Show FREAKS OF GOLF BALLS BALL Occasionally FJ II Sphere Kills flirt Bird imil On o a a Sheep It I does oes not often oren happen that i a abird bird falls a a. a victim to a golf goU ball bali InIs Ir In its Is Ight Slight llight although such a mishap ha has occurred in two or ai three instances Instances Not ot long ago an Incident of or tin this kind was reported from rein Raynes Ranes ParK Pan Golf club It I took place In n tho the course cours of or a bog bogy competition One of the thu players a Mr Crocker having driver driven off at the eleventh tee his iris ball bal created some astonishment by coming in contact contact con con- i tact with a lark In iii midair and literally liter liter- ller- ller ally all knocked knocke off Us its Is head aly A similar incident happened last lasi season but one on UI the tine ground of the tho Birkdale club Two members were playing a n round when hemr one of them made mulo a brassy brasy shot The ball bal was In full Might when a bird of or the tIre wag wag- wagtail tall tail species was seen scent crossing the line lne of light llight Ight and the tine next moment both objects camo imro into collision at a C distance distance dis dis- tance of or about fort forty Carty paces from the tire striker The consequences were fatal to the unfortunate bird which winch was wa not only only- killed but decapitated As for tire tho golf kid ball Its It was stopped stopped by bythe bythe the Impact the tIre ball bail hal falling to the tire ground within a few yards ards of its It slaughtered victim The incident had the tire further effect of losing the player the tire match he Ire 1 having havinG to make an nn extra stroke or two to cover the tire distance distance dis dis- tance short covered this costing him the tire game A still bUl more moro extraordinary freak of ofa ofa ofa a golf gal ball baJ resulted In Iii n a tragedy on oin the tine links in Scotland Inthe In Iii Inthe the tine course of a match malch one of the players in iii 11 his drive from the sixth tee tec put so much vigor Igor into unto it that the tire ball struck a sheep heep on the head with bal such force as ns to cause cam e it to fall Cal dead on tire the spot A very ver different but no less les interesting interesting inter inter- esting stor story was reported from froni an- an an another other links In Scotland about tho the same time In a foursome match played at North tm Berwick Derwick ono of or tho tine golfers drove his ball hal against a 0 wall wal It I re rebounded re- re bounded Into some rough grass gras and for tor a fow few el minutes minute's could not bo be traced but ultimately the cad caddie le found the ball lying in hr n a larks lark's nest in which th there were four eggs all al unbroken For Fur lo a ball bali to drop Into unto a nest of or eggs without breaking nn an any was surely urel an extraordinary occurrence It Is not nut lon long since nc a player at WokIng Woking Wok Wok- Ing I In approaching the hole hol lan landed ed a ball bail bal on the tine top tal of or the tire clubhouse Tins This little Incident did dl not riot however upset his equilibrium very much As followed owed tho the thobal nimbly as he could coul be tol ball to the roof and from trum that col coign n of rf bal disadvantage played It so well ehi that lie he was wa successful In Iii securing a half considered ered of Dr a hole which cr c everybody body Irretrievably lost host 1 A similar scene cene was once witnessed on Mi the St St. S1 Andrews links in the tho course of uC f a thre three ball match One of the tire players happened to tu drive his ball bali baJ on onto ono onto to o the tire corrugated iron roof of a a shed shell and In n the th belief that ho ire 11 had mad consequent consequently conse conse- quent given up up the Ire hole tire the other otherl l two wo calmly proceeded with wih the match Jut But lut they had reckoned without their hos rost t. t for tho the next moment there was wasa wasu a u C great clatter of feet on on the tire Iron roof Barely had the tue warning cry of or Fore reached tho tire Ila players players' I ears ear when a ball bal close b It whizzed on lo to tho the course by I I was vas that of tho other player who had irad mounted to tho the roof root and ila played d It from that unexpected corner Lon Lon London don OI Til It lH |