Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1902 — PUT HIS EYE ON IT. [ARTICLE]

PUT HIS EYE ON IT.

There is a story about Walker Breese Smith at Tuxedo which is rather amusing. Mr. Smith is one of the few New York men who wear a monocle. In his case—and he is always ready to admit it—it is arranged to cleverly conceal a glass eye, Mr. Smith having had the misfortune to lose one of his eyes years* ago. When golf was in the height of its popularity, Mr. Smith went in for all the rigors of the game. He played under an instructor. This man was rather insistent upon his pupil following every rule of the game. He was constant in his instruction, “Put your eye on the ball.” At last Mr. Smith, after making several flukes in his strokes, was reminded again, “Put your eye on the ball.” Suiting the action to the word and taking the literally, Smith, to the astonishment of the instructor and the horror of the caddie, removed his monocle, and then, taking out his glass eye, deliberately stuck it on the ball and, turning around exclaimed: “Now, there! Is that all right ?* —New York Times.