Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 264, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1917 — ACT OF CADDIE DISQUALIFIED [ARTICLE]

ACT OF CADDIE DISQUALIFIED

Fearing Golfer Would Lose Through His Carelessness, He Surreptitiously Dropped Ball. Golfers in the West are talking of the way a dishonest caddie brought disqualification to John Black, the Claremont professional, in the Pacific Northwest championship recently played. Black’s caddie failed to keep his eye on the ball and when the gallery began looking for it the caddie fefiring that Black would lose through his carelessness, surreptitiously propped a new' ball without notifying the player of his action, and Black played the rest of the round with it. /When through the caddie’s boasting of his act the circumstance became known, the tournament officials felt they could do nothing but disqualify Black, .who-“took his medicine” in a true, sportsmanlike spirit.