Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-12
BY w. r. McCALLUM.


- OMETIMES good golf finds a
good reward. And sometimes
poor golf finds an equally good
ending. Capt. Lawrence L. Steele
Of Indian Spring knows today
about both kinds of golf, good and bad,
which found an equally happy conclu-
sion and aided In no small measure in
the drawn battle which his club team
fought yesterday with the Fountain
Head Country Club of Hagerstown.
The good golf came on the holes up
to the eleventh on the rolling and alto
gether fine course of the Fountain Head
Club. The poor golf came on the elev-
enth. But If the results are judged, the
poor golf yielded the same measure OF
apparent skill sthat the good shots re-
vealed. Those low-lying masses of rock
which thrive in the rough at Fountain
Head aided In the equation, too.
At the ninth hole Steele ran down
a 20-foot putt for birdie to win the
hole for Indian Spring: At the tenth
hole Homer Putting) Pope, his part
ner, ran down a 30-footer for another
birdie to win the hole, and by this time
their Hagerstown opponents, AL Hart
and Clarence Stickell. were getting
grimmer and grimmer as they saw VIC
tory slipping away.
But the climax came on the eleventh
where Steele topped his tee shot badly
on this dog-leg affair, then took out
an iron club to play across the bend
to the green. He hit the ball we'll and
it disappeared around a bend in the
trees, plainly ticketed to be far beyond
the green and away off in the rough
But when it came to earth it struck the
projecting end of one Of those rock
masses and bounced merrily back on
the green.
Pope in the meantime was out OF
the hole, and that miraculous shot by
Steele enabled his side to gain hall on
the hole.
After the third Of a series Of tricks
such as these the Hagerstown men gave
was one of the two Indian Spring COM
binations to win three points, the other
being the Presidential pair Of Perry B.
Hoover and w. Byrn CurtisS.
When all the matches but one were
in and the visitors were seated In the
locker room, while a cold rain beat
down outside. Indian Spring led by 1872
points to 1912, but out there in the
rain Herbert A. Mihills, president Of the
Indian Spring Club. and B. Simpich,
his partner. dropped three points and
the match ended in a tie.
A return engagement will be played
later in the season.
We should not like to dismiss the
story of this match without word for
the fine caddie system at Fountain
Head. The boys are we'll trained and
on the job every minute. When the rain
came down over the mountains OF
Western Maryland yesterday they
closed the windows Of every automobile
in the club parking space.
DR.. Larry Otell of Indian Spring reg
istered the best score for the par II
layout, turning in a card of rs. His
good golf yielded him nothing but Dead
Sea apples, however. for Carl Stone
braker, the Hagerstown ace, shot a "A
against the Indian Spring medico and
trimmed him. Stonebraker had as his
partner the club professional, Alex Tay-
lor.
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n; Tliiey, ,s eng Pa Cook Ok, India. indian
P; B. Hoover and Byrn Curtiss. Indian
Spring, 3 points; Sam Newman and VIE
dian Spring. points; Al Hart and Clarence
br s Vese and 10 POINTS W. Mccart.r
dian Spring. point; charles Powlss and
william EFns snd gelpsss indian
Moore: Haeerstown. "a point:
Spring uf point' AhS Alteaderfer ana d0' "a
Blair, -Haserstown; ~ points: -
simprh 6,r and Mah,ll' 1gd,sn
pr. q: ". Baker and John c. winem.n:
Arthur Erosion. HagerstoWn. 2la points. '
Leo Diegel and Horton Smith, famous