Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-14
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

TT seems that a young giant killer is
being groomed to bigger and bet
ter conquests on the golf courses
of the South this year in the per-
son of Billy Howell, the tall blond
lad from Richmond, who today is the
only man about Washington who has
been able this year to win two major
tournaments in a row within the short
space of seven days.
Not that Billy looks as if he might
go as far as Bobby Jones has been
able to travel, but if winning two big
golf events against the sternest and
best opposition the midatlantic terri
tory can produce means anything, we
must concede that Howell is by way of
becoming a giant killer or jabberwock,
or whatever they call those fellows
who refuse to take it on the chin.
The young man appears to have Gull
tivated the winning habit, as he
showed yesterday at the Columbia
Country Club in out-clubbing Roger
Peacock of Indian Spring in the semi
final and then trouncing Paul j. FriZ-
zell of Columbia in the final to win
| his second major tournament in q
week
Every one knows how Billy wsded
| Thorough good opposition TO win the
midatlantic title at Richmond week
ago today, and those who watched the
youngSter perform throughout the
Columbia tournament predict that
Howells golf days, bright as they are
now. will be even brighter in future
years when he learns that a missed
shot is not necessarily a lost hole.
Bad Shots Peeve Him.
Just now the youngster is such a fine
stylist and knows so well how golf
ball should be struck that when he half
hits one, or it is not played exactly
as he intended, he grieVes. Jones used
to do the same thing, but Bobby got
over 1t when he learned that they all
miss them occasionally and that a
missed shot is simply a challenge to
come back with the winning effort.
Billy is learning the same thing and
when he learns that lesson he will have
gone a long way along the road to
greater golf glory than he yet has
known.
Next week the Richmond youngster
is to make a bid for the Southern
amateur golf title at Greensboro. N. c.,
! and there isn't much doubt that he
will be one of the formidable contest
! ants for the title. Another boy we'll
known to Washington golfers will be in
! there trying for the title, too, for Dick
! Wilson, Georgetown student and golfer
| also is an entrant.
! Any lad who can win two big tourna-
| mentS in row against such opposition
as Howell had at Richmond and CO.
lumbia is good enough to win any
sectional championship. BY his Mid
atlantic victory Howell automatically
became eligible to play in the national
amateur. His victory yesterday at Co.
lumbia clinched the argument, If there
ever could be any He may not be able
to go, for he intends TO matriculate
at Washington and Lee in the Fall, but
a trip to big time company in Phila-
delphia next September would not dc
him bit of harm and might teach
him a lot.
Although Frizzell gave Howell plenty
to think about in the final round yes.
terday, the match in the semi ina
between Roger Peacock of Indian
Spring and the Richmond youth wa,
the best of the day These two younl
gamecocks fought it out to the fina
putt on the eighteenth green before
Howell put the quietus on Peacock
while Frizzel was making a game
comeback to square his match witt
Clyde B. Asher and finally win it witt
birdie on the second extra hole.
OF With MaShie Niblick.
In the Afternoon Howell's mashie
niblick work. usually so accurate, wa.
off, and he went l down to FriZZell a.
the eighth, where he took three puts
squaring the match with a par 4 or
the ninth when an airplane did a nose
dive above the Columbia mans head a,
he swung at his ball on the tee, anc
popped it into a bunker. They halvec
the tenth and eleventh in mediocre S.!
and then Howell started the winning
parade. He laid a niblick shot fee
from the hole at the long twelfth tc
win with a birdie 4, won the thirteenth
with a par 3 when Frizzell missed E
4-footer. halved the fourteenth in S.:
and won the fifteenth with a par tt
go dormie up. The sixteenth wa!
halved in par IS and the Richmond
youngster had tucked another scalp al
his belt.
o All credit is due Frizzell for his game
effort In the Columbia tourney. Rated