Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-23

| " ONE people insist that golf is a
hard game, and make COMPARE
| sons with contract bridge, insist
~ ing that both are games OF
considerable dif1culty. But the
| game seems to be an easy matter for
| Fred A. Hitz of Chevy Chase, If his
doings on the lengthy and terrifying
| fifth hole at Columbia are the true
| criterion of the brand of golf be plays.
| This hole measures $50 yards In
| length from the back tee, and the
second shot must be played over a
Sahara Desert Of sand and grassy
mounds. 1t is anything but set-up
We recall that Bobby Jones took a 8
ON the self same hole during the ma
tional open of 1921, and that Joe Kirk
wood took a 10. Such things are not
rarities on the fifth at Columbia. But
Hitz makes the hole look easy. For linn
| it is nothing more than a drive, a
brassie shot and q putt, and par means
little in the life of youngster who can
knock the ball so far and so straight
and then putt 1t so accurately. He
poled out q lengthy tee shot on the
hole the other day, which wound up
| Just short Of the bunker at the right,
| hit q lusty braSSie shot that ended
/ feet from the pin and then canned the
| putt for an eagle 3.
Eagles have been made before on
the nth, but usually they have been
registered by holing a mashle stot or
short pitch. It is seldom indeed
that any man reaches the green in
| two shots and then knocks rhe pall in
| for the eagle. That eagle aided HitZ
to get out in SO blows, but he putted
poorly over the last nine and couldn't
do better than 43 for a 70.
NEVER before in the history Of
IN women's golf tournaments of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association have
such good matches been presented az
were being played in the second round
of the feminine championship ut the
Columbia Country Club today. The
numerical draw system used after the
qualifying round Monday worked out
perfectly in so far as bringing the best
players in the tournament together
after the opening round is concerned
Completely recovered from the drench-
ing and buffeting they received at the
hands of the wind, rain and hail
yesterday, when they courageously
played under the worst conditions ever
faced by woman golfers about Washing
ton, the survivors of the first round met
today in four matches That promised
some sizzling golf
Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes Of Columbia,
WHO Olu very well W get uIOuIlu .
beating at the hands Of Dorothy Hun
ter Of Indian Spring. met Effie Bowes
Of Baltimore In the first match in the
championship flight. Mrs E. Boyd Nor
row, twice winner Of the championship,
was opposed to Mrs. j. N. Hodges of
the Congressional Club; Miss Virginia
Holzderber of Baltimore, defending the
championship she won last year, met
Mrs. Dorothy White Nicholson, the Dis
trict champion, and Mrs. L. o. Cameron,
holder of the Chevy Chase course record,
met Mrs. Betty Parker Mackley, who
is star from upper New York State.
There wasn't a weak match in the
group, or a set-up anywhere along the
line, and the matches all were certain
to produce golf OF first-rate caliber.
Yesterdays matches were hardly to
be classed under the name of golf.
They went to the woman who proved
the better mud-horse, and conditions
were far more fit for duck hunting than
golf. Wind blew in squalls and rain
blew In sheets across the course, occa-
sionally interspersed with hail so blind
ing that it tore umbrellas to shreds and
made of good golf a farce. That the
tournament was continued with but
four defaults Is testimonial of courage
! to the golfers who braved the elements
and played through the weather.
Mrs Haynes was l down with one