Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-05

-HEY started in the rain, some
golfers at Beaver Dam Country
Club, and so hard did it rain
that for a time they thought
about giving it up and retiring
tn the locker room for dry change
of clothes. And when they reached the
fifth hole they were glad they didn't
quit. for the most peculiar hole-n-one
ever made at Beaver Dam came on the
spoon of DR.. Frank ]. Palcho on tnat
l60-vard hole, thereby bringing into
being several versions of the popular
song that has to do with harmony IN
the deluge.
There were DR.. Palcho. N. S. Thomp-
son II. Herman and S. j. BednarchaK
in the game which began in the ram
at Beaver Dam. And it came GOWN SO
hard that when they reached the green
at the fourth-the long hole-tney
Thought they we're through. 6ut
then" said they, I'VE may as well play
the short hole and call it day
Thompson and Herman teed up ana
drove toward the green, dlmly seen III
the mist. and neither of them got away
eycentional tee shots. Up came Palcho.
Sighting the distance care1ully' ne
whaled away at the ball.
It sailed straight as an arrow for the
creek Immediately in front OF the green
where many a we'll hit tee shot mas
found a resting place in foot-deep water.
And amid a chorus OF Sympatheltc;
calculations the rest Of the tour-oa
match watched that perverse pni 40
something no other ball ever mad zone
before.
In the soggy going, where normal
ball would have hit and stuck an S1
kicked back into the ditch. that Pun
hoped up on the green ana ran nCo
the cup. The ace was the flrst ever
made on the fifth hole at Beaver Dam
and the manner of its making Is the
WierdeSt ever.
OF course, after such stunt as that
they could not quit. They kept right on
PLAYING, and even though they scored
no more aces they had a happy time,
thoroushly drenched though they were.
And now Palcho thinks there may De
something to the game of golf after all,
II was the first one he ever had hao
or ever had seen.
Along about mid-November indian
Spring Golf Club is going TO TAXI on an
the appearance OF a narnyaro: Loroay
strlltting turkeys will vie with grunt1ng
pigs and cackling chickens for the at
tsntion of golfers who are used to dig
cling I'D the ground-but not in or near
barnyards. This unusual appearance
will be occaSioned by the Indian Spring
planning to stage barnyard tourna-
ment mot barnyard golf between No
vember Is and November "a, with tur-
keys, pigs and chickens as the prizes.
A qualifying round will be held on
November is, to be followed by nine
hole match-play rounds, with the final
round scheduled for November "a. ].
Monro Hunter, the club pro, claims
there is a chance the pigs might be
creased, and hints that if they were
considerable merriment might eventuate
If the winners were required TO eaten
the slippery animals.
Dorothy Hunter, the long-hitting
daughter of the Indian Spring profess
sional and a fine player herself. Is re-
covering at Sibley Hospital from an ap-
pendicitiS operation performed Satur-
day. Miss Hunter was suddenly at
tackled Saturday morning, and was
rushed to the hospital that night.
Fred D. Paxton. chairman of the golf
committee of Washington Golf and
Country Club, who is rapidly recovering
from an illness that incapacitated him
for nearly a year, is still talking about
a recent stunt pulled by little Dave
Thomson, the club professional.
Paxton, Ross Puett and Thomson
were playing in a match at Washington
and Dave was not going so well. In
fact, he was all over the lot, so the
story runs. and then, as happens so
often, he suddenly pulled himself to-
gether and began to shoot golf like