Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-08
fave you ever tried to hit a golf
= ball coming through the air
with an ordinary golf club? No

r AVE you ever tried to hit a golf
II bali coming through the air
with an ordinary golf club? No
/ matter how good you may have
been as batsman in base Lall, you
/ viii need something more than luck to
/ hit a thrown golf ball with the face of
a golf club.
Wilson Barrett. well known member
of the Manor Club, claims that DR..
F q Horen would make a name for
himself as a maker of base hits in base
hall If he ever decided to forsake golf
for the diamond. According to Barrett,
Horen can HIT a golf ball in the air
further and better than he can from
the ground Here is the way Horen
demonstrated his skill.
At the seventh hole at the Manor
Club, where tall trees dominate the
landscape and provide a narrow path
way down which a golf ball may be
driven off it is hit straight), DIR. Horen,
who is normally a 100 scorer, hit wild
hook that struck one of those tall trees
at the left and about 80 yards from
the tee.
THE ball hit that three square in the
middle and ricocheted straight back
toward the tee, swift as an arrow.
HOren was QOWIlIISIIJ ildu, dllu do IlioO
ball came toward him. heading for a
space behind the tee he made Swipe
at il with his driver. He caught that
doegoned pill squarely on the face of
his driver and. with follow-through
reminiscent of Bobby Jones or Babe
Ruth. poled the pill more than 200
yards down the fairway.
THAT ball went farther than he had
driven a ball from the tee before that, =
Barrett said, land farther than he hit
one after that. And now, you fellows
who know the rules, please tell me just
what the penalty should be, If any. 1
think the Doc should get a medal for
hitting the ball. But instead of that
probably the golf sharps will decide
that he incurred a penalty. If you
think it's an easy job to hit flying
golf ball with golf club, try it your
self some time"
Dorothy Hunter. the long hitting
daughter of the Indian Spr. ng pro,
topped her tee shot at the fourth hole
at the Indian Spring Club few days
ago and that ball also did an astonish-
ing thing. First it hit tree at the
left, then it ricochetted against the
barn, then it bounced off the barn and
| hit the young women's golf bag, coming
| to rest right in front of her, just wait
ing to be set up on tee and be struck
again.
Over at Washington at the left of the
seventh tee, a small cedar tree sticks
out which is known as "Dickey's tree"
And whether v. Calvert Dickey has
worn that tree down, or not, we do not
know, but the small limbs and branches
of that tree are all worn off by contact
with erring golf balls. The truth of
the matter is that Dickey does take
that line from the tee and we have seen
his tee shot go through the tree, carry
| ing small and Sundry twigs in its wake.
But one day 1t thwarted him. He hit
the trunk square in the middle and the
ball bounced down in the eighth fair
way, where he had nothing more than
about 100 trees to get through to get
back on his own fairway.
Some day a golfer is going to knock a
ball into an empty milk bottle and then
what will he do?
And speaking of long wsllops from
the tee, it seems that out at Congress