Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-17
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

A IR transportation to the local
~ golf clubs has arrived. 1t ar
"A rived yesterday in routine
4 \ way, when Ray F. Clarity,
chairman of the Manor Club
golf committee, and three friends, in
GLIDING the writer, took the short hop
by air from Hoover Field, in nearby Viz
ginia, to the landing field at the Manor
Club, IA miles from the heart OF WASH
ington, on the Norbeck-Sandy Spring
pike.
The idea Of travelling to the Manor
Club by airplane for a round OF golf
has been buzzing around in Garrity'S
head for several days. Only q short
while ago the airplane field, near the
fifteenth green, was leveled and rolled,
and although several planes from the
Congressional Airport, over on Wis.,
consin avenue, have used the field, no
washington had landed there. So far
as we know. there never has been a
party Of golfers leave downtown Wash
ington just after lunch, hop into a
plane and land on the property OF a
nearby golf club at a well equipped
landing field, and be ready for play q
little more than a half hour after the
time the members left their Offices.
When Clarity yesterday suggested
round of golf at Manor we were en-
thusiastic. We were more SO when he
divulged we would go to the Manor
Club by airplane. Fortunately we had
had a little air experience, and short
hop in plane, while bit novel as
manner of reaching golf club, was
nothing to get excited about. So we
met at Hoover Field. There we found
Clarity, Dave L. Thomson, chairman
of the Manor Club green's committee,
and Arthur Larkins of Cleveland, a
business associate of Thomson. The
ship, we found, was q sturdy four
scatter.
New to Three Of Them.
Clarity, Thomson and Larkins hoped
in. not bit disturbed by the fact that
they never had been off the ground be-
fore, and we were off. golf bags and
luggage piled around. Washington
passed swiftly below us and shortly we
were out over the rolling hills Of Rock
Greek Park, following the Norbeck pike,
while over at the right were the lengthy
the wsy we never will feel the same
about Indian Spring. From the air the
, maze of traps look terrifying, and we
don't know how any golfer can get
around that course in par or better.)
Away off to the west were Columbia
and Chevy Chase, hard to distinguish
as golf courses. Up ahead was the
Manor Club and toward 1t we sped at
speed of about 10 miles an hour, held
by strong head wind.
The pilot was not familiar with the
territory and he never had landed on
the field before We came above
the Manor Club and he signaled down
with an interrogatory wave of the hand:
"Is that it?" he said. And we signaled
back, eyes" The plane swung high
over the towering trees that fringe the
fairways on the new first nine and 1t
became apparent why scoring is so hard
at Manor. From an elevation OF 1,0OO
feet those fairways looked like nothing
more than narrow ribbons OF grass.
Swinging lower and again crossing the
golf course, the plane came down over
the pike again and landed gently, and
without bump. There an automobile
was awaiting the golfers, and within
three minutes we were dressing for the
game. Elapsed time-from downtown
Office to the first tess minutes. Time
In the air-18 minutes. The pilot said
we might make it in II or IL minutes
with a TAN winAror without any wind
at all.
Helps Thompson's Game.
That air spin did not affect Dave
ThonIpson's golf, or maybe 1t affected
him in the right way, for f1a barely
missed an eagle on the first hole and