Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-30
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T. isn't often that four brides are
. scored on a difficult par hole by
all the members of four-ban
match. But the four men in

| UT isn't often that four brides are
scored on a difficult par hole by
| all the members of a four-ball
i match. But the four men in a
game composed of Herbert L.
Lacey, j. w. Harvey, jr.; j.. Monro
Hunter and George Diffenbaugh, came
within an eyelash of doing this thing
on the eleventh hole at Indian Spring
yesterday.
Three of them secured birdie IS and
the fourth missed q five-foot putt by
whisker Harvey was the gent whose
putt failed to drop and none of the
puts holed by the others was more
than SIX feet in length. The hole is
385 yards long and is considered one
Of the hardest par As at Indian Spring.
Bob Barnett, the diminutive pro at
Chevy Chase, had great chance to
better his course record of IS the other
day In a match with DR.. r. D. Adams
which was stopped by shower. The
Chevy Chase pro played good golf up
to the seventh hole, but on this hole
he sank a mashie niblic pitch for an
eagle 2, which enabled him to get out
in 80 strokeS-which Is three under
par.
Even at that he took three puts on
the ninth hole in his effort to secure
another eagle 2 and get out in 80.
after driving the green. He started
back 3, 3, 4, 3, 4, which is one under
par for the first five holes of the last
nine, when the game was stopped by
rain.
But Sep" Collins and Billy Molloy
have the hardest luck story to tell. 1t
seems they were playing late game at
Columbia the other day against Martin
r. West, one of the best of Columbia's
amateurs. The match was close, and
when Collins Clipped into the hole for
birdie 3 at the seventeenth, 1t looked
as If the young professionals might win.
But West holed a 25-footer for a half.
Then Collins again Clipped in for an
other birdie at the eighteenth only
to have West retaliate by knocking in
another 8-yarder for his second con-
secutive birdie 3, for a half. That
brace of IS enabled West to cover the
better than par, and Is about as fine
stretch of golf as any amateur has
registered about Washington this year.
Every once in a while Bob Barnett
gathers up two Of his young assistants
in the shop at Chevy Chase and plays
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and the price of motion picture show
that evening. Bob believes that this
is an excellent way to coach the young
sters in golf and give them something
to shoot for at the same time. Yester-
day he ran into a pair of tough nuts
to crack in Gene Larkin and Elwood,
and Barnett was not good enough to
trim them. In fact, they trounced him
by the satisfactory margin of up and
to play, turning up on the Chevy
Chase mentor and increasing the lead
as the match progressed. Larkln was
the fair-haired boy Of the match, reg
istering a 70, notwithstanding 6 on
the eighteenth hole, which was played
in the dark.
Junior golfers of Washington were
practicing TODAY over the course Of the
Town and Country Club in preparation
for the District junior title event, which
will be held over the Bethesda course
next Wednesday at SO holes medal play.
The tourney is open to junior men,
bers and sons of members of member
clubs of the District Golf Association,
under 81 years of age.
Entries for the event close with DR..
w. c. Barr. secretary of the association,
at the Town and Country Club, Sunday
night at 6 o'clock. The title now is
held by John c. Shorey Of Bannock-
burn.
Rock Creek Parks "Oily Boids" have
completed the first round Of their Sep
TENDER tournament and are well into
the second round Those who. have
been beaten in the first and second
rounds have advanced into a series of
bye" tournaments. for the losers.