Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1913 — GOLF BALL BURST; EYE IS OUT [ARTICLE]

GOLF BALL BURST; EYE IS OUT

Son of Assistant United States Attorney Hawken at Washington, D. C., Is Victim. Washington.—An explosive golf ball may cost the sight of Stafford Hawken, the twelve-year-old son of Assistant State’s Attorney Hawken. The boy is in the hospital, where the physicians declare the sight of his right eye is destroyed, but they hope to save the other eye. Acid in the core of the golf ball exploded while the lad was engaged in seeking to discover the ball's composition. . V .