Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1913 — QUEER DISPUTE IS SETTLED [ARTICLE]

QUEER DISPUTE IS SETTLED

Golf Ball Is Driven Over Center Field Bleachers of New York National League Ground*. The dispute between golfers and baseball players as to whether a golf ball could be driven from the home plate at the Polo Grounds In New York over the center field bleachers was decided in the affirmative the other day. Grantland Rice, golfer and baseball writer, and Oswald Klrkby, widely known amateur golfer, both succeeded In making the drive. Rice put over one ball In four, and Klrkby two In four. The golfers drove against the wind, but the ball carried ever the top of the fence, which is about 60 feet high at this point, by about 15 feet A brassy was used for the drives, and it is estimated that the carry was about 200 yards. The distance from the home plate to the fence is about 165 yards. No ball player has ever been able to drive a pitched ball even into the lower part of the center field. Manager McGraw of the Giants saw the feat performed.