Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-07
BY WALTER R. MccALLUM.

~ 2 all the weird bits OF golf that
have been shot in and over
the bunkered areas near the
National Capital Archie Clark,
the assistant pro at the Congressional
Country Club has just scored the weird
est round. And we don't eliminate the
So shot by Tommy Armour three years
ago over the Congressional layout, nor
the 90 made by Leo Diegel on the last
nine at Columbia few years back.
Clark is a Southern youngster who
came TO Congressional three or four
years ago. He quickly picked up the
essential points of Tommy Armour's
style, and of late has been going great
guns. Just the other day he played
The Congressional course in 70 strokes
and II Of the holes were played in per
feet f1gures-that is, his ball was on the
green in the regulation number of
strokes and he took the number of
puts called for by the card. He took
a on the fifth hole, his only lapse
above par.
But that round had nothing to do
with the weird last nine he tore of
while Jimmy Maloney watched in pop
eyed establishment at the bizarre as
sortment Of eagles, brides and holes
above par In the first place, Archie
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short space of nine holes. In the Sec
ond place he didn't play single hole
of the nine in par. And yet he scored
36, which is exactly par for that half
of the Congressional layout. Had he
scored par on the fourteenth and six
tenth holes he would have been over
the nine in % strokes. On all the 9TH
ers he was better than par.
Here is his card:
Par ........... 6 $ 4434
Clark . 4 IL 6 8 9 3 3-36
On the tenth hole, 6l0 yards, Clark
scored an eagle 4 by the simple ex-
pedient of holing 10-footer He holed
a 15-footer for a deuce on the eleventh
And at the long twelfth, more than 500
yards in length, he crashed two fine
woodan-club shots to the green and
had another putt for an eagle, which
he did not hole. His birdie came easy,
however. He scored his fourth con-
thirteenth, where 10-footer slipped
into the cup.
But an end must come to all good
things. At the fourteenth, which is the
identical hole where Tommy Armour
took in his record breaking round
of SO. Clark took q by pushing his
second shot into a bunker But he
quickly erased this mistake by Loling
an 8-footer for birdie 3 at the par
fifteenth.
Now the sixteenth hole at Congress
SIGNAL is, in many ways, the easiest par
3 hole around Washington. 1t plays
just about 135 yards in length, but the
green is hardly bigger than the top of
your kitchen table and Is surrounded
on three sides by ugly bunkers. Here
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half trying. And Clark took to this
hole. His mashie niblick tee shot fell
in bunker ct the right side of the
green on the down slope Of the sand.
He got the ball clean and 1t whisked
away over the fence out of bounds. He
dropped a ball in the sand and that
one, too, went out of bounds.
He finally reached the green in seven
strokes and was down in two puts for
a nine. Now, with all the sub-par Scor-
ing he had done prior to the sixteenth
he should have been well below par
But he was not That nine shot MS
score up to two above par.
A looming tee shot cracked out from
She seventeenth tee and Archie pitched
the bah close enough to get 1t down for
bird 3. And at the eighteenth he
drove hole-high to the right and pitch
ed close enough to hole the putt for
another bird 3 on this 260-yard hole, to
wind up the weirdest nine-hole stretch
of golf that ever has been recorded
around Washington probably the
weirdest that ever has been played on
any stretch of golflng country. If you
have heard of anything like it. let us
know Certainly there has been no nine
quite so unorthodox in the annals Of
golf about washington until Clark
threw 1T and played that one.
Professional golfers Of the Middle
Atlantic area are to play next Monday
in a pro-pro best bah match over the
course Of the Burning Tree Club.
A special handicap tourney for the
Sears, Roebuck trophy will be played
on Sunday at the Beaver Dam Country
Club The cup must be won twice for
permanent possession. H r. De Vilbiss
Won the initial tourney for the trophy
lest Saturday.
Archie Clark shot a73 yesterday to
enable the team OF Jimmy Maloi1ey and
Clark from Congressional to beat Dave
Thomson the Washington pro, and Don
r. Dougherty. Washington amateur, in
a match over tbs Washington course
Thomson. who hopes soon to shatter the
course record Of SIS. took rs yesterday.
In order to speed up play on crowded