Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26

NRED MCLEOD, the Columbia
r. pro. who went to California to
play in the P. G. A. champion
ship and has played In several
Of the big open Journeys on the Pa
cific Coast, intends to travel East with
the professional group and win play
70 the Texas tournaments. according
20 word received here. The $4,000 Fl
Paso open at Fl Paso. Tex, win start
She Texas season this week, and will
De followed by the San Antonio open,
Shich has prize money totaling $500
Or the pros who finish well up. The
Boys have had a rich feast out in
California, where they played in tour
naments whose prize money totaled
oGnetl1ing like $4,000. Gene sarazen
plAcked the biggest plum of them all
- Thursday, when he registered a
- in the final round of the Aqua
G4liente tourney to win by two shots.
24ie parallel between Genes winning
G4ort at Aqua Caliente and his squirt
% win the national open at Skokie
In 1922 is too close to miss. On both
= occasions he was several shots back
going into the last round, and In both
Journeys he registered q 90 on the
last round to cop the event. Sara
Gems usual Winter habitat Is at Miami,
Fla, but this year, under special pres
sure, he went to Lower Mexico to play
IN the Aqua Caliente event.
Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase says he
mas received a Letter from Gene Larkin,
his assistant, who is at Highland Park,
Ila., In which Gene prays for bad
weather in the North so the golfers
will go to Florida. Gene left WASH
41ngton shortly after Christmas with
Elwood Poore, another of Barnett's as
sistants, acting as aide to the Mary
land open champion in his Florida
berth. Nowadays little Danny Burton,
erstwhile caddie and Harry Pitts for
mer bag-toter, Is acting in PORES
place In the Chevy Chase golf shop.
Danny used to be a little lad, hardly
bigger than the bags he ugged around,
but now he has sprung I'D into quite
sizeable youngster. Poore wears a
number 10 shoe, and not long ago
Danny tried on one Of PORES shoes.
He got it on all right, but remarked that
It pinched him, and he needed q big
ger footgear. Considering that Poore
stands 8 feet, 2 inches in height, and
that Danny Is only II years old, 1t
Is reasonable to assume he will be
quite lad when he gets his full
stature.
Out at Washington, where the hflls
which dot this fine course are being
used by youngsters on sleds instead OF
golfers with the urge for knocking a
white ball around, Dave Thomson has
ystarted something by sinking a small
hole into the concrete floor Of the golf
shop. Like the hallway golf game of
last Winter, which was finally ordered
closed because 1t interfered with the
use Of the passageway, the game has
intrigued the attention Of many Of the
members and almost any day now a
group of golfers may be found In
Thonson's shop attempting to putt a
ball over rubber carpet and slippery
concrete floor into hole that is bare
1y larger than the ball itself.
Charles B. Stewart nearly broke up
O perfectly good game of putting the
other day by holing an ace for a pot
full of change that had accumulated
IS result Of several carry-oyer syndi-
Gates. Stewards ace was the first re-
corded on Thomson'S little putting
laboratory, and v. G. Dickey and DR..
A. L. Bou were the other contributors.
The game calls for q steady hand and
Q gentle touch, as the surface Is smooth
and the cup small.
Course maintenance work on the
local golf links has been stopped by the
snow, which now has lain on the
ground for more than q week Snow
forces q vacation for greenkeepers and
course maintenance men, but redoubles
their work when the snow begins TO
melt, for they must keep drains free
from clogging and maintain the course
+; IN such shape that the melting snow
WIN not undo some Of their work.