Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-26
. P. (EDDIE) BROOKE, former
holder of the mid-Atlantic
championship and now one of
best players Of the iron clubs


who ever welded a mashie, now
holds a new record. He Is the first
player to make the tenth hole at the
Washington Golf and Country Club in
two strokes. It has been done before
from the front tee, but Brooke made
his eagle from the back tee. From
this point the hole measures something
like $50 yards and because of the ma
ture Of its topography 1t plays very much
longer If the tee shot Is not well hit.
Eddie was playing with Comdr. c. T..
Lynes and he barely got his tee shot of
the tee at the tenth. He didn't knock
it even as far as the "ladies' fairway,"
and the result of the drive left him a
blind shot of more than 100 yards to
green guarded by big bunker in
front and out -of-bounds area at the
left and rear. Brooke stepped down in
the rough with a big iron and hit the
ball an awful whack. He saw it dis
appear over the hill and hoped 1t might
be somewhere near the green, where he
might get down in par with a pitch
and putt.
Lynes knocked his ball on the green
and the search for Brooke's ball began.
They looked in the trap and over and
beyond the green and the ball was not
to be found. Finally Brooke said,
well, let 1t CO." and the caddie went
to the pin to hold It for Lynes' APP
proach putt. The boy suddenly yelled
out. Here's o ball in the cup" And,
sure enough, it was Brooke's ball. How
it was there was certain.
The hole was made in 2 few years
back by A.. w. Howard. one-armed
player of the Washington club, who
holed a mashie niblick shot. And the
green has been driven from the front
tee. But Brooke's deuce, so far as we
are aware, is the first to be made from
the back tee.
Henry D. Nicholson, the youngster
who is one Of the best players at the
Washington club, had a great chance
to shatter Maurice j. McCarthy's record
, of 66 for the course last week. He
was around in 81 strokes, which in
Guided no fewer than three greens with
8 puts each. AT the seventeenth
NICHOLSON hs had two Is to tie Nc
! the seventeenth green and finished with
; a 4 for a 81. .f
Nicholson and Tommy Webb revenged
themselves yesterday on John Owens
and Tommy Bones of Columbia for a
| defeat administered to them week ago
j at. Columbia, triumphing in a match
at washington over the Columbia pair
| by 3 to l.
! Bones and Owens found the first nine
Of the Washington course to their liking
! covering it with q best-ball total Of
| 80 to turn l up on the home club pair.
! But they both went bad on the last
nine to get home in 81, while Nicholson
| and Webb continued their steady scoring
! pace with best ball of 80 for a total
best ball of 66, which was three holes
better than that of the Columbia duo
Webb had the best score of the four
| with II. Bones and Nicholson had
70 and Owens had IA. They will play
! the rubber match at a neutral course
/ next Sunday. or as soon as they can
settle on neutral layout over which
TO decide the question of supremacy,
for last Sunday the Columbia pair won
over their own course.
DR.. William I. Otis scored an ace on
the 1S0-yard eighth hole at Bannock-
burn yesterday, playing a mashie shot
to the green which ended his ball in
the cup. He was playing with Dr. e. D.
Letter. Luther Florine added to the
unusual scores at Bannockburn yester-
day by holing the 425-yard ninth hole
ing the cup. s.
The golf team of the Indian Spring
Club absorbed a whipping yesterday at
the hands of the golfers Of the Rolling
Read Club of Gainesville, Md, the host
aggregation winning by one point. scor-
| ing 1914 points to 171a for the visitors.
J. Monro Hunter and George Diffen-
baugh. Indian ring professional duo,
won best ball watch from Carroll T.
McMaster. pro' at Rolling Road, and