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Beaver going to be caddying today at the country club. Not his first attempt, so he knows the drill. The caddy master assigns Beaver to Ken Langley and Gilbert to Arthur Howard. Beaver has caddied for Mr. Langley before so he has Beaver keep score. Problem Beaver's count and Mr. Lanley's don't align.

Beaver got a good tip, he is just bothered by the score. Gilbert doesn't see the problem, Beaver got five dollars and wrote down what he was told. Later Beaver discovers that Langley won a $500 bet, but he cheated. Beaver really has a problem. Now would be the time to talk with Ward.

Wally senses something is wrong, so Beaver explains the story. Beaver could talk to the club pro, but according to Wally that could have series repercussions. So, Beaver goes to see Mr. Langley at work. Beaver returns the money and says he's bothered by the cheating. Mr. Langley explains the situation. He had been at the club and had a few and one thing lead to another. Sensing that Beaver really doesn't follow, he says he has a solution, but he needs Beaver's help.

Beaver comes home late and is somewhat mysterious about where he was and what he was doing. Ward decides not to pursue the matter this time. Langley and Howard are playing again, and Beaver's caddying again, but this time Langley inflates his score. The result is Howard wins and gets his money back. Gilbert figures out what went on and decides he's not going to caddy anymore, the less he has to do with adults, the better.

Wally can't believe what Beaver did. Didn't he know a whole lot of things could have happened. Beaver decides perhaps he's better off not knowing as much as Wally or he'd be too afraid to do anything.

I don't know the writers had Beaver caddy, but if a dollar was the expected tip, these guys were cheap. I usually got $7 for eighteen and mostly that went up to $10 or on occasion $15 if you got a good tipper. Today the caddy seems to exist only on TV during a pro tour. All the courses I know require golfers to take a cart. And as in the episode, caddies frequently kept score. Some golfers expected you to keep count, others told you the count. I can understand Beaver's dilemma here, but most of us put golfers in the same category we did fishermen, all liars and exaggerators.

Beaver gets pretty melodramatic over the cheating that has nothing to do with him. If a golfer cheats he'd do it moving the ball when no one is watching. Howard certainly would count Langley's strokes himself in a big bet match. Not a lot of laughs. But, a good story.

Not so much a review as a comment. If Mr Langley hadn't cheated, he would have lost the bet and would be out $500.

In trying to fix his cheating, he purposely lost only $500, so he's just back to even. To be fair, he should have bet and lost $1000.

So Langley uses a kid two times to first get himself $500 in a bet then tricks Beaver into thinking he's doing the right thing by losing the second game.

Langley first schmoozes Beaver by complimenting him as a bright guy. (He isn't) He even thinks Beaver could be a space engineer. Anyway it's all to win the bet with that old goat, Howard. He cheats and then blackmails Beaver by giving him a bribe. The guy is a rogue.

After Beaver confronts him about cheating, Langley decides he has to shut this kid up so he wants Beaver to help him make things right. Really? Langley and Howard will play another game for another $500 bet. Why would Howard agree to play another game after he lost $500? Also why didn't Howard keep track of the scores?

This time Langley, using Beaver, makes sure he loses without really trying and now Howard gets his own money back.

Trouble here is that Langley really didn't lose anything but made sure he keeps his standing at the club. Langley really owes Howard $1000 but Beaver thinks all is well. Beaver really wasn't very bright and could never play for the LA Lakers as he was bounced out of tryouts after a few hours.