Evening star., 1927-04-24

v YASH1NGTON'S 1927 COM
"A petitive golf season opens
wv this week, with the third
annual Spring affair of the
Town and Country Club.
Entries for the event, open to mem
hers of member clubs of the Middle.
Atlantic and District Golf Associa.
tions, and to specially invited guests,
close with the club golf committee at
the clubhouse tonight. A field OF up
ward of 125 of the leading players
about the Capital is expected.
Two days viii be given over TO the
oualifying round, starting Wednesday.
Match play rounds will start Friday
morning. with the semi-final and final
rounds carded for Saturday.
Town and Country Clubs golf
course, under the green committee,
headed by Dr. NJ. B. Fischer, has been
carefully groomed for the event and
is in apple pie condition. Everything
points to a most successful tourna-
ment, barring bad weather.
Golf Journeys which started yes
terday, continued at two local clubs
today. The first round of the father
and-son tourney was completed yes
terday at the Washington Golf and
Country Club and the victorious
ond round today. Semi-final and final
rounds viii be played next week end.
At Indian Spring members of the
Four Corners Club continued compeu-
ton in the sweepstakes event, While
others played in the two-man team
match, which has been in progress for
several weeks.
The golf committee OF the Manor
1. Ia 1r
will meet Tuesday to draw up a sched-
ule of events for the Summer season
at the club. subcommittee on handi-
cap, rules and regulations and other
matters have been appointed.
A change in the date for playing
of the interdepartmental team
matches and the individual team
championship is to be suggested at a
meeting of the executive committee
Of the Inter Departmental Golf League
af the Treasury tomorrow afternoon.
The tourney is to be played at the
Manor Club in June.
Secretary Work of the Interior De-
partment, although he never previ-
ously had swung a golf club, probably
is the only member Of the cabinet 10
obtain q hole in one. Standing on the
brink of the crater of kilauea IN
Hawaii yesterday. the Interior Secre-
tary drove a ball far down In the
seething depths Of the crater OF
Hawaii's sacred mountain, registering
what Gov. harrington called by radio
the worlds biggest hole in one.
Chairman MeClenahan Of the Wash.
ington greens committee is spending
the week end at Princess Anne, Nir-
ginia Beach, Va.
George I. Howard Of the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club Joined the
hole-in-one club yesterday, sinking an |
nee on the second hole at the Virginia |
course, a 150.yard mashie shot. X. j. |
Norman of the club holed an ace on |
the same hole month ago.
Howard. who was playing with a |
guest named Esuett from Richmond, |
Va, hit ball that stayed on the pin |
all the way and hung on the llp OF
the cup for fully a minute before II |
dropped. T. j. Rice, a member OF |
the foursome preceding Howard, sald
the ball hung by a few blades of |
grass before dropping in. On the |
same afternoon Dave Thomson, the |
club pro, came within half inch OF |
scoring an eagle 2 on the par tenth. |
his bali also hanging on the lip, but |
falling to drop.
That miracle nine made by Leo |
Diegel last Wednesday afternoon at |
Columbia probably is the finest con- |
secutively sustained par shattering |
effort ever uncovered on local golf /
course and possibly any other. Diegel |
himself says his 20 over the last nine |
at Columbia is the finest bit OF golf |
he has ever played. incidentally,
when he left town Thursday night |
he had in his pocket a check Tor |
$40. signed by the Columbia mem |
her who laid 100 to i against q % |
and so to 1 against a 80 for the par |
SIS nine.
DiegeI, who viii play this year from |
the Fenimore Country Club of West |
chester County, n. T., says he IS
playing better golf this year than |
ever before, and is almost entirely |
recovered from the spell OF illness
which kept him out Of the big money |
during the Winter.
81 am going to practice hard Tor |
the open and all the big tournaments
this year." he says. '1f l don't win
the open or some Of the other big
events, think I'll let the competi- |
tive game slide"
believing that only by the most pains |
taking practice and devotion to shot |
making can he become perfect me- |
chanicallys Just now he is working |
out new high iron shot TO add to |
his collection OF great strokes. lie |
probably is one of the best con- |
sistently long drivers in the world |
and is assuredIy the best driving IRON |
player from a close lie or a long iron |
shot that demands low ball.
Leo's brother Gorge, formerly pro- |
4essional at East Potomac Park, joined |
the hole in one club last THURSDAY, |
holing an ace on the fourteenth hole
of his home club on Long Island.
Tanned by a Winter in the South, |
with three major championships
added to his collection over a three |
month campaign, George ]. Voigt'
ace Of local golfers, arrived in the
Capital last Thursday TO prepare Tor
the local tournament season and prac-
tlce for the defense Of his Middle Al
lantic Golf Association title at Nor
folk in June. Voight plans to play
an several of the events which he won
last year, including the Chevy Chase
and Indian Spring tournaments, ana
may compete in the Washington COLI
and Country Club event May 4, 5, 6
end z.
Eddie Towns, Indian Springs dap
per pro, has been stepping around the
-Four Corners layout at fast pace
since his return from the South. just
the other day he negotiated the first
nine holes in 33 strokes, against a par
of 80, securing birdie 3s on the second
and third and q birdie 2 on the sixth,
one of the best short holes around
Washington.
SIkuII-duggery is suspected at Indian
Spring. No sooner had John Mac.
Corrnack. chairman OF the club greens