Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 303, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — UNUSUAL HANDICAP IN GOLF [ARTICLE]

UNUSUAL HANDICAP IN GOLF

Extremely Nervous Player Unable to Play Good Game on Account of Anticipated Noise. An unusual golf handicap was played on one of the local links recently, the proponent of the same winning hands down. One of the rules of golf is that one must not talk to a player when he is about to make a drive, nor must others discuss any subject in his hearing. It might take his mind off the game for just an instant and that might be fatal. In Kansas City lives a crack but extremely nervous golf enthusiast. He had been in the habjt of beating a fat and phlegmatic friend until the latter tired of it. “I’ll tell you what I’ll do," the friend said not long ago. “I will play you eighteen holes if you will give me a handicap." “Done,” said the nervous player. “Name the handicap.” “There times during the game, and not more than three, I am to be permitted to s£and behind you and say ‘Boo’ while you are preparing to drive.” Every time it was the nervous man’s play his fat friend walked up and just stood behind him. Never ouce during the game did the fat man say “Boo!” or anything else. But the anticipation at the expected “Boo!” was fairly nerve-shattering, and the fat man won hands down. —Kansas City Journal.