Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-14
GAMES PLEASURE
HELPED BY THEM
Plan for a Senior Tourney
Here Next Year Meets
With Enthusiasm.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

T AVE you ever thought, Mr..
r. Golf Club Member, on how
L i smoothly the affairs Of
your golf shop are run and
how much of the credit for that
smooth operation and your handi-
Gaping and even the arranging
of matches for you and your fell
low members should go to your
club professional and his aides?
Naturally every club professional Is
q competent man, with thorough I'M
derstanding of golf and the golf shop
But his assistants are also competent,
usually youngsters just getting ahead in
the game and trying every minute to
see that affairs function smoothly in
the golf shop.
The clubs about the Capital are par
ticularly fortunate In having a fine
group Of golf professionals and an up
and-coming group of assistants. Who.
for instance, could replace Darcy
Banagan at Columbia? Or Brick Wood
at Washington? Or Archie Clark at
Congressional? Or George Diffenbaugh
at Indian Spring. Or Gene Larkin and
Bill Hard at Chevy Chase?
Banagan Is Valuable Fixture.
Banagan Is as much a fixture at Co
Iumbia as Freddie Mcleod, the beloved
mentor Of the Columbia Club, who has
held down that post for 10 years.
Banagan even antedates his boss at
Columbia, for the big red-head carried
golf bags around the Columbia layout
while Freddie Mcleod was at st. Louis,
before he came to Columbia. How
highly Red" is regarded at Columbia
was evidenced q few years back when
show their appreciation of the services
of Banagan, got together and gave him
o purse of more than q thousand dollars.
Banagan Is not alone an assistant
professional. He Is virtually the club
Handicapped, q friend to every member
and the gent who arbitrateS all disputes.
And as for loyalty to Columbia, no man
ever was more loyal to his country than
Banagan is to the club he loves. On
his tongues tip is the handicap of every
member Of the club, and he can tell
you almost to the stroke how each
member of the club will play. He Is
little less than q golf marvel, and Fred
Mcleod appreciates him, too. Colum-
bias golf shop would not move along
half so smoothly without Banagan.
Knows Members Like Book.
Over at Washington, Brick Wood pre-
sides In the starters house as caddie-
master, assistant pro and starter. Brick
Is another Of those lads who knows the
games Of his members like a book.
Many matches come out on the first tee
with some doubt in the minds Of the
members as - how the pairings should
be made and what handicap should be
given, If any Naturally they ask Wood.
And IL fe q Y1aattar If rarOYd that prinkpR
recommendation has not been turned
down and that he is always fair to both
sides. The members have the most
implicit faith in Bricks Judgment,
knowing he will not be swayed by per-
sonal likes and dislikes. And, like
Banagan at Columbia, Wood Is always
on the lookout for some member who
Is without q game, looking for q spot
into which he can be placed, making
Is the go-between for the best interests
Of the club and the game. But Banagan
and Wood are not alone.
Over at Indian Spring George Diff
fenbaugh has the same knowledge and
the same ability at mixing that the
others have. So has Archie Clark at
Congressional, and 50 have Gene Lar
kin and Bill Hardy at Chevy Chase.
These boys make your golf and mine
erwise be- II you don't believe 1t, take
. whirl at the public links some day,
where that personal touch Is missing,
Il you are not known.
Walked over the property Of the
etrathmeade Corporation the other day
with Denton, the man from Michigan
who Is building the golf course, and
found the country over which three
nine hole courses are being built just
about ideal for golf. and the holes
which Denton Is laying out are thor
oughly modern in every way. James
A. White. who used to be an oficer of
the Bannockburn Club and now is con-
nected with the Strathmeade outfit, as
sures us that our early ideas about
Strathmeade were all wrong Jimmy
is authority for the statement that the
golf club, when 1t is built, will be as
private as any other club about Wash
tngton, and that membership in it will
Be limited to those who own homes
nearby. Eighteen Of the ~ holes will
b ready for play next Fall, all with
wetered fairwayS, and the entire ~
holes viii be completed by 1888. The
property lies about three miles west of
Falls Church in Virginia, near the Lee
Highway, between Falls Church and
Fairfax
Henry D. Miller, pro at the Beaver
Dam Country Club, has taken charge of
the L'Aiglon pitching and putting in
door course at Eighteenth street and
Columbia road and is planning to run
on series Of Sunday sweepstake COM
petitions for the golfers who find the
outdoor courses bit too breezy and
cold. Three prizes will be presented 70
the winning golfers each Sunday. In
addition prizes will be given each week
Tor the leading scorers Of both sexes.
Bob Barnett, the Chevy Chase pro,
and George Difenbeugh, assistant at
Indian Spring. are planning TO leave
the Capital next Thursday for Miami
Beach. Fla, where they will act as pro-
fessionals at the Indian Greek Colt
Club during the Winter. They will be
Joined later by Ralph Beach, pro at the
Suburban Club of Baltimore. Gene
Larkin and Elwood Poore of Chevy
Chase are TO go later In the month TO
Lake Wales, Fla. where they were To-
Gated last Winter.
An enterprising cigarette manufac-
turing concern started something In the
way OF free advertising last week by
oepositing with each local professional
some 5000 cigarettes, put UP in boxes
Of 80. one box TO go to the member who
made q birdie, or q box for each birdie.
Over at Washington there were 80
many brides made that within SO hours
all the cigarettes were gone, which
means that there were so brides made
n two days Of golf. One member got
hve in two days, and was richer by 25o
cigarettes.
The plan Of the District Golf Asso-
citation to hold senior golf tournament
nekt year, limited to members of clubs
who have reached the age OF SIS, has
met with enthusiastic response among