Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-07
BY WALTER n. McCALLUM.

A THOUGH only two teams have
n entered so far in the One-ball
II competition scheduled as the
4 "A piece de resistance of the day
at Indian Spring tomorrow,
Chairman McCarter hopes to have
half dozen or more teams OF four men
entered in this unique affair before play
starts. Never before in the long his
tory of the game about Washington
has such a competition been tried, and
1t may well be that those who play IN
it will find 1t such fun more tourna-
mentS Of the same kind will be re-
quested.
Here Is the way IL works out: -Four
men enter as team and name a cap
tain, who gives tie orders. One man
plays q wooden club. and carries that
club alone: another plays an iron, an
| other plays the imashie or mashie MD.
lick, while the fourth puts the ball
| into the hole. The event offers all
kinds of interesting angles, such as the
chance offered the captain to pick the
best putter, the best iron player, the
best driver and so forth. The captain
shall designate what type of shot Is to
be played, and the man carrying the
club called for by the shot must play
| 1t. The two teams entered SO far con-
sist of the following: No. /, Roger Pea
cock. captain; William p. Di Este, Lee
roy Sasscer and Elliott Spicer; No. 2,
Dr. Walter b. Vogel, captain; G. w.
McCarter, Z. b. Wagner and DR.. George
w. Maxfield. On form the f1rst-named
team should win an overwhelming VIC
tory, for it is doubtful II from the en-
tire membership of the club better
team Of four men could be chosen. But
accidents sometimes happen in such al
fairs as this, and 1t may well be that
some team containing less formidable
individual golfers will walk In and reap
the glory and the prizes.
The junior championship OF the
| Indian Spring Club, which was orig
inally scheduled for settlement on
September IS, has been moved forward
few days and will be played on
September 10. This Is 36-hole medal
play affair, and was won last year by
| Roger Peacock, the newly crowned Dis
trict junior champion. The reason for
| the moving forward of the playing date
is the fact that many of the competitors
in the tourney expect to compete IN
the invitation event Of the Rolling
Road Golf Club next week. Among
those from Indian Spring who already
have said they hope to play are Peacock.
DR.. L. S. Otell, Charles w. Cole, jr.;
| Byrn Curtiss, Elliott Spicer, Leroy
SaSscer and Emmert Heitmuller.
II a long lay-off from golf will work
the miracles it worked for Sam Rice
yesterday. every golfer should take
few months away from the game and
then enter q stiff medal play COMPETE
ton. The Washington outfielder took
down his golf clubs two days ago for
the first time in more than two months,
spent half q day at Indian Spring prac-
ticing and then went out and won the
left handed championship of Washing
ton and environs for the second con-
secutive time. Beating back sturdy
challenge flung at him by Byrn Curtiss,
the steady and imperturbable Rice
played what is probably the finest game
Of golf he ever has shot to register
score of u over the last round of the
36-hole medal play event and win the
"Namandji Nindj' trophy, place In
competition by DR.. Lester A. Reeves,
by two strokes. CurtiSs didn't falter
and quit under fire. Rice was just too
good, for the round of golf registered
by the stalwart ball player was one OF
the best we ever have seen.
Yesterday was an open day on the
schedule Of the ball club, and DR..
Reeves chose it as the day for the tour
nament because he wanted Rice to de-
fend the cup he won last year. How
nobly he did it is told In the bare ng-
ures which relate how Rice spun two
rounds of the long and hard Indian
Spring layout in ISL, averaging 1917 per
round, while Curtiss finished with l63,
the same total which placed him In the
runner-up position in the District junior
championship two days back. Curtiss
led over the first round with fine score
Of rs. But Rice was just feeling his
way along to register q 10, getting back
the swing of the clubs he had not
touched since June. Starting out In the
afternoon, Rice went after his opponent
with a vengeance, and, finding his puts
going down, kept increasing the pressure
until he got out in "a, better than
Curtiss could do, and not only caught
his man, but passed him by stroke.
Rice got back another at the tenth, and
sank long putt to halve the eleventh.
and after that he was in. The sturdy
sWatSmitl1 was wild as hawk from the
tee, but was making the most impossible
recoveries and sinking every Notable
putt. For example, on the eleventh, he
hooked to . trap, sliced to another trap,