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166 IT TOOK NINE TAILORS
formed that Howard thought I was a pigeon and that he would like to get me into a golf game and take my shirt. Somebody else worked on Howard and convinced him that I was sharpening up my game for the express purpose of trimming him in a match. Finally one of us went for the bait and challenged the other to a game.
During the following week I spent every afternoon at Lakeside practicing, and at night I would go to the golf range and take lessons. I discovered that Howard was doing the same thing at Brentwood Country Club.
The match was played at a regular meeting of the Divot Diggers at Riviera Country Club, which is a difficult course for dubs because it is very long. We were so serious about the game that we would not play as part of a foursome; we went out as a twosome. By the time we started off on the first tee there must have been more money bet on that match than on the Los Angeles Open. I had a big bet with Bill and had made bets on myself with a dozen others in the club. Eddie Mannix of Metro could not get there that day, but he is supposed to have rushed $500 by motorcycle messenger out to Riviera to bet on me. I had about $1,500 bet on myself and I was so nervous that I could hardly tee up the ball for my first drive.
It was a dingdong match all the way but strictly a battle of mediocrity. If one of us got a bogey on a hole, he was a sure winner. We had both studied up on the rules and we watched each other like a couple of strange dogs; we made sure that every shot was played according to the book.
When we finally reached the eighteenth tee, we were all even. Word had preceded us that the match was close, so we had a very sizable gallery for that last hole.
The eighteenth at Riviera can try the soul of even the best golfer. The ball has to be driven over a steep hill about 90 feet high. If it does not clear this hill, it winds up in the rough with a grove of trees between it and the green. I managed to hit my ball just barely to the top of the hill, but Bill sliced his drive into the