Sport: At Last, Goodman

When Richard Male's iron shot from the 7th tee hit an apple tree, it stuck in the crotch, 15 ft. from the ground. He conceded the hole. When Reynolds Smith's ball rolled into a hole made by one of Oregon's gophers, the United States Golf Association's general counsel searched his rule book, finally found a clause providing that a ball may be moved without penalty if it enters a hole made by a "burrowing animal " The U.S.G.A.'s President John U Jackson pronounced the galleries the biggest since Bobby Jones retired, complimented...

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