Evening star., 1928-04-18

| one hole over par. Brides count as
! two pars, so for the purposes oil the
wager he had played the first five holes
| in par. something he admitted ne had
never done before.
Then he came TO the sixth hole. into
the wind, and pulled his tee shot Dehlnd
a clump of pine trees. Attempting To
play a slice around the clump. he hit
another tree. and then he started a
tattoo against the trees that sounded
like a machine gun company going into
action. He finally holed out III 10
shots. But the fellow who never gives
up came back with another par and
still another. Dickey firmly believes ne
can hole any putt of any length. Dur
ing the round he holed chip shot from
off the fourth green for and he
sank 30-footer for a 4 across the
eighteenth green.
John 2. Gilmore of Congressional is
recovering from slight injuries sus-
tanned in an automobile accident 10
DAYS ago when his car was struck by a
speeding automobile and he was thrown
upon the pavement.
Florida Is TO go several steps further
along the professional trail for glory
and money--and will put up purses for
single tournaments eclipsing by several
thousand dollars the $4,000 purse put
up for the La Gorce open. according to
word brought to Washington by Jimmy
Cochran. a member OF the Washington
club who spent two months in Miami
The professionals were told at a dim
ner at the La Corce Club that the
purse for one tournament next Winter
might run as high as $4,000. with
something like $4,000 to go to the win
ner. Surely golf is getting to be quite
an extravaganza II this Is true and eX-
caddies may graduate into rich men
within few years By the simple method
OF playing good golf III the tourna-
mentS.
Dave Thomson. professional at the
Washington Golf and Country Club
was just recovering today from an at
tack Of mathematical 'heebie jeebies'
brought on by his task Of figuring out
the winners In the woman's tourney al
the Washington Golf and Country
| Club yesterday After Dave had wreS'
tied with the Job for upward OF two
hours he finally got IL down 70 the
point where the semi-final had beer
reached in one bracket. while prog
TGSN III the pksitI DIAEhEA WAS AlElh w
by the fact that two of the contestants
had tied in the second round.
This was decided by draw. and al
the conclusion of his task Dave an
nounced that Mrs. Yelverton E. Booker
Of Washington had won the surprise
tourney, first OF the year staged by tht
Womens District Golf Association,
II worked out something like this
Each competitor was given a handicap
and turned in an i8-hole medal PLAY
card. The cards were then drawn from
a hat and paired together. with handi.
caps applying. at match play. In some
cases the leading players had to con-
cede more than stroke folea Any
way. Mrs Booker won. and the women
/ had an enjoyable luncheon and the5
gave Mrs. H. A. Knox a silver toile
set In appreciation Of her three-yeaI
service as president OF the association
and they congratulated Dorothy white
on having such a successful tourna-
ment
Mrs Alma Won STEINER won the low
gross prize with a card Of %. two shots
/ in front of the i0I registered by Mrs
j. NJ Haynes. Mrs Yon Steinner. al
ready having won one prize, was forced
10 drop out Of the match play. Mrs
Booker the winner OF the tourney. also
had low net, but could not take twc
prizes so the low net prize reverted Il