Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-11


putt with laugh, or the shot
that evokes what the boys call
Bronx cheer? If you haven't you have
not stood on the eleventh green at
Burning Tree and modestly predicted
you would make a down hill 15-foot
putt.
Over near the eleventh tee at Burn
ing Tree is farm house, with all the
usual props that go along with farm
houses, such as chicken coops, a barn
yard and an apple grove. But this
farmstead is unusual in that it sup
ports a flock of sheep. And one of
these sheep is the humorous guy who
perpetrates the Bronx vocal salute
whenever any one puts his neck out
SO far as to admit he is a good putter.
Ray J. Norman, chairman of the
Washington Golf and Country Club
Golf Committee, went over to Burning
Tree 10 play golf, accompanied by
Ralph S. Fowler George e. Elliott and
a guest from Texas named Sinclair.
Ray felt fairly cocky after getting
birdie on the long par 5 tenth hole
and when he put his tee shot on the
eleventh green with only a 15-foot
strip of sloping green between his ball
and the hole he burst forth into song
something like this: We'll, boys, here
comes that other birdie I've been wait
ing for. Who smokes those cigarettes?
Here it goes"
And then, just as If the act had been
carefully rehearsed, from the direction
Of the farmstead 100 yards away came
rollicking "ha-ha" Ray looked
around could not see any one around
but the members of his match, and
they were all immersed in the task of
lining up their own puts. Again he
stepped up to the ball, and again came
that deep "ha-ha." He stroked the
pill and missed the hole, according to
Fowler. by many, many inches. Then
he went searching for the cause of the
horse laugh, or sheep laugh, as 1t turned
out to be, and he saw over in the barn
yard a big ram with a droll expression
on his face laughing his sides out at
the confident assertion of any golfer
that he could hole a 15-foot down-hill
putt. And that, boys and girls, is the
origin of the "ha-ha" shot. But that
farmer would better insure that sheep.
Some irate golfer might heave putter
in his general direction some day after
the humorous animal has given him the
sheep laugh.
TLAGGETT STEVENS, aide to Sandy
~ Armour in the golf shop at Con-
gressional. is the latest youngster to
pull a miracle shot ever the Congress
SIGNAL course. Stevens. who halls from
Rockville end has become a fine club
maker under Armcur's tutelage, was 2
Gown with 2 to play to Archie Clark,
assistant pro at the club. He hit a good
ties shot at the seventeenth, and then
deity placed his second shot in the
bunker at the right side of the green.
Not a whit dismayed by this adverse
stroke of fortune he planted his No.
10 dogs down in the sand and neatly
knocked the ball into the cup for a
birdie 3, winning the hole from Clark,
who had played the hole in orthodox
fashion for a par 4. Then Claggett
proceeded to knock his second shot
about eight feet from the hole at the
eighteenth and hole the putt for a
winning birdie to square the match.
Arriving late at the Indian Spring
Club yesterday, because of an automo-
bile accident near Richmond, the Boston
College golf team played a tie match
with the club swingers of George Wash
ington, each team scoring points.
Here are the results:
John c. Shorey, G.. W. u, defeated
Gerard Moore, Boston, up; Charles