One of the great CBM stories passed down at The National involves a time in the mid 1930's when Macdonald's son-in-law, one of the Grace family and a strapping fellow, declared to CBM one afternoon with the trade wind up that he was going to drive the first green. Apparently it hadn't been done to that point, at least in CBM's presence, and CBM was indignant, stating categorically that it couldn't be done. Grace then did drive the green, and CBM walked off furious and wrote Grace out off his will.