Sport: Unwiitting Lady

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At Hershey, Pa. three weeks ago, U. S. Open Golf Champion Byron Nelson shot a 287 in the Hershey Open, collected $450 fourth-place money. A $450 check for four days on the golf links is no cause for a sneeze—even by a national champion. But Golfer Nelson was not pleased. And with good reason: his caddy's failure to. find a tee shot that had plopped into the rough in the final round had cost him two strokes, thereby done him out of the second-place prize, $750.

Last week, when he had just about forgotten the galling incident, Golfer Nelson received an anonymous letter: "On September 3, during the golf tournament at Hershey . . . a lady in our party, one of my guests, unwittingly picked up your ball. She knows nothing about the game and did not realize what a lost ball means to a player. I did not learn about it until it-was too late. . . ." As he turned the page, three blue papers fluttered to the floor. They were three $100 money orders.

"You could have knocked me over with a wooden tee," chuckled Golfer Nelson.