Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-10-31
NEW CARPET ADDS
TO SECOND STROKE
Rule Experts Puzzled When
Ball Comes to Rest in
Players Pocket.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

~ HEVY CHASE has put the new
twelfth green of the course il
play. The new green, 20 yard;
behind the old green and
much better trapped affair
than the green that has been used for
two decades, makes the second shot a
longer shot and also enables the player
to see where the pin enters the hole,
thus making possible a more accurate
pitch shot.
Only two months ago the Chevy
Chase golf and grounds committee,
hsaded by Robert Stead. jr., decided
that a change in the twelfth hole would
be desirable. Working from plans de-
vised by Greenkeeper Watson, green
was constructed about 20 yards behind
the old green whose purpose was to
make the second shot a more difficult
pitch shot and at the same time to
overcome the handicap OF not being
the tee shot stops. Because OF the hill
which rises in front of the bunkers
near the green on the twelfth hole,
unless the player got a very long tee
shot to the right, it was not possible to
have an accurate idea as TO just where
the pin was located. The same Situa-
ton does not hold true as strictly now,
with the new green in use. for the loca-
ton of the pin on the new green can
be plainly seen if the tee shot is fairly
long.
Some of the men who have played the
new hole believe it plays better from
the practice fairway at the left of the
twelfth fairWay, and that an easier sec
ond shot may be made from the lett
side than from the straight line to the
hole. The bunkers in front of the old
green have not been removed, but they
do not obstruct the view to the green
from a long tee shot. Chevy Chase now
has had two new greens placed in play
this year. The fifteenth green was
reconstructed last Winter and has been
in play for several months.
Rear Admiral A. T. Long came into
the caddie house at Chevy Chase the
other day with a query that puzzled
the professionals. 1t seems that he put
his second shot in bunker and in at
tempting to play out of the hazard he
hit the face of the bunker and the ball
bounded back into one of the pockets
on the wind breaker he was wearing.
Admiral Long was in a game with his
wife and neither of them knew what
the rule was Nor did the professionals
until they looked up the rule, which
states that "if players ball strike or
be stopped by himself, or his partner
or either of their caddies, his side shall
lose the hole" But the rule does not
impose any penalty for medal play.
D. A. Roberts won the golf champion
ship Of the Kiwanis Club in the tourney
played yesterday over the course OF the
indian Spring Golf Club. Roberts
registered a score of 93-22-71, to lead
w. H. Pattison by one stroke, Pattison
having 98-26-72.
Roberts was presented with the
Schwartz trophy at a dinner at the
clubhouse last night. C. H. Pardoe won
the low gross prize with card of 86.
E. M. Wallace was second with 81. and
r. Lester Rose was third with SO.
other prizes were presented as follows:
First low net club prize, A. L. Graham,
Baltimore, 99-25-74; second. Daniel
Neill, Baltimore, 94-18-76; third,
Emmett Gary, Baltimore, 102-25-77.
Herbert r. Shannon was reelected
to the presidency of the Columbia
Country Club at the annual meeting OF
the club last night. Clyde B. Asher
was elected vice president and Arthur
B. Shelton and John Poole were re-
elected secretary and treasurer. re-
spectively. Members OF, the board OF
governors we're elected as follows:
Donald woodward. Lanier P. McLach-
len. A. Y. Leech, jr.; Arthur B. Heaton
and Karl w. Corby Annual reports of
the golf and greens committees were
read. the reports of both committees
showing unusually heavy play on the
golf course