch thai t pill pm But I am telling you ou says Nick that this is ic well velI within the law The rule book says ays ii man can wipe mud off his ball whenever he fells feUs it essary and I feel teel that it is necessary neo essary now Tell that to General Lejeune o 0 one ot of the other marines marinec says sas You are arc not going to do nothing ot ol the sort lIeres lIere's the Moral Th There re is nothing else Nick the Greek can do so he putts and he putts and he putts and with all that dirt din dirton on it he may just Ut as well be putting p the baby's blocks The result of it itis is that Beebe wins the hole finishes all square and saves himself five I am trying to find a moral for lor this tale tale but the only one I can think of is that you will do very well for lor yourself sometimes if you make your opponent read the rule book too |
