Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-07
PAR 60 CAUSES HIM
TO TRY P|NEHURST
Home Pro Strikes Scoring
Streak in Attempting
to Iron Out Game.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

RTHUR B. THORN of the Town
~ and Country Club, who holds
"A down the dual post of pro-
4 A fessional and greenskeeper al
the Bethesda organization and
incidentally is one of the very best
golfers among the professionals Of the
Midatlantic sector, was undecided
whether to 60 to Pinehurst next week
for the Fail pro tournament. He said
he was not satisfied with his game and
he did not feel that he should go unless
his game improved to such an extent
that he felt Ae could make a salts
factory showing.
So yesterday he decided to play a
game of golf, just to see what it was
that kept his shots from clicking as
they should. The upshot of the game
was that Arthur will go to Pinehurst,
for he couldn't do bit better than SO
yesterday over his home course. Sixty
nine is exactly par for the Town and
on day when holes that ordinarily are
drive and iron affairs became the
equivalent in distance of two wooden
shots. Holes like the second and ninth
from the back teeS-bscame holes
that needed a pair of wooden club
clouts to get home. while short hole
like the f1fth-181 yards-became a
spoon shot.
Makes Sharp Comeback.
Arthur was playing in a game with
s. NJ. Leidy and j. Hoffmaeir and the
fact that he made the SO was not the
remarkable thing of the game It was
the way he did 1t. For the little Town
and Country Club pro, after starting
with birdie on the first hole, took
. nasty on the second, where he pull
ed his spoon shot and then took three
puts He covered the first nine holes
In 81 strokes and apparently was head
ed for mediocre "a or 75-and score
like that is just ordinary golf for a
man like Thorn.
Starting back over the last nine with
q quartet of IS, Thorn put his wooden
club tee shot at the fourteenth in the
big bunker at the right of the green.
It didn't look as If he could do better
than a 4, for the ball lay up against
the bank and the pin was in such a
place that it took one of the better
brand of pitch shots to get near it.
Arthur waded down in that loose sand
that looks like the shores of Chesa-
peake Bay and took a well controlled
Swipe at the ball. 1t rose suddenly and
sharply, took long hop and continued
rolling until the contrary thing rolled
into the cup for birdie 2. That was
the proper way to convert probable
4 into a very proper and form-fitting
deuce.
Gets Another Birdie.
But the long hole was vet to come
the hole that even from the forward tee
looms as very hard and a quite
probable 5. Thorn pounded out fine
tee shot-a little to the right, but one
which gave him an open shot to the
green. He took No. / iron and hit
that ball so accurately that he Rugged
a yard behind the flag and in direct
line with it. 1t might just as well have
gone in for an eagle D. but the 3 was a
cinch. Two brides in row on two of
the hardest holes on any local golf
course and Thorn was of. His putt for
a birdie Tipped the cup at the sixteenth,
and his bid for another bird fell of the
line only at the last moment at the
seventeenth. He canned an eight-footer
for a at the eighteenth after over
putting in his attempt to get SO.
And now Arthur thinks he may as
well go to PinehurSt and get some
more of that good golf out of his sys-
tenn. He feels that he might hit a
scoring streak down there in the sand
hills of the North Carolina resort which
might bring him home well up in the
money, so he is to leave Washington
Sunday night with Walter W. Cunning
ham. Mel Shorey of East Potomac Park
viii pair with Kenneth Allen of Bal
timore In the pro event at Pinehurst on
Tuesday. Sandy Armour and Sidney G.
Moore Of Congressional are planning to
make the trip, and possibly Bob Barnett
and Gene Larkin Of Chevy Chase will
go along to make the representation of
the Capital more complete. That lat
ter pair, If 1t goes, should make great
bid to win the pro-pro best ball event,
for they team admirably together and