Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1918 — HOLED TEE SHOT IS REAL FEAT IN GOLF [ARTICLE]

HOLED TEE SHOT IS REAL FEAT IN GOLF

Lloyds Say Odds Are 20,000 to 1 Against Trick. Peat Accomplished by Pierre Proa! at Old Seabright Course and Again at Rumaon After Lapse of Seventeen Year*. When Pierre A. Proal made a hole In one at the old Seabright golf course some seventeen years ago he felt that he had accomplished the feat of a lifetime! Since then Proal, playing regularly, season after season, has made thousands of strokes, but not until the other day at Ramson did he manage to coax another'tee shot into the hole. . This happened at the short second hole, only a mashle shot, says a New York dispatch to Indianapolis Star. Proal played Vile after hole with lit- • tie deliberation, but, oddly ei ough, he gathered in two twos during the course of the same round. Every time a one IS recorded the question of odds Is brought up. On one occasion the problem was put up ]tc Lloyds in London, the decision being that the chances were 20,000 to 1 against the feat being accomplished. Had Charles L. Fletcher, who keeps track of practically every rouhd he has ever played, made the sixteenth bole In one at Seabright, nearly a score of years ago and duplicated the performance at the second hole on the Rumson course the other day, it would only have required a question of minutes to glance back over the cards to tell how many chances at possible ones he had had. How many rounds of golf Proal has had during the last seventeen years is of course purely a matter of conjecture. The former Harvard man doesn’t know himself. However, he plays quite regularly and it is reasonable to assume he has averaged a couple of rhunds a week; a good deal more than that in the summer, less in the off season. So to carry the analysis further, 100 rounds a year for seventeen years would make 1,700 rounds. Granting that courses over wMch he played had three short or possible one-shot holes, which’ would be a' fair proposition, Proal would have had 6,100 chances, since he made his first one-spot when a “kid” at Seabright. All of which may not be a very cheerful outlook Jbr the thousands who have not been admitted to the army of “oners,” though it should not be f6rgotten that there Is no hard and fast rule, and that Mstory records an instance where a man made two ones in two successive rounds. j