Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE
BY WAITER R. McCALLUM-

! purposes addition of the two strokes
| will De best, Norman believes.
Carl J. Quentell is the hero of the
first hole-in-one episode Of the year ct
| the Columbia Country Club. Quentell
scored the ace on the seventeenth q
! few days ago, playing with H. King
! Cornwell. The hole is being played to
a temporary green about $50 YARDS
from the tee.
Never give up a golf match because
! you are a few holes down." How true
| it is Miller B. STEVENSON and Robert
Dalgleish now know. STEVENSON and
Dalgleish were playing against w. Carl
ton Evans and M. 0. Davis at Columbia,
and when the foursome reached the
turn Evans and Davis were up
STEVENSON warned Dalgleish that he was
about to start going from there, dug
his spikes into the turf of the tenth
tee. cracked his heels together on the
putting green and won the hole with a
birdie 8. That started the procession,
and STEVENSON and Dalgleish wound up
the nine with q best ball Of 80 to
square the match.
From Congressional comes a yarn
which illustrates the fact that hole
never is won until the last putt is in
the cup. Capt. w F. Smith Of Havana,
Cuba, was playing with Maj. G. A. Ben
nett against A. j. Walker and v. A.
Sisler. On the eighth hole Walker and
SiSler were / UP and thought they had
the out nine all folded up At the
eighth Smith put his second shot in
the. big bunker In front Of the green
and then played out into the left hand
trap. from which apparently the best he
could get was 6. But Smith fooled
EN-. Carefully taking his stance, he
knocked the ball into the cup for q
birdie 4, winning the hole.
Much the same thing happened a
few days ago at washington, where
Dorie G. Gruver sliced a Wild tee shot
onto the hill opposite the ninth green
and apparently would do very well to
get par 3. Instead Of that he knocked
the ball into the hole for birdie 2,
causing Calvert Dickey to again remark:
1T isn't his golf strokes that you have
to beat. It is that spirit Of optimism"
Rice's "Ripsnorters, captained by
DR.. Thomas j. Rice must give DR.. T.
D. Webb's "whixzbangs" q dinner be-
cause they lost a bowling match last
Thursday night. The six members Of
the two teams all play golf at the
Washington Golf and Country Club and
all have been bowling together for the
past two winters. Webb's team consists
OF himself, as captain; D. c. Gruver and
w. r. Little. The "Ripsnorters" are
Rice, captain; DR.. 3. s. Taylor and
Henry TAFT Rodier.
Ross Caldwell played one Of those
desperate shots the other day ct Wash
ington that resulted in q win when
things looked black for his side. Cald-
well and his partner both had missed
their tee shots on the seventeenth,
where they stood up, while DR.. B. 8.
Taylor, one Of their opponents, he'd
poled out beauty far over the hill
where a mashie shot would put the ball
on the green. Caldwell didn't know
what to do. He was so far back that
he thought he couldn't make the green
and had almost decided to play safe.
His partner advised him to tee the ball
on a wooden tee (which is requested at
Washington and smite 1t for the
green. He took q whack at it and 1t
came of with such skill that IL carried
high over the trees and ended six feet
from the hole. Taylor put his second
shot in q bunker and Caldwell won
the hole.