 | 1928 - 918 pages
...one shot. That is to say, after I had hit, a ball was found in the can, and my ball was not found. It is what we call circumstantial evidence — the same thing that people are hanged for. Yet I may be able to help the ordinary golfer, or "goofer" — others prefer "gopher" — by showing... | |
 | Stephen Leacock - Canadian wit and humor - 1928 - 398 pages
...one shot. That is to say, after I had hit, a ball was found in the can and my ball was not found. It is what we call circumstantial evidence — the same thing that people are hanged for. Under such circumstances I should have little to teach to anybody about golf. But it has occurred to... | |
 | American literature - 1928 - 818 pages
...one shot. That is to say, after I had hit, a ball was found in the can, and my ball was not found. It is what we call circumstantial evidence — the same thing that people are hanged for. Under such circumstances I should have little to teach to anybody about golf. But it has occurred to... | |
 | Bruce C. Berndt - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 388 pages
...evidence (given in Section 3) for this assertion is all indirect; in the words of Stephen Leacock, "It is what we call circumstantial evidence — the same thing that people are hanged for." The fascinating story of Ramanujan's short life and brilliant career has been told several times, and... | |
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I have once, it is true, had the distinction of "making a hole in one," in other words of hitting the ball into the pot, or can, or receptacle, in one shot. That is to say, after I had hit, a ball was found in the can and my ball was not found. It is... 