Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-20
\ BSERVING all the formality
4 and routine which surrounds
! the business of becoming a
caddie at the municipal course
IN Enrh nnAo..nno r..i. rns.,

tIle puSlIl6SS OF becoming
~ caddie at the municipal course
in East Potomac Park, Edward
Carroll, an employe of the General
Accounting Office. today is ready to
pay an election bet made last Fall. w.
v. Bennett Of 1941 First street is the
winner Of the bet, which provided that
the loser Should carry the heavy golf
bag OF the winner in a round of golf
at East Potomac Park this Spring.
Carroll wrote to Concessionaire Loeff-
Ter, asking that caddie's badge be as
signed him, and, observing all the for
mality that goes with the making of
q bag toter. Ed Burns, manager at
East Potomac Park, tried to obtain
badge No. 10 for him, but that badge
already was out, and as an alternative
he chose badge No. l. The bet will be
paid of within the next few days and
Carroll is praying that Bennett will not
have more than Il clubs in his bag.
An extensive public links tournament,
embracing players at both East Potomac
and Rock Creek Parks, Is planned by
Burns. who is certain he viii have the
cooperation of the Rock Greek man.
agement in obtaining sufficiently large
entry list to make the event thoroughly
representative of public links golf in
Washington. Burns plans to arrange
q match play tournament with five
flights each at East Potomac Park and
Rock Greek Park, with the winners in
each flight at each course to play the
victors Of the flights at the other
course.
Burns hopes that five flights may be
arranged at each course and planned
today to make arrangements with Al
Farr, presiding genius at Rock Greek,
to see that an. equal number of flights
~ 10
the number at East Potomac. The
tourney will not be handicap affair,
under present plans, and may take the
form of city municipal links cham
pionship. Suitable prizes are to be put
up by concessionnaire Loeff1er. Burns
plans to hold the event during April.
Some wit has placed on the locker Of
v. Calvert Dickey at Washington, an
article from golf magazine, entitled
THE Hole Can't Move" the inference
being. according to friends of Dickey
that he takes too long to putt. Dickey
has acquired quite a considerable rep
utation at Washington as the man who
never gives up. No matter how many
strokes he has played, he never stops
trying and sometimes gets away with
the most astounding shots simply be-
cause he tries hard with every shot
Dickey always slices his tee shots, hit
ting the ball with peculiar hip twist
and roll, falling back after hitting the
shot, and violating some of the cardinal
rules of golf Nevertheless he is one
of the most consistent players at Wash
ington and has turned in some sur
prisingly low rounds. He now is billed
at Washington as THE Rosslyn Flash
and THE Man Without Hook
On the wall of the Washington grill
room hangs picture of Jimmy Cor
coran, a member of the club who has
been wintering at Miami. sitting be-
side Jack Dempsey on the beach in
Florida. Jimmy wrote Max Beck, stew
ard Of the club, that Dempsey is a bet
ter fighter than golfer. but that he Is
an entertaining companion at all times
The Manor Club, popular golf or.
ganization of Norbeck, Nd, Is to stage
another stag night affair tonight a.
the clubhouse, arranged by Earl Car
bauh, who viii be assisted by his son
Bob Carbauh. A varied entertainment
program has been arranged to last unit
well along toward midnight.
Professional golfers of the Mid
AbIdIIb1S otIbOl Pldi1il1Ai5 a
golf tournament, probably at Columbia
early in April
Sandy Armour and Tony Penna Q
Congressional, are planning to leav
washington Sunday night for Pine
hurst, N. c., there to join Tomm
Armour, and a large group Of troupin
golf professionals on their way Mort
from a Winters Southern sojourn. Ere
Mcleod of Columbia, also plans to leav
Washington at the same time. tn
North and South open will be playe