Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-08-09
BY WALTER R. McCALLuM.

~ OFF has bred an old saying
that only champions finish as
r champions should. The others,
~ so the saying goes, falter ana
slip over the last few holes,
AdageS in this game OF golf are gem
orally trtisms. in every sense OF inc
word, and IL that is the case We should
like to nominate for the championship
class two golfers about the Capital VINO
have never had championship aspira-
tions and probably never will. Roland
Hancock had his great chance at chi
caCo and failed diSinally. Had he been
able to finish round of golf as the
tall sycamore of Montgomery County
Andrew j. (Cy) Cunmings-did yester-
dav at Columbia, and as T. P. Noyes
| of Chevy Chase did the previous day
at the Baltimore Country Club Five
Farms course, he would be sporting
| the national open championship and
romping around the country in high
powered car picking up jack merely Tor
playing golf.
Convinces Skeptics.
Two friends of Cummings who were
| skeuticai that Cy had not come back
| on his formidable game of last season,
| even when he shot an 81 at Columbia
| few weeks ago. got rude awaken
| ing yesterday when the big man from
| Columbia finished the last three holes,
3, 3, g. Yep. Cy got two brides and
par. and 1t was right expensive flnish
for r. B. Cummings and Arthur S. Mat
| tingly. with whom the ex-Georgetown
| foot ball star was playing.
| Indeed, Cy came very close to secur-
| ing an eagle 2 on the eighteenth hole,
| for his iron second shot left him
| putt of only few inches. And he
nonchalantly knocked it In with some
| such remark as this How long has
this been going on? Who said this
game was hard?"
or course Cy's at the short six
tenth was expected. He seldom takes
more than 3 at this hole. But when
he rang the bell for birdie at the
seventeenth, and then nearly sank an
iron shot for an eagle at the eighteenth
his opponents were convinced that there
was kick left In the Cummings game
after all,
Privately. of course, Cy didn't want
to let "SkeetS" Watson in on the secret
for he and Watson have game framed
for next week and word about brides
not to mention two consecutive holes
under par--and Watson may pun IN
his horns. But then Watson has al
ways claimed ne could outtalk the tall
oak from out Montgomery way.
Noyes Makes Noise.
Moves was a partner to Tommy
Armour In O match at Baltimore the
other day against B. Warren Corkraf1,
and another washington player. Moves
hadn't figured very extensively in the
game up to the sixteenth, but then who
could expect any local amateur to figure
with such partner as last years open
champion. And particularly the way
Tommy was putting over the first nine
holes Armour and Moves we're | up
with 3 TO go. and they came to the
difficult sixteenth Now Noyes hardly
entered seriously into the calculations
of the opposing pair. They we're watch
ing Tommy. But In came Noyes, shoot"
ing a ball from terrible lie In the
woods to within 3 feet of the hole to
sink the putt and win the hole. AND
then, lust to show that 1t wasn't an
accident he took a No. 3 iron from his
bag at the 175-yard seventeenth and
nearly holed the doggone thing for an
ace His two was cinch, and that
match was over. But that wasn't all
Tommy took three puts on the eight
zenith green and Moves. who had half
topped his tee shot, nonchalantly
rolled In an s-footer for only ! on
home hole. s
And now we're Convinced more than
ever that golf adages. like rules that
have exceptions, are made only TO be
broken. and that champions are not
the only fellows who hnish like the
wearers of the purple toga.
Preparing for the coming exhibition
match In which he and Diffenbaugh Will
oppose the two Armours from Congress
| sional, j. Monro Hunter the Indian
| Spring siege gun, has had made up for
| him a big niblick with blade like a
| steam shovel and shaft like the trunk
OF a young oak tree. The ball cannot
go in place from which that mighty
weapon can't dig 1t out. and as for put
ting cut on the ball-that club does
nothing else but The dates for the
| match haven't finally been settled yet,
| but 1t is certainty that 1t will be held
| the latter part of the week of August
10, with the final SO holes to be staged
at Indian Spring on August 26.
To say that Congressional and In
| dian Spring are all steamed up over
the affair Is putting 1t mildly. and 1t Is
| certainty that considerably more than
| golfing honor will be riding on the