Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-12

be made to order for Clyde B.
i Asher of the Columbia Country
Club. Asher won the tourney
held last Wednesday at Columbia with
a score of "a, two strokes in front of
Robert v. Fleming, president of the
Riggs National Bank, and James j.
Johnston. Fleming won the low net
prize with 86-14-72, while Johnston
was next with 86-13-73. Thirty-nine
golfers played in the event.
Arrangements are going forward by
the special building committee of the
Indian Spring Golf Club for the COM
pletion of the clubhouse construction
program authorized by the club a few
days ago. Plans for the enlarged club
house will be ready in a few weeks.
Much of the sum necessary to make a
start on the construction work already
has been subscribed.
From Gen. j. j. Morrow. U. s. A.,
retired, a former member of the Column
bia Country Club, now living in Engle-
wood, N. j., comes tribute to the
memory of Pop" Hough, beloved vet
Gran of Columbia, who died recently.
Gen. Morrow and Hough were insep-
arabic comrades on the old course of
the club out on Georgia avenue and
claimed marathon golf record. Mai.
Gen. Rhodes, U. S. A., retired, sent
Gen. Morrow a notification of Hough'S
death and had the following letter in
reply:
THANK you very much for the clip
ping. 1t was my first news of the
going west of old Pop. He was fine
old sport. a. Treasury employe at the
time of the marathon, but out on the
old Columbia course as often as he
could make it, and plugging around
with dog-gone good game for as old a
man as he was. Older than am now
by 10 years and playing a half stroke a
hole better than 1 can do now. 1 shall
never forget our playing of the old
twelfth In our last round of that day
This would make it our sixty-sixth
hole) 1t was a tough hole. The drive
was as far as you could get up steep
hill, but you had to get over a graded
road fill that meant climbing 80 or 40
steps and down on the other side. This
came only 40 or so yards from the
front of the tee. Old Pop was pretty
tired by this time and his second lay
not quite up to the hilltop (nearly dark
in the evening". He said Maize, have
you PLAYED your second Shot?'
No.. says /. It's still up ahead
when we came to it, with his ball
lying just ahead, he stood over it look
ing back at the tee, and said, Great
guns, MAZE; how far would that ball
have gone if you hadn't been tired
out?
"A year later, out in Portland. Ore
gon, the old man sent me a clipping
showing that three members had done
101 holes in one day over the same
course putting on 70 holes in the shade.
I drumned up a partner in Portland,
and on the following Sunday June,
1900 went 119 in one day and wired
the birds that if they would go 100
We would come back with IA. We
could do that in Portland in June,
although it would be impossible in
Washington. They wired back to us
say, we found out later that on the
same day we plugged 119 holes Scot
up in Aberdeen playing with three
different partners in turn, started in
at l am, and finished at 1920 pm,
with 216 holes behind him az with
each of the three partners) and aver
aged in the low 80's on the II rounds.
Good old Pop was fine old scout.
shall miss the pleasure of playing
with him on my future visits to Co
lpmbia."
Sidney H. Buttz, golf champion of
the Indian Spring Club, has notified
the club authorities that he is plan
ming to leave Washington in June, and
cannot serve as captain of the team
throughout the Summer. A successor
to serve while ButtZ is away, will be
named Indian Spring is planning a
, series of matches with Beaver Dam and
Argyle.
Meanwhile j. Fred Byrne, chairman
of the Bannockburn golf committee
I no oGa RI
Golf and Country Club for home and
home match with the players of the
( Virginia organization. This match is
expected to be arranged within a few
weeks.
| Ample evidence of the viciousness OF
/ the traps and the new white sand that
/ fills the hazards at the Town and
/ Country Club came to the competitors
! in the tourney at the fine Bethesda
, course last week, Fred w. Rade oil
! Manor said he was in three traps dur
ing the qualifying round of the tour
ney. and that he used total of II
strokes in the three traps, an average
of three and third strokes to the
trap. The other competitors founC
them almost equally discouraging scor'
/ ing propositions.
We saw Tommy Bones, one of Co
lumbia's fine young players, use thre
shots to get out of a trap at the frs
hole, and just little later saw Ra.
Chaplin get tangled up with the tire
roots at the left of the fairway. ant
6n9lly hole a 25-foot putt for oil
the hole.
/ Maurice ]. Mccarthy. iutercolli giat
golf champion, will not be able TO pla.