4/44 When he said that he made a hole in nine, he meant nine or thereabouts--approximately nine; nice people, he thought, should let it go at that. So he became feared on the course, not only for his actual prowess but for his matchless optimism in casting up his score. He was a pleased man, and considered golf a good game; and he never forgot that Wilbur Cowan had made him the golfer he was. More than ever was he believing that Harvey D.Whipple had chosen wrongly from available Cowans. On the day when he first made the Newbern course in, approximately, one hundred and twenty--those short-arm iron shots were beginning to lengthen down the centre of the fairway--he was sure of it. |