Evening star., 1930-06-03


Plans are in the making at the Indian
Spring Club to pull of an exhlbltion
match on the return from England OF
Bobby Jones, which will include the
emperor of golf, George j. Voigt, the
Washington bred boy who has become
an internationally famous golfer; Leo
Diegel, national pro match play tltle-
holder and j. Monro Hunter, the gar
gantuan hitter OF Indian spring.
will meet In a combat over the Indian
Spring course, Just as Leo Diegel ana
Horton Smith appeared here last year
for the same cause.-The relief OF boppy
McWatt, professional, who was so oaoiy
injured in an automobile ACCIDENT Two
years ago that he never. will walk again.
The plan is, according TO the Sponsors,
to raise enough money to BUY Body
McWatt a miniature golf course wnlcn
he can onerate and which will assure
him at least a modest income.
Last wear Diegel and Smith made no
charge for their services and even palso
their own expenses. The same plan VIII
be followed this year.
According to the best information
available at Indian Spring, Jones already
has given his promise to appear. so
have Voigt and Diegel, and so IT appears
the match is q virtual certainty.
Meanwhile word comes from the
Pacific Coast of the death by drowning
i'm the Hoquiam River Of Washington
State, of Donald Ball, formerly pro-
fessional at Columbia. When Balls
BODY was found one of his pockets con-
tanned a letter written TO him by
woodrow Wilson in 1913.
Have you ever seen 6-inch putt
missed? Tom Belshe of Argyle, mem
Der of the War Department goll team
in the Interdepartmental Golf League
tourney at Indian Spring, and leader
today in the chase for. the indlyldual
championship, may well bewau the D.
inch putt he missed yesterday on the
thirty-fifth hole of the tourney, for 1t
may cost him the championship II one
of the competitors today gets not
Tom led the field in the opening round
of play with a card of rs, six strokes In
front Of Mel Shipley, defending tlte-
holder, and then in the afternoon, not
withstanding q bad start, he stood on
the seventeenth tee needing par on the
next two holes for a rs. At the thirty
fifth his putt for 8 hit the cup ana
STAYED out, and he carelessly struck Ene
hall which Law only 6 inches from the
cup. Belshe's ball jumped right out OF
the cup again, forcing him to take ,
AS it was he finished the last hole with
another for @ card of 78 to lead the
chase for the individual championship
with a 36-hole card Of 154. Shtpley
added a II in the afternoon to his
morning card of 81 and was flve strokes
behind.
Low net in the initial rounds yester-
day went to j. r. Swindell OF the Bureau
of Standards, who had 16l-26-lS5.
Second low net honorS went TO j. T.
Robertson of the Post Once Depart
ment, who had 162-24-l36. e. L. Co
gan. who used to caddie for Roland
Mackenzie, and e. r. Strohm OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission, tied
for third place with net cards OF l3S.
The big thrill of the day came to Il.
M. Brown Of the Interstate Commerce
Commission, who scored an eagle on
the par third hole by crashing out
l90-yard drive and then holing mid-
iron shot. Lots of brides were made
during the day, most of them coming
on the short holes, @. w. McCarter,
chairman of the Indian Spring golf
committee, found the fourteenth hole
to his liking, scoring bird 2, and Co
gan holed q bird on the short sixth.
Most of the Government golfers found
their main difiiculty on the seventh hole,
where a lake intrudes between tee and
fairway and must be carried. Fights
and mines, and even tens were common
on this hole About 100 players were
listed to start on the second and final
day of the tourney today and only two