Puzzle This Out. COST OF BAD PUTTING
Two plutocrats. Goldstein and Swagg. met in friendly rivalry over IS holes at golf. They agreed to play for stakes on the following curious basis: — Stake money to be payable after each hole on the position of the game then obtaining. A player one up at any nole to receive £1 from his opponent: a player two up to receive £3 (i.e.. £l. plus £2): a player three up to receive £G (i.e.. £l, plus £2. plus £3) : and so on. After five holes had been played. Goldstein owed Swagg £l7. After 13 holes neither player owed the other anything. Goldstein won the 14th and loth. The last three holes were ha:ved. but at each of these Swagg misled a short putt through nervousness. They should all have been his holes. What did these three missed putts cost him? Answer to Yesterday’s Puzzle The professor has six daughters.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 7
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155Puzzle This Out. COST OF BAD PUTTING Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 96, 17 January 1935, Page 7
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