Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-23
Straight OFF the Tee
BY WALTER r. McCALLuns.

THESE few days Of sprinElike
weather Of the past week have
found the Capital clan falling
for the golf racket In great
numbers and not suffering . little bit
from the lengthy lay-oR caused by the
bad weather which stretched from
early in January to beyond the middle
Of February.
The courses are soggy and soft and
the putting green's are bumpy, but the
golfers are so happy to get out to play
sans a couple of sweaters and a wind
breaker that even the unconditional
courses look good to them. And the
scoring Is far from bad, for par has
neen Knocked for . loop by at least
TWO players during the past week.
Miller B. Stevenson, the affable and
popular District champion, who seems
to have the knack Of keeping his galne
going without practice, has had q
couple Of remarkable scores during the
week, registering SO over the Columbia
course on Thursday, following q 70 over
the same layout Wednesday. Albert
z. Mackenzie, j. B. Murphy, z. B.
Eynon, jr., and Fred Mcleod bought
tne 6S, while Stevinson's 70 was pur-
chased by Murphy and Mcleod.
Murphy himself had a "a.
Sandy Armour, the Congressional pro
shattered the par for his home course
by two strokes last Thursday In A
game with Page Hufty. Armour missed
two or three holeable puts In his round
or IL, but he more than made up for
the misses by holing a flock of lengthy
puts. Hufty said Spark Plug !"
Sanoys eiongated aluminium putter, was
At all the other local courses the
golfers have been out in great num-
pers. Washington, which usually is in
1ne condition in the Spring, has had a
large quota OF mashie singers Training
over It's rolling layout, thankful for the
weather which finally has made golf
available to them after such q lengthy
enforced lay-oh. And incidentally
committee is authority for the state
ment that there will be no radical
course changes during the early sea-
son, such as were talked of last Fall
AT that time it was proposed that
the seventh green be rebuilt ana the
ditch at the left Of the seventeenth
hole be rooted over near the bend
Wnere the second shot usually is PLAYED
Nelther OF these changes are In pros
pect for the early part of 1890 nr
McClenahan says, and the Washington
course will be played this year az IL
was played last year. The onlv rnaior
change on the Virginia layout has been
widening Of the fairway at the seven
teenth by filling in the ditch between
the seventeenth and fifteenth fairways.
large group of Washington golfers
today are playing over the course of the
Princess Anne Country Club, at VIRGINIA
Beach. Something like so PLAYERS from
the Capital left Washington by boat
Friday night and will return tomorrow
morning. A few of those who are on
the trip are Or. j. T. McClenahan, ..
M. Willis, Paul v. Keyser, r. J. Nor
man. K. Q. Hunt, Harry D. eastman
Z. b. LOCKER and william Throckmor-
ton of Washington; Richard P. David
son, Henry Ravenel and Robert Stead
tr., Of Chevy Chase; w. D. Steele, r. b.
King and c. T. Day.
Many Of the local golf professionals
attended dinner last Monday night at
the Lord Baltimore Hotel and discussed
the tournaments to be staged by the
Middle Atlantic Professional Golfers
Assoclatlon during 1880. Warner Mather
OF Baltimore will be president of the
association during 1880.
CIaggett Stevens, who used to be
Iony Sylvester's clubmaker at Bannock-
burn, Is to go to Congressional as club
maker and assistant professional about
March is. A brother Of Stevens is as
sistant pro and clubmaker at the Manor
Club.
Gene Larkin, assistant pro at Chevy
Chase, who now is at the Highland
Park Golf Club, Lake Wales, Fla, prac-
tlceS every day and ID working himself
into good condition to retain his Mary-
land State open championship, accord
ing to Bob Barnett, the Chevy Chase
Club pro who hears from Larkin every
few days. Larkin and Elwood Poore,
another Chevy Chase pro, left Wash
ington for Lake Wales shortly after
Christmas and will remain In Florida
until late In March