Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-07
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE
by W. r. McCALLUM-

will be played September 2, 3, and 5.
| Tommy Webb, the stalwart Western
High School lad who plays at Washing
| ton and is one of the outstanding
| favorites for the District junior cham
nionship to be played over the Wash
| ington course on September 2, picked
nm two brides yesterday over the last
nine holes of his home course, end
breezed home in SO strokes, two under
par. Tommy was out in 80, with two
balls out OF bounds.
Faced with the possibility of continu-
ance of the drought, with its corollary
of burned out fairways and the further
possibility that water for the putting
Greens may be seriously curtailed,
authorities of the Bannockburn Golf
Club Yesterday considered postpone
ment of the annual Fall invitation
tourney. scheduled for September 1913,
inclusive. After some consideration of
weighing the possibility of rain before
the tourney, the golf committee decided
to 90 ahead with plans already drawn,
and the tourney will be held as
The committee, consisting of w. Fred
Byrne, chairman; j. w. McKeever,
w. L. Pendergast, Norman J. Hall, John
]. McInerney, Larry w. Moore and DR..
T. ]. w. Brown, will proceed with plans
thev have had outlined for several
weeks. A proposal to pump water for
the putting green's from Cabin John
Greek was abandoned, because of the
almost prohibitive cost.
Perhaps the committee does not
&now that the flow of water at Cabin
John Greek, even if the entire volume
of creek water was pumped to the
Bannockburn course, would be less than
90 gallons a minute. The creek bed is
almost dry and the water flowing in it
would be far less than the course needs
to save the putting green's.
At practically all the courses about
washington the winter rules" sign has
been brought out of moth balls and
placed in a prominent position at the
first tee in an attempt to save what
ever grass the drought has not
burned up.
Meanwhile the hard condition of the
fairways is enabling some of the long
hitters to set all time records for the
distance which golf ball may be
driven. At Indian Spring about $50
yards from the tee there is a little loop
of green grass at the left side of the
fairway. DR.. E. r. Tilley drove his ball
into that loop a few days ago in a
four-ball game composed of himself,
J. Monro Hunter, DR.. l.. s. Otell and
j. w. Harvey, jr.
Even though I had driven $50 yards"
Tilley said, II had to play my second
shot first. Those big hitters had all
driven past me-"
In the same game Hunter drove
within few yards of the bunker guard
ing the green at the twelfth hole. His
ball stopped exactly 10 PAGES from the
bunker, which Is 800 yards from the
tee, and he had short mashie niblick
shot to the green. He also drove within
five yards of the bunker at the left
and short of the seventh green, which
is more than 400 yards from the tee.
From the back tee Hunter now takes
crack at the thirteenth green. hoping
his ball will jump the bunker in front
of the green and run up to give him q
putt. Normally the hole Is a drive
and pitch hole.
The first green at Washington-305
yards from the tee-is being driven
these days by the long hitters of the
club, and at least one of them-Charles
Evans-has been over. Dave Thomson,
the club pro, has driven the fifth green
several times, and Dorie Gruver was on
the fifth green three times in q row.
This hole measures 800 yards, and the
tee shot is blind.
The long fourth hole, which normally
is hard par 5, now has become. a
drive and an iron shot for the boys who
sock em far and wide from the tee, and
at the fifteenth many players are using
spoons from the tee to avoid everyday
ing the fairway into the rough beyond.