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to the right of its intended course when Caddie Assumes it hit the boy who was just coming over a rise in the ground about 100 yards in Risk in Shagging front of the practice tee after picking a ball out of a brook. No warning was giv- en. Golf Balls The trial court ruled in favor of the defendant and the plaintiff appealed to By WILLIAM JABINE the supreme judicial court. The boy or man who undertakes tbe job Assumption of Risk of shagging golf balls driven from a prac- That court defined the word "shagging" tice tee voluntarily assumes the risk of as follows: "Shagging is the process of being hit so cannot successfully maintain picking up and returning golf balls which that possible negligence of the man who have been driven from a practice tee", hit the ball is the and upheld the ruling of the lower court cause of any re- in favor of the club member and against sulting injury. the caddie. That was the rul- The Court said in part: "We need not ing of the su- decide whether in the circumstances there preme judicial was negligence on the part of the defend- court of Massa- ant or a casual connection between his chusetts w h i c h failure to warn the plaintiff and the plain- was called upon tiff s injury. It is plain that there was an recently to deter- assumption by the plaintiff of the risk of mine the rights of being struck by balls driven from the prac- a 10-year-old boy tice tee. The voluntary conduct of the who was hit while plaintiff in exposing himself to a known shagging balls at and appreciated risk 'is the interposition a private club. of an act, which, as between the parties, makes the defendant's act, in its aspect The Ijoy who was hit bad caddicd six as negligent, no longer the proximate cause or eight times before and oil the day of of the injury; or, at least, in such partici- the accident had been sent to the practice pation in tlte defendant's conduct as to tee by tbe club's professional and instruct- preclude the plaintiff from recovering on ed to shag balls for the members using the ground of the defendant's negligence." the tee. He had been at this work for (Citations) about half and hour when he was struck by a ball which had been sliced by a club There was no evidence that the nluintiff member. was employed by the defendant out, in- The ball was traveling about 25 feet dependent of the 'relation of master and THE LOGICAL WAY TO SHIP GOLF CARS! fi/c/crset/I6//S • Eliminate Crating anil Uncrating t Finest Mo (fern Vans Carrv Up to 20 Car* • Fully I* ruler ted from Road Gravel and Wealhcr Damage | No Unloading Facilities Needed at Club

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servant there may be a voluntary assump- der the USGA handicap system, and wh tion of the risk of a known danger, which belong to regular USCA member clubs. will debar one from recovering compen- Entry applications must be received bv sation in case of injury to person or prop- the USQA, 40 E. 38th st.. New York lfi, erty therefrom." (Citations) not later than 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. "While the burden of proving assump- 15. Sectional qualifying rounds of 36 holes tion of risk was upon the defendant (Cita- will be played at 34 locations on Sept. 4. tion). the plaintiff's own evidence demon- and 5. The Championship rounds will, of strated that he knew the conditions under course, be played at match with 200 play- which he was 'shagging' the halls and the ers competing. danger of being bit by one of the balls. He testified that the balls 'were flying all Exempted from qualifying are the cur- around for half an hour' and 'that he heard rent and former USCA amateur winners, no one say "fore" to him while they were former USCA champions who arc ama- driving on the driving range'. teurs, current and former British Amateur His experience as a caddie necessarily champions and current amateur champions taught him that golf balls, particularly in five other categories. when driven in practice, may frequently travel in diverse and unintended direc- Three Northwest youths, two from Port- tions. There was no error in directing the land and one from Seattle, have been verdict for the defendant." (Fouliot v. granted scholarship assistance by the Pa- Black, 170 M.E.2d 709.) cific Northwest Golf Assn. fund of the Evans Scholar Foundation. They are Vic- tor C. Hoss. Jr., a caddie at Columbia- Amateur Championship Scheduled Edge water CC. and George T. Bryant, for Pinehurst, Sept. 17-22 Waverley CC, both of Portland;' and The 82nd Amateur Championship of the Charles A. Johnson of Seattle GC. A total lTSCA will be played Sept. 17-22 on the of 11 young men currently are enrolled No. 2 course of the Pinehurst (N.C.) CC. in the PNG A Scholarship program and 13 Entries are open to male amateur golfers have completed their schooling through with handicaps of four strokes or less un- its auspices.