Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-25

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team Of the Indian Spring Golf Club,
which eked out a tie with Hagerstown
two weeks ago, today will engage the
golfers of the Rolling Road Club OF
Catonsville. Md. In a resumption Of the
links warfare which was started last
year at Rolling Road and finished for
the year at Indian Spring.
Beaver Dam golfers, smarting over
a 13-to.12 defeat administered to them
two months ago by the Argyle Country
Club players over the latter's purse
victorious opponents today at Beaver
Dam. A feature of the match at Roll
ing Road will be a four-ball match, In
which ]. Monro Hunter and George
Diffenbaugh, indicated Indian Spring
professional golfers, will match their
shots against the best that Carroll T.
McMaster and Jimmie Roche can pro-
duce. McMaster is the pro at Rolling
Road and Roche halls from the Elkridge
Hunt Club of Baltimore. Felix e. Early
will lead h Indian Spring team into
action against the Rolling Road ag-
gregation, while M. A. Shipley, Argyle's
ace, will head the team from the Four
Corners Club against Bill Whites
Beaver Dam Club ~swingers.
Did you notice Horton Smiths iron
clubs when he was in Washington re-
Gently? And then notice the tremendous
cut which the Missouri wonder was able
to put on his shots to the green? If
you did. you noticed that the faces of
all his irons, particularly the oneS used
for shots from 100 yards down, were
deeply punched In order that the man.
imum cut might be impaired to the
ball.
Whether Smiths irons are illegal or
not would have to rest with an ex-
pert who put a micrometer on the
punch marks 10 determine their depth,
but certainly the faces Of his iron clubs
are punched to a depth that no stock
club would have.
Back in 1921 Jock Hutchinson won
the British open championship, with
the slotted mashie contributing largely
to his control of the ball on the keen
st. Andrews green's. A short time
thereafter the royal and ancient ruled
that slotted clubs could not thereafter
be used in Britain. The United States
Golf Association followed suit with a
ruling that slots OF punch marks on
the faces Of iron clubs should not be
more than n thirty-second Of an inch
in depth.
That ruling wal later amended. and
today it reads a. follows: Club faces
shall not bear any lines. dots or other
markings. made for the obvious pur-
pose OF putting a cut on the ball. Both
shallow line and dot markings may be
used. either alone or in combination.
provided all rough or raised edges are
removed
Smiths irons had been punched
deeply, but so far as we could see the
raised or rough edges had been re-
moyed. But tnaSmuch as the ball fiat
tens cut when struck a moderately hard
blow, 1t would appear to be obvious that
indentations on the face of a golf club
would have the effect of gripping the
ball better than a smooth face. I'm
doubleday Smith mas no intention to
violate or get around the rule, and
In punching the faces of his irons he
Is entirely within the limits of the
present rule. We wonder. however. If
some golfers who complain that they
are unable to get cut on the BAH would
no do better II they had the faces of
their iron clubs punched to a depth
greater than that done by the manu-
facturers.
The Indian Spring Golf Club has
announced the forthcoming "Namadji
Nindj" tournament. to be held Sep
TENDER 6, for southpaw golfers of the
District Of Columbia, the Midatlantic
territory and United States Golf Asso-
citation Clubs. The tourney is to be
played for a cup presented two years
ago by DR.. Lester A. Reeves, and entries
will close at 6 pm, September 8.
In a postscript to the invitation, DR..
Reeves adds: 1.-The experiences and
otherwise less spectacular performance
Of righthanded golfers is always inter-
esting. With the exception Of a select
few, even the Highlander is handi-
capped because the ball just won't 60
where the course architect says it
should.
But a lefthanded golfer, and par
~ticularly a group of lefthanded golfers
who would have the nerve to 90 out
and play a tournament with the added
handicap of being forced to play the
game from the right side of the BALI
well, this should be news"
Sam Rice. outfielder of the Wash
ington Ball Club, won the tournament
last year. and DR.. Reeves hopes Rice
VIII De able to play In the event again
this year. Undoubtedly he will have
stiff competition-if he plays-from
Tommy Bones of Columbia and Byrn
Curt1ss OF Indian Spring. for both these
youngsters are capable Of shooting
around par If they are right. DR..
Reeves himself Is a good golfer, but has
Deen III Tor several weeks and has not
been able to practice. The words
"Namadji Nindj." which are used to
designate the name of the tournament.
are taken from the Chippewa Indian
Town and Country Club golfers are To
start next Saturday in the competition
for the annual handicap championship
OF n club. A qualification round
will be played at 10 holes on September
l, with the two match play rounds to
follow on September 2. The semi
finals and finals will be played on Sep
TENDER g.. A handicap of 80 strokes
Will be h maximum allowed In the
tourney.
Arthur B. Thorn, the Town and
Country Club professional, thought he
had q new record in the making for
the club course the other day when he
started with an eagle 2 and a birdie 3
and finished the first nine holes in 80.
He nearly drove the first green-293
yards away-and Clipped the ball in
second hole by two perfect shots and a
putt.
He started the second nine by taking
three puts on the tenth for a buzzard
S (Which any man might do) and didn't
feel badly about that. But at the thir-
tenth he tried the long carry across
the angle of the ditch and his ball
ended In the water hazard. His third
shot was neatly pitched into the faz-
ard and Thorn took a z on'the hole. He
drove into the bunker at the four
tenth and. hoping to get a par }.
played his pitch from the sand a little
fine. The result was a S. and mis-
chance for a record had gone glimmer-
ing. He finished the last nine with a
al and a total for the round of "a