GOLFER COMPENSATED
SPECTATOR LIFTED BALL INCIDENT IN AMERICAN TOURNEY (Independent Cable Service.) Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, September 19. Byron Nelson, the national open golf champion, received 300 dollars in an anonymous letter explaining that a “ lady in our party unwittingly picked up your ball during the Hershey open tournament a fortnight ago. She was unfamiliar with the game. As tho lady is my guest I feel responsible.” If Nelson hadn’t lost the ball ho would have won 750 dollars as second money, instead of 450 dollars for fourth place.
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Evening Star, Issue 23376, 20 September 1939, Page 8
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90GOLFER COMPENSATED Evening Star, Issue 23376, 20 September 1939, Page 8
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