On Public Links

Public golf courses are dangerous places. Etiquet is not observed as closely as at private clubs. There is a good deal of driving into the players ahead, club-throwing after bad shots, teeing-up-on-the-fairway, kicking the ball in the rough, cursing, gouging of divots. But even public links golfers know that automobiles should not drive across golf courses. One afternoon last week, when a car suddenly burst through some shrubbery and went careening across the Cherry Ridge links in Elyria, Ohio, scores of public linksmen, hurrying around to get through before dinner, grew righteously, furiously indignant.

"Hey!" they shouted. "Whaddya thinkya doin'?" The car was circling madly, looking for an exit. As it jounced across fairways and putting greens, the golfers of Elyria swarmed toward it, yelling imprecations, picking up things to throw. Some threw rocks, some threw golf balls. Then they began throwing putters, irons, wooden clubs. The car's windshield was smashed. Its body clattered under the fire. Suddenly one of its occupants was pitched out and the automobile made back for the shrubbery, vanished up a lane while a desperate defender in the rear seat fired away with a revolver.

The man who was pitched out rubbed his lacerated head and began mumbling words of gratitude to the angry throng of golfers that surrounded him. He said he was one Joseph Myda, 45. The automobile's other passengers, he said, were Cleveland gunmen who had been taking him for a "ride." They had got into the wrong lane, made a sudden turn and debouched upon the teeming, angry. Cherry Ridge fairways. Grateful Mr. Myda was sent away to a hospital. Elyria's growling linksmen returned to their games.

On a public golf course at Kansas City, Mo., last week, Federal detectives picked up three players, identified two of them, Thomas Holden and Francis L. Keating, as mail-train robbers who escaped from Leavenworth two years ago; a third, John Brown, as one of the men who held up the Citizens' National Bank at Fort Scott, Kan. last month. Their wives, idly watching the game from a parked car, had guns in their handbags.

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