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Show HOLED TEE SHOT IS REAL FEAT IN GOLF Lloyds Say Odds Are 20,000 to 1 Against Trick. , Feat Accomplished by Pierre Proal at Old Seabright Course and Again at Rumson After Lapse of Seventeen Years. When Pierre A. Troal made a hole in one at the old Seabright golf course some seventeen years ago he flt that he had accomplished the feiW f a lifetime. life-time. Since then Proal, plaA!ng regu- larly season after season, has made j thousands of strokes, but not until the other day at Rumson did he manage to j coax another tee shot Into the hole. This happened at the short second bole, only a mashio shot, says a New York dispatch to Indianapolis Star. Proal played hole after hole with little lit-tle deliberation, but, oddly enough, he gathered In two twos during the course of the same round. Every time a one is recorded the i question of odds is brought up. On one occasion the problem was put up : to Lloyds in London, the decision ba- ing that the chances were 20,000 to 1 against the feat being accomplished. Had Charles L. Fletcher, who keeps truck of practically every round he has ever played, made the sixteenth hole, in one at Seabright, nearly a score of years ago and duplicated the performance perform-ance at the second hole on the Rumson course the other day, it would onl have required a question of minutes to glance back over the cards to tell how many chances at possible ones ho had had. How many rounds of golf Proal has had during the last seventeen years is of course purely a matter of conjecture. conjec-ture. The former Harvard man doesn't know himself. However, he plays quite regularly and it is reasonable to assume as-sume he has averaged a couple of rounds a week; a good deal more than that in the summer, less in the off sea-sou. sea-sou. So to carry the analysis further, 100 rounds a year for seventeen years would make 1,700 rounds. Granting that courses over which he played had three short or possible one-shot holes, which would be a fair proposition, Proal would have had 5,100 chances, since he made his first one-spot when a "kid" at Seabright. All of which may not be a very cheerful cheer-ful outlook for the thousands who have not been admitted to the army of "oners," though it should not be forgotten for-gotten that there is no hard and fast rule, and that history records an instance in-stance where a man made two ones in two successive rounds. |
