Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-11
LONG PUTT SPELLS
M'LEOD'S VICTORY
15.Footer on 18th Green Is
Margin Over Town and
Country Pair.
TRED MCLEOD. Columbia profess
l. sional ran down a 15-foot putt
= for a birdie on the par 3

Tired MCLEOD, Columbia profess
l. sional, ran down a 15-foot putt
for a birdie 2 on the par 3
l. seventeenth hole at the Town
and Country Club yesterday and
thereby spoiled for William @. Illch
and Arthur B. Thorn Of Town and
Country what had been particularly
pleasant afternoon up to that moment.
That l5-footer which ratified In the
bottom of the tin for the birdie from
the face of the aluminium putter that
Mcleod uses so effectively was the only
margin between two bankruptcies
sional teams who put on a four-bsll
exhibition match yesterday as the fea-
ture event Of the field day of the club.
staged by Illch as chairman Of the golf
committee. Other events included a
mixed Scotch foursome. an 18-hole
handicap affair. putting contest and
horseshoe throwing contest.
Mcleod paired with Howard Nord-
linger, who has been champion Of the
Town and Country Club on several
occasions. beat the team of Illch and
Thorn by up. Both the professionals
scored 70 for the double circuit of the
nine-hole course, although Mcleod was
given an Appropriated on the thir-
teenth hole. where, he picked UP his
ball when his partner had secured a
birdie 3. The match was between the
two professionals most of the way, al
though Nordlinger aided Mcleod on the
thirteenth, and Illch helped Thorn on
the tenth. Nordlinger had an indi-
vidual score of II, while Illch picked up
on one or two holes where he had
played too many strokes to figure in
the result.
One of the features Of the match was
the pair of lengthy wooden club shots
played by Mcleod on the long sixth
hole. a 487-yard affair, where the little
Columbia mentor played a spoon shot
to the green from the rough and Sc
cured a birdie 4. The four were all
square coming to the seventeenth, when
Freddie spilled the beans for the other
side by holing the 15-footer that spelled
victory. At that, on the final green,
Thorn had an 8-footer to make birdie
3, which would have squared the match,
but the ball refused to drop. Thorn
also missed another 8-footer for birdie
8, on the fifteenth.
The mixed Scotch foursome event
was won by Mrs. Harry Hahn and her
son, Harry, jr., who scored 51-15-36
for the 9-hole tourney. In second
place were Mr.. and Mrs. H. Shapiro,
who had 54-17-37, and MIR. and Mrs.
s. w. StrauS played themselves into
third place with 51-12-39.
The medal play handicap event for
men was won by william Wolf, who
scored 102-40-62. A. j. Stephens
finished second with 90-24-66, while
s: M. Reveness was third with 1o3--
$50. Isaac Behrend, Leopold
Freudberg and Robert Baum tied for
fourth with net scores Of SO.
Five golfers tied for first place in
the putting contest, all scoring 10
with balls putted from all four cor
ners Of the fifth green. They were
Isaac Behrend, Marx kaufman, H.
M. Shapiro, William @. nlch and Leo
pold Freudberg. The tie will be played
of later.
willard Goldheim won the horseshoe
pitching contest, defeating Gilbert
Hahn In the final round Of the tourney,
81 points to II. Joseph D. kaufman,
president of the club. was beaten In the
semi.fnal BY Goldheim.