Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
MAT seventeenth hole at Wash
ington Golf and Country Club
may be a nuisance to some

"NHAT seventeenth mole az WASH
tngton Golf and Country Club
may be a nuisance to some
people, but Harry D. eastman
has the Indian sign on it. It's q par
4, but to eastman it is a hole he Will
always remember as the one on which
he scored an eagle 2.
Every golfer around washington
knows that fearsome hole, where the
ground slopes down from the right into
a deep ditch, and with ground condi-
lions as they now are, there Is little
chance for a ball to stay out OF the
ditch unless 1t is hit far to the right.
Well, eastman stepped up to his ball
the other day on the seventeenth tee
with the dilettante air ne sometimes
assumes when he faces q particularly
difficult shot. You can almost hear
Harry saying something like this: Now.
little bali, you and have been having
a hard time of it around this golf
course. We've been in all sorts OF
trouble together and 1 haven't mis-
treated you In fact have been rather
good to you. If I have SCARED your
glistening sides. that was because you
mistreated me by going IN ditch or
a bunker. But all that nonsense Is
over now. Let's get together on the
last lap Of this mutual journey OF ours
and show these other golf balls that
cooperation is the thing that gets re-
suits How about 1t, little golf ball?"
You can almost hear Harry say IT.,
as he pats that ball with loving care
and soiicitude. That's the kind of fell
low Harry is. Anything he does he does
with the nice flair for the fine things
of life-even hitting a golf ball. Nothing
crude and rude about Harry. He hits
golf ball as if he wanted cooperation
from the ball.
Ball Finally Responded.
Well. on that historic swing. Harry
and the golf ball didn't get together at
all. He apparently had spoken his little
piece to the ball, but 1t misunderstood
him-for part of its journey at any
rate. For the ball was hit truly, but
oh, so far off the line It leaped off
at an angle leading directly toward the
corner Of the ditch and Jimmy
Corcoran would have laid bet Of 100
to ! right then and there that that ball
would be found deep down in the ditch.
But somewhere in its flight 1t must
have recalled Harry's soothing words,
IOT rs IL SGIuCh Vic SAOuliu ~ plOhCO
out hard spot to hit, took fast right
hand kick and instead of going in the
ditch, landed clean down in the rough,
where the ditch bends around, giving
Harry q clear shot at the green.
History does not record what soothing
words Harry spoke to that pill, how he
caressed 1t with his club, or just what
the tenor Of his remarks were. But they
met q sympathetic response from the
ball, for It went plumb in the hole for
an eagle 2-the first eagle Harry has
scored In many moons, and the first
| time in months mashie shot has been
holed for q deuce on that seventeenth;
Comdr. G. T. (Ted) LyneS and Ward
B. Mccarthy witnessed the shot.
DUT there are other sides TO this golf
| - ing picture. Out at Washington
there Is a gent named v. G. Dickey
who has been taking the boys over the
| Jumps so long and so consistently with
the accuracy Of well balanced game
that when he gets q 4 on the long
fifteenth hole he expects to win it
Yesterday he played in four-bal
| opponent There were others In the
game, but the main battle lay between
these two. Well, Gruver was Just Q
hot golfer for the entire distance. He
made q few bad shots-only o few
and was around In 70 strokes. Hi
card included three IS on par holes
80 you can see he might have beer
below 20. And he finished with brace
Of IS, missing short puts on the las
two green's.
At the fifteenth he dashed out o fine
tee shot and Dickey knocked out hi,
customary slice well down the middle
Gruver put spoon shot straight on the