Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-11
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

| mi at his own game, and II he
, " happens to be golf profess
sional, lay of - brother - lay
off! There's an old golfing axiom aoou'
not playing for money against profes-
SIGNALS unless you expect to lose, fol
tradition has it that the gents who
make their living from the royal and
ancient game of outdoor pool always
have something in reserve when they
play against amateurs, and that this
something, like the trick rabbits OF
the magician, can be pulled out OF the
hat at any moment.
Capt. w. ]. Clear of the Washington
Golf and Country Club had bright
idea the other day. He had bought a
few clubs from Dave Thomson, the
Washington pro, for which ne owed
Davie something between $25 and $50
Clear Is a man with sporting blood in
his veins, and so Is Davie. In fact
little Davie, the popular pro at Wash
ington, sometimes leans bit too far
back to give the other chap break
But this time Clear proposed that they
play for the money, on double-or-
nothing basis, with Thomson to give
the amateur three holes on each nine
Davie agreed and they started of.
They played the first nine holes ex-
actly even. with Clear hanging on like
grim death and Davie struggling to
break loose from that big handicap
When the captain won the tenth hole
with par and thus became 4 up with
to play, aided by his handicap OF
three holes in the last nine, Davie took
another notch in his belt, pulled his
cap down low over his eyes, and pro-
ceeded to blast that golf course wide
open with the most phenomenal string
of brides ever witnessed at the Wash
ington layout.
Davie did nothing less than play the
next four holes in consecutive brides
and then, drawing level with Clear, he
coasted home to an easy victory. In
deed, the little pro took brace of SIS
on the seventeenth and eighteenth and
still played the nine in 80 strokes,
which is three below par.
At the eleventh the Scot holed putt
for birdie 2. At the twelfth he got a
birdie 3. At the thirteenth he got an
other birdie 3. At the fourteenth he
! holed another birdie 2, and perhaps the
reason he didn't get birdie 4 cn the
long fifteenth was because he didn't
need it to win the hole.
Anyhow. he just breezed in to win the
match from Clear and thereby prove
again the truth of the old golf adage:
Don't bet your money against pro-
fessional, and particularly If he comes
from Montrose."
THEY put on great show out at
i Indian Spring last evening. TAX
ing advantage of the cool weather
some 400 members and guests Of the
club played golf, enjoyed q barbecue
dinner and then sat on temporary
bleachers to witness some 20 rounds OF
boxing, topped of with a battle royal
described by Announcer Jimmy Lake as
collision of Senegambians. AND
how they collided. They chased each
other around that ring, seeking pro-
miscuously until finally the lad repre-
senting Chevy Chase and the boy from
Manor decided the ring was too re-
stricted for their combat and they
jumped the ropes and proceeded to say
it with socks under the feet. of the
spectators. They were separated by q
bucket of cold water, but meanwhile
the other boys left in the ring thought
the party was over and forgot to fight
Finally, after the referee had vainly
sought to make them scrap, he held
up the hand of Jim King, bandy-legged
little Indian Spring caddie, who had
shown more willingness to mix than the
others, and Jim got the 10 smackers
the club had put up for the prize Some
OF the other bouts were interesting, but
the crowd thought there was a bit toe