Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-25

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dark persuasion waited for customers
with the seductive appeal, Help you
across. Mister" We're good, strong
boys and we can carry you over without
any trouble" And they did. They
must have carried across that water
some two score people in the course OF
the day, at IS cents a head. Business
wasn't so bad-for them-and 1t helped
the course, for otherwise the fourth
hole could not be played.
Denny Hughes, former Georgetown
athlete, scored an eagle on the ninth
shot that was described by Leo Nc
Nerhany. pro of the club, as one of
the longest ever hit there. Hughes hit
a tee shot that went more than 375
yards, according to McNerhany, carry
ing the trees at the angle Of the fair
way. The hole is ABS yards in length
and Hughes was playing with D. A.
Roberts and George Wood. He scored
40 for the round-his best mark.
w. c. Balderston made ar ace on that
tantalizing eleventh hole at the Manor
Club yesterday, playing the shot with
q mashie across the water and watching
the ball disappear in the hole for /.
The hole is 125 yards long and Balder-
ston was playing with H. L. Stringer
and Ralph E. Jones.
The second round of play for the
Barry-Pate Cup at the Bannockburn
Golf Club was completed yesterday with
the following results: E. j. Doyle and
C. C. Heath defeated W. F. Byrne and
j. T. Mccarthy, up in 20 holes; S. w.
Reese and S. d. Gibson defeated r. l..
Burgdorf and e. c. Burgdorf, and l ::
v. r. Haig and B. Cameron defeated
L. C. Leigh and j. C. McKeever, 4 and
2; w. w. Mari and William Torrey de-
feated L. r. Pass and j. C. Hawley,
and 2; N. j. Hall and C. M. Charest
defeated r. C. Candlish and H. Har-
wood, and 2: H. G. Wood and T. T.
Moller defeated j. H. Byrne and j. j.
Goggia, S and 3.
0UT at Columbia the Greens Com
~ mittee is considering changes in
the green's at the ninth, tenth and
seventeenth holes. Changes are de-
clared to be necessary in these greens
because the contour of the putting sur
faces are such that much of the sur
face of each green is so much waste
space; in other words, the pin cannot
be placed in much of the green sur
face. Furthermore, the tenth and sew
enteenth are declared to be difficult to
keep in condition.
Remember when the ninth green at
Columbia was looked upon as a model
green and golf course experts came from
near and far to look at it, and admire
its putting surface? Ten years ago 1t
was such a green, but it has sunk In
the middle and now the places where
the pin can be placed are few. Fur
thermore, the green Is what is called a
skyline" green, which makes the play
to it more dif1icult than it would be If
it had a background to bring out the
distance it plays from the second shot.
DAvE THOMSON, the Washington
- Club professional, got back OF a
big tee shot at the eighth hole the
other day and put the ball nearly into
catch the second shot. Dawes ball must
have gone nearly 1926 yards, for the
hole is more than 400 yards in length.
He laid his second shot so close the
putt fof a was conceded. D. G. Gruver
drove hole high on the tenth hole last
week, his ball coming to rest at the
right side of the green, leaving him a
short chip shot to the green. He rec
ommends this method for playing the
tenth hole at Washington, for he
thereby avoided the dangerous pitch
over the bunker, with the possibility
that an overstrong shot may go out Of
bounds beyond the putting surface.
Y7HE roof over Dave Thomson's golf
L shop at the Washington Golf and
Country Club is being covered
with canvas, which is being painted
like the deck of ship to keep water
from dripping down into the golf shop
during heavy rains. John I. Power,
formerly chairman of the Washington
Club House Committee, flew down to
Washington from Philadelphia by air
plane last week, played round of golf,
and few back.
DOES your handicap show your true
- average game, or is it the result
Of q number of selected rounds of
your best game, which cannot be pro-
duced at your wish every time you
start? Jim Barnes, according to Fred
Mcleod. thinks every player has a
the case of amateurs, the mean level
is above the players handicap rating.
If your handicap is S against a par of
10 that would make you shoot IS every
time you start. But how many times
do you do 1t?
TN addition to the competition for the
i Barry-Pate Cup, which Is being
played today at Bannockburn, the
club members are playing in a special
Byrne of the Golf Committee the blind
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