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Smitty used to get the paper from his hometown where his folks lived at, somewheres near Lansing, Michigan. One day he seen in it where his kid brother was goin' to enter for the state golf championship.
"He'll just about cop it too," says Smitty. "And he ain't only seventeen years old. He's been playin' round that Wolverine Country Club, in Lansing, and makin' all them birds like it."
"The Wolverine Club, in Lansing? " says Hawley.
"That's the one," Smitty says.
"That's my old stampin' grounds," says Hawley. "That's where I learned the game at."
"The kid holds the record for the course," says Smitty.
"He don't no such a thing! " says Hawley.
"How do you know? " says Smitty.
"I guess I'd ought to know," Hawley says. "The guy that holds that record is talkin' to you."
"What's your record? " says Smitty.
"What'd your brother make? " says Hawley.
"Plain seventy-one," says Smitty; "and if you ever beat that you can have my share o' the serious money."
"You better make a check right now," says Hawley. "The last time I played at that club I rolled up seventy-three."
"That beats me," Smitty says.
"If you're that good," says Carey, "I'd like to take you on sometime. I can score as high as the next one."
"You might get as much as me now because I'm all out o' practice," says Hawley; "but you wouldn't of stood no show when I was right."
"What club was you best with? " ast Carey.
"A heavy one," says Hawley. "I used to play with a club that they couldn't hardly nobody else lift."
"An iron club? " says Smitty.
"Well," says Hawley, "it felt like they was iron in it."