"It's Just Luck"

In Glenview, Ill., last week a golf pro named Cyril Wagner, pooh-poohing the failure of a Michigan City colleague to make a hole-in-one after 17 hours of trying the week before, made a locker-room bet ($325 against a brand new automobile) that he could not only make one hole-in-one but two of them within 24 hours. Accompanied by three suitcases of balls, six caddies and two scorekeepers, he took his stance on the 17th tee of the Elmgate Country Club at 8:15 in the evening, began to wham away -- at the rate of three drives a minute. At 12:20, on his 805th wham, a ball trickled into the cup.

Smiling wanly, Marathoner Wagner took time out to bow to the handful of onlookers gathered on the fringe of the floodlighted tee, then continued to wham--all through the night and all through the day. Though six out of ten balls landed on the green (131 yards away), he failed to get another ace in 2,289 more attempts. After he had lifted his leaden arms for the 3,094th time, Scoffer Wagner admitted defeat. "After you hit the green, I guess it's just luck," he sighed--discovering by painful experience what most golfers have long known.

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