Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-07

n yOT long ago Arthur s. Mat.
nj tingly, the golfer with the
" short arms and the 48-incf
wooden clubs, thought he wa,
not getting the distance he should gel
from the tee, even with those lengthy
fails he devised year or so back
And so he ordered a set Of clubs from
Freddie Mcleod, the Columbia Country
Club professional.
Freddie sent in the order through
the firm whose clubs Mattingly had
specified he wanted, with the injunc-
ton that he wanted them lust like
Scott Appleby's clubs" And the other
notified that his clubs awaited him In
the golf shop at Columbia and he jour-
neyed down 10 open the package and
inspect his new weapons.
They were unwrapped, and Matt
took one in hand, longingly looking for
ward tn the day when he would surprise
|his gol1ing crowd with the distance and
direction of his tee shots. But some
thing went wrong somewhere along. the
Fine. FOR the clubs were left-handed
hffatrs, and Mattingly is a right
hanGed golfer, They finally figured out
that when he specified clubs like
kpplehy's the order got mixed 10 and
they gave him Clubs like those of his
Friend, who is a southpaw.
Now. Nattingly has had to return to
hose fishrole-Shafted clubs and is wait
,ig for the order to be filled witk clubs
1htch can be swung from the orthodox
tde with some hope of hitting the ball.
A couple OF years ago Mattingly, who
lhS played golf longer than most men
tfre to remember, and is one of the
CID guard at the Columbia Country
Cub who played at its predecessor
tie Columbia Golf Club-got ali idea
{ bat he was not getting the distance he
thought he should get from the tee.
Ef figured and reasoned and discovered
THAT he had unusually short arms for
al man Of his height. And Matt" is
a tall man. Further reasoning con-
Y hce6 him that the length of the arc
Oh golf swing Is one of the main rea-
Sttns for making the ball go great dis
tiHces. And he continued reasoning
a Png this line with the result that
hi discovered the arch of his swing
die TO his short arms-was not long
eriough.
$50 to overcome this physical handi-
cdp he had the shafts of all his clubs
heightened and heightened until he
finally was welding driver with a
shaft measuring AZ inches in length,
where the ordinary driver has a shaft
about ~ inches in length. It helped
his game for a time, and then he began
losing accuracy. But Matt" Is not
easily discouraged. and he found that
Scott Appleby had a set of clubs which
he used with considerable skill.
Mattingly picked them up and found
them Unnd cnf il1a
But somewhere along the line some one
slipped and they sent him a set of left
handed clubs. Now he Is awaiting the
results of the latest order, and is kid
ding" Fred Mcleod, who probably Is
not TO blame at all.
Luther Florine, the southpaw golfer,
who used to belong to Beaver Dam
and Bannockburn, is the winner of the
18-hole blind handicap tourney at
Rock Greek Park. F1orine shot card
of 33-37-70, and when he opened
up the handicap envelope he had
drawn before he went out, he found a
handicap Of Is strokes had been as
signed him. With this impost, and a
gross 10 behind him, Florine breezed
into first place with a net of 81.
AL Price, the professional at Rock
Creek Park, was a bit luckier than
Florine, however, and drew handicap
of Is strokes. Al took 70 for the round,
however. to finish stroke higher than
the southpaw.
Here are the other leading scores in
the tourney:
William Bissell. 75-15-60; John A.
Johnson, 73-8-65; D. r. Particle,
A. H. williams, 72-5-67;
j. F. Hauser, 77-8-69; Arthur Urban,
75-5-70; E. T. Rice, 74-3-71; Mike
Oliveri, 77-6-71; Jennings Nealis,
Down at East Potomac Park a cup
has been put up by one of the Wash
ington automobile firms to be played
for early In September. This tourney
also will be a blind affair, with the
entrants to draw handicaps in a sealed
envelope, not to be opened until they
have finished their round. The tourney