Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02


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Barthelow at Bannockburn
last Thursday From the twelfth tee
Wheeler pulled his ball into the WOODS
at the left of the fairway. BartheloW
went on ahead after Wheeler found
his ball and stood about IFS yards
away as Wheeler played from the
woods. His head was turned away
while Wheeler played his shot toward
the green. and the ball, struck at
sharp angle to the right, found It's
billet in Barthelows shirt pocket;
One day Jack Hoffman was playing
at washington. and playing badly. He
stood on the first tee and apparently
tried to drive the green. But ne
heeled the ball badly and it came to
rest in the cuff Of his trousers.
President H. A. Mihills has called a
special meeting of the membership OF
the Indian Spring Golf Club TO Sc
cure additional subscriptions to the
building fund. for construction OF ad-
ditions and improvements to the Indian
Spring clubhouse.
For two or three years J. Monro
Hunter, the far-ranging hitter OF In
dian Spring, has been concerned about
getting a good shaft for the wooden
clubs with which he hits his gargan-
tuan tee shots. He has practically
given up hope Of ever getting wooden
club shaft which has SUFFICIENT stiff
ness to stop excessive torSion or turn
ing of the clubhead and at the same
time not be too unwiedy to use.
In his extremity he has taken to steel
shafts, and has found them none too
we'll suited to his mighty swing. He
calls them tin shafts" and says they
twist In his hands as he goes into the
ball. To the average individual steel
shafts have practically no torsion
and will not twist in the club head as
it meets the ball. But Hunter strikes
the ball such q hard blow that even
steel shafts twist from the impact. So
he decided to find steel shaft that
would not twist.
He took an extra long steel shaft
of the lap-joint construction type, cut
of several inches from its bottom,
thereby increasing its stiffness, and
stuck it in a favorite wooden club
head. And now he finds that he at last
has shaft that will not give. In
fact he complains the shaft Is q little
too stiff. But when he meets the ball
properly with this stiff steel shaft, how
it does ride
Fred Mcleod and Sandy Armour
don't hit the ball quite as hard as
Hunter, and are two Scottish profess
SIGNALS of the old school who won't
play steel shafts as long as they can
get good wooden ones. Neither will
Dave Tomson of Washington. But Nc
Leod is almost completely discouraged
about the wooden club shaft situation
He wants to get a wooden club with a
stiff shaft to play fairway shots with.
and has had an order in for several
weeks But so far he has not been
able to get what he wants. He wants
the club particularly to use at Oak
mont, where he will attempt to qualify
in the national open week from to-
morrow. Armour sticks to wooden
shafts, and so does Thomson. but Ar
thur B. Thorn of Town and Country
uses steel, while Bob Barnett of Chevy
Chase is fortunate enough to have sew
eral fine wooden shafts in his distance
getting clubs.
What would you think the odds are
against the rank and file of golfers
getting on the eighteenth green at Co.
lumbia in two shots? william E. Shan
non Of Columbia thinks the odds are at
least 20 to l. and possibly higher. He
sat behind the eighteenth green the
other day laying those odds against
every man who came to the eighteenth
and claims he won big majority of his
bets, as he would have to do to split
even at those odds The eighteenth
hole at Columbia is 407 yards long, and
should be reached by many golfers in
two shots. But the last few yards Of
the distance Is uphill, and the traps at
right and left of the green increase
the mental hazards of the hole.
Chairman Guy Mason of the Con-
gressional Country Club tournament
committee has instituted a novel scheme
which has done we'll toward reducing
course congestion on crowded days. He
has appointed two course rangers"
from the ranks Of experienced caddies,
given them a note authorizing them to
do the job and sent them out to find
congested spots on the course and
straighten out the tangle. He has in
structed them also to ask players when
they reach the greens on the short
holca to instruct the players in the
match behind to drive, and they may
then putt out while the other match
goes toward the green. The plan Is
working out satisfactorily. according to
Mason and speeds up play considerably.