The Washington times., 1928-07-19
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Nv r. b. Thomas

BY II. ~. IuOmdS
An epidemic of wooden
headed, concave-backed put
tiers likely will break out fol
lowing the statementNof Tom
nv Armour that such stick
enabled him to set q record ia
the Metropolitan open with q
| 66 in the opening round. He
| had 10 one-putt green's.
/ ARut the inexperienced should not
he hasty in adding the new inn
/ Element to his collection. The pro-
i bahle fact is that Tommy had
nuttinp streak that would have
| come no matter what kind Of a
Eventually he'll go stale with It
i a,,a switch to another. According
81 Tonnnv himself it's inevitable
that 4 golfer be afflicted from time
Ia time with staleness on the green.
He simply cant see q true
line to the hole. ne cant luage
distance and he cant get the
i nr0Der feel Of the club. Every
II
footer scares him stiff.
Most mournful of all the tales
4 of the nineteenth hole is the one
/ with the motif: IT had everything
else but couldn't putt.
Tonnmy's own remedy Tor put
1 TING slump Is a switch Of sticks.
| There's nothing like It according
i to the former open champ, 70 re-
1 viva a jaded putting touch n
works out something like cnange
/ Of pen or pencil when one y on
the verge OF writer's cramp.
The comings and goings OF put
ting skill nnystify most golfers.
pros generally agree that the thing
Il mostly mental and that conf
| dence IL the fOunda ton Of a good
putting game. One missed putt
/ sometimes is enough to throw a.
i PLAYER off for an entire round ana
/ perhaps half season IL he doesnt
practice diligently and regain MS
confidence.
crack golfers take infinite pains
| with the first putt of round. e
i is often j the case that the Ilrst
putt determines the brand cI game
PLAYED on the greens for the re-
| rnainder of the holes. To make
bad putt at the outset leaves
/ PLAYER with the nasty feeling that.
! he's to he off his putting game for
1 the day The thought is likely to
i stand out when he reaches the
next green. Its q mental hang
nail.
II seems that all golfers have
DAYS when they sink 'en1 from
an over the green but it's only
i the master putter who main
tains a high average Of one
! putt greens.
This chronicler saw a raw dub
/ the other day finish nine holes
\ with only IL puts. A fellow player
| called attention to his marvellous
putting and this apparently so al
1 verted his mind that the magic
/ touch completely deserted him. Ills
| putting on the last was execrable.
So il goes with the most used
! stroke in golf, or should We say most
misused?
/ washington will have more interest
than ever in the Walker Cup battle
this year now that Maurice Nc
Carthy has been named an alter
| nate on the American team. With
| the Young New Yorker a student
1 at Georgetown and a member of the
i Washington Golf and Country Club
| the Capital feels that it owns a
| half interest in him. However,
Roland Mackenzie, a Walker Cup
first-stringer. is the pride of the
city.
The Kiwais Club of Washing
ton. beaten by the Baltimore
4 Xs.x,apVfnrao GnRwr0 TINA uDn mara
than got even I'm a return match
staged at Indian Spring. The
battle i'm Baltimore was close.
The second was decided by is
points to 5. 1t was played
under system in which both
match and medal counts figured.
| C. H. Pardoe, of Washington. led
| the field Of more than 80 with a
thoroughly creditable 70. Follow
! ing are the medal scores: w. p.
Hall, SO; D. S. Neill, 90: c. H. Par
doe, 79; Frank Howard, SO; C. c.
Secrist, SS; w. B. Fallon. "a; Bynum
Hinton, SO; Ed Wallace. SO; H. K.
Rosenberger, 81; E. F. Thomas. SO:
George Maxfield, 81; Risley Hunt.
80; C. j. Jerman. "a; Mark Lans.
burgh, SO; w. F. Kneip, 1903; w. F.
Kneip, jr., 1903; Gene Ruark. 100:
Dwight Burnham, 1903; George
Shuster, 122; H. G. Evitt. 116: Frank
Mitchell, SS; Jack Wineman, 93;
| G. M. Sears, 1872; John Wolfe. 80;
| O u. Singer, 81; u. d. Blackstone.
| 1903. Fred Shutz, 116; P. ]. Harmon,
98: C. Fl. Frame, 1853; Jack Boobar,
100 and Claude Owens, So.
TODAY'S GOLF RULE
General and Through the Green
! 12ule II, Section 1)--Any loose inn
nediment lying within a club length
of the ball and not being in or
touching a hazard may be removed
without penalty; If the ball move
after any such loose impeachment
has been touched by the player, his
mariner or either of their caddies,
the player shall be deemed to have
| caused the ball to move and the
/ nenalty shall be one stroke.
HE'S A BIG MAN
Umpire Bill Dineen has the largest
protector in either league. Bills
protector measures four feet across