Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-29

TRANK K. ROESCH, the District
r amateur golf champion, stood on
the elevated first tee at the
Washington Golf and Country
Club, looked toward the green 800 yards
away, pondered over the possibility OF
knocking the ball into the bunkers that
fringe the fairway or behind the rock
pile that makes the back tee for the
second hole and extracted an iron from
his bag.
He had given the matter Of that first
hole some thought and decided that,
what with the hard ground and the
practical impos5ibility of driving the
green, he had better knock the ball
down the middle and have an even
chance for his par 4.
Alongside him stood little Davie
Thomson, the club pro, and the miracle
worker who seems to be able to 90
anythir with any kind of golf CLUB.
Davie watched Frank as he swung his
iron and knocked the ball down the
middle for about 220 yards.
Using an iron club. eh," Davie said
whats the matter? Are you little
bit afraid of that out-of-bounds, or are
YOU scared of knocking that ball over
in the ditch alongside the eighteenth
greene" :.
Frank grinned and looked at his ball
far down the middle. where he had a
little pitch to the green and nne
chance for 4.
alright" Davie said, 'if you feel that
way I'll take my putter. think can
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So Davie took his putter.
putt" and that ball was stroked
down there about 200 yards, plumb IN
| the middle of the fairway. Another
putt" and the ball was on the green
In two and another putt (this time a
real one) and the ball was in the hole
for a birdie 3. Frank Ginned and
to you" Davie said. Bet you can't do
it again" Frank replied, and so the
matter lay.
But Davie has done his stuff with the
| putter and the miracle worker OF WASH
! ington has cut another notch in the list
of impossible" things he accompl1shes
whenever he wishes.
THAT first hole at washington
l. measures 300 yards. or just shade
more, from the tee. But with the
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than q one shot hole for the long hitters
and the men who are not quite so long
The popularity of the hole is that
| If the ball hits on a certain sweet
spot down there at the right corner OF
the green It will roll up on the carpet
But II it hits on either side Of the right
spot. it may careen of behind the stone
wall at the left. or over into the bunker
at the right.
The upshot of the matter is that the
gents who play golf with their heads
as we'll as their clubs have been using
irons from the tee, despairing Of hitting
the right spot even though they can
drive as far as the green. We've seen
many men get on the green with a
spoon. and 1t is not at all uncommon
for the green to be driven nowadays.
Yesterday " Calvert Dickey, "the
man without a slice" and never long
hitter, was wisecracking about his tee
shots as he stood on the first tee with
Thorpe Drain as a partner against Dore
C.. Gruver and Dr. r. D. Webb.
Dickey souirmed himself around into
the proper position and let ny with such
wallop and such accuracy that the
ball went plump up there In the middle
of the green and he had putt for a
deuce. But Doc Webb, who had a
hot putting streak, gave Dickey plenty
to think about as he romped over the
fast course, knocking over FIVE brides
and scoring a II. even with two balls
: out of bound 1t was Webb's best game
Of the season and he and Gruver romped
away with Dickey and Drain, giving
them such a sound trouncing that Dick
ey was still talking about 1t today.