Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-21
Good Samaritan Golfer Gets
Nicked BY Bee and Dame Luck

game" Abbatichio philosophical today.
I'VE get EN-. good and bad, and I guess
| they even themselves up. But I wish
that doggoned bee hadn't been so free
with his probosciS."
Lots of things happened at Bannock-
burn yesterday. In the first round there
was Leo Pass, the lion of Bannockburn,
having John Miller hole a 20-footer
across the eighteenth green to square
the match, and Leo driving ball clear
across the road at the first hole to lose
the hole to the fighting Miller. Ard
| then there were two other upsetS in the
| first round, the first when John Thackei
knocked over Bill Pendergast, who tied
| for the medal and who had been looked
upon as q potential winner of the tour
nament. And then Martin F. Mccarthy,
another Of the trio, who tied for the
medal, was beaten up by c. S. Runs
at Beaver Dam, who was practically un-
known until he eliminated the fighter
with the Irish name.
Has Ups and Downs.
, And they continued through the Sec
ond round. Comdr. William g. Pop
ham Of Annapolis, the same man who
holed an eagle in the play-on for q
place in the first flight, was dormie 8
| UP on Erwin p Hair Of Washington,
and Hair squared the match, sinking O
putt clear across the eighteenth green
for birdie to win, only to slice o ball
so wildly at the nineteenth that 1t found
an unplayable lie, and he lost the hole
and permitted the genial Bill to 60 into
the semi-f1nal. Meanwhile the youth
full John Thacker was having life and
death struggle with JOHN r. Miller,
which finally ended when the lad
popped 4-footer into the hole around
q half styrnie at the eighteenth to beat
Miller up.
The four semi-finalists are Page Hufty
Of Congressional, who had a fairly easy
time; Popham and Thacker and John
c. Shorey Of Bannockburn, the home
club ace, who was not seriously extend
ed by Jesse Baggett and John j. Lynch.
Shorey Is playing with an injured finger,
but 1t Is not so seriously hurt that he
cannot play winning golf. Against
Lynch he was exactly fours for 10 holes.
Fred w. Rade Of Manor wishes US to
call the attention Of Frank Ehlers.
Charles Shaffer and Jack Rutter Of
Manor to the fact that he has quail
fed in O big golf tournament, and in
the second flight, too. It seems that
Rade has been getting what the boys
call the "rauzberry" from the three
gents named because of his heretofore
ment. Whenever they saw Fred ap-
preaching they alluded to him as "our
tournament player who never qualities"
Rade, incidentally, was billed as the
winner of the low net prize In the
medal round at Bannockburn. A mis-
take was made In computing the score
and the committee announced that the
low net prize will 60 to Joseph O'Hare,
Bannockburn veteran, who scored 81
1856, two strokes better than Rade's
net Of SO.
Did you know that Reid w. Digges,
former club champion of Indian Spring
and third man In last years District
championship, now is full-f1edged air.
man and that he pilots a plane on
regular schedule between Washington
and points North?. Tony Sylvester, the
rotund Bannockburn pro, is authority
for the statement that Digges is a regu-
lar air pilot now and once in a while,
Sylvester says, Digges dips his plane
low over the Bannockburn hills, soaring
Tony half to death for fear he will
crack UP on Tony's well kept fairways.