Bear of a Course Requires Tiger's Touch --Cagle

Bits and Pieces

IT STARTED out pretty innocently for John Abel, a press operator from West Berlin, NJ. He entered a Buick contest last March in the unrealistic hope that he would win one of the top prizes, a new Buick automobile. He would give the car to his wife of 32 years, Roe.

Quite naturally, Abel didn’t win the shiny new wheels. He won one of the other prizes—nine caddied holes at a golf course in San Diego. At face value, half a round of golf and full caddy services doesn’t seem all that thrilling, and certainly doesn’t carry the punch of a new ride.