The Washington herald., 1922-02-26
Columbia Professionals Ven-
ture Proved Huge
Success.
By GORDON SHAND.

with warm weather not far In
the offing, Freddy Mcleod closed
up his golf school at Woodward
and Lothrop's yesterday and will
shove off tomorrow for the balmy
Southland. Freddy's school proved
to be a huge success, and there
is every Indication that 1t will be-
cCme a permanent institution dur
ing the winter.
Tomorrow Freddy will be headed
for Florida and will endeavor to
collect few trophies and inciden-
tally some little coin of the realm
in tournaments there and around
New Orleans way.
Freddy will make determined
bid this year to regain his hold on
the North and South open cham
pionship at Pinehurst. which gets
under way on March 81 The
midget Columbian held the title
year before last. but fell before the
redoutable Jock Hutchison in tho
1921 event.
The warm weather of the past
few days has put many OF the local
courses in fair shape. and some of
them are now in use. Fully seven
ty-five were out on the Columbia
course yesterday.
Golfers in the South are all het
up over the forthcoming match be-
tween teams representing Pine
hurst and Florida. which will be
scheduled as sort of curtain
raiser to the North and South
championship. Golfers from the
North Carolina resort recently
sent def to Florida for a team
match. with an indefinite number
on side.
Sandy Herd and J., II. Taylor
British professionals. dxpect to ar
giving them ten days to become ac-
climated before the National open
starts at Chicago. July II.
1t has been figured that Herd,
whose home club is Coombe Hill.
England. has made an ace" for
every 10000 holes he has played
during his life. He has fifteen Is
to his credit and estimates that he
has played 200 times over the
course. with at least 100000 holes.
OF this total. probably 10000 holes
were possible Is. so that he has
averaged a hole in one out of every
1000 chances
Incidentally, there are four holes
that might be made in l at
Skokie. where the National open
will be~held this year. and as these
will be played four times each,
Herd will have a chance of 8 to
1000 to score his sixteenth ace.
the dates selected for the Western
open championship at Oakland
Hills. Detroit. will leave an interval
of nearly six weeks between the
finish of the National open at
ern event at Detroit. The time
chosen for the latter is August :3,
"a and 25.
This completes the dates for the
Western championships. the anna
teur being scheduled for June &c.
and the junior for August and 4.
Golf enthusiasts in Philadelphia
the trying 10 INDUCE Tic CltS COuh-
Gil to provide additional public
links to prevent congestion on the
present course. Statistics show
that 2SO,722 players have welded
their nashies on the municipal
course there since it was thrown
open to the public early in 1915.
Last year S0.045 rounds were
played. in comparison with 55.567
terl, mt h
from April to October last year. an
average of 200 people used the
course each day, while on Satur-
days, Sundays and holidays the
total went above the 500 mark.
Boston's municipal golfers are
are also up in arms with the de-
mand for a mans size golf pas
ture. Beantown exponents of the
links pastime can only boast of a
single 9-hole affair. which has long
been inadequate to cope with the
remarkable growth of the game.
Probably no feature ever naug-
urated by the United States Golf
Association has been so thoroughly
appreciated as the green section.
Although enjoying a steady growth
from the start, the real impetus
was gained at the time of the last
annual meeting, when delegates