Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-04
By WALTER n. MccALLUM.

nI WALTER n. McCALLDM.
TF ever there comes time when
there Is such thing held as
golf championship Of ofIicialdesn in
Uncle Sans corTe Or Government
executives, we have d nomination or
TIVE who might pass any senAtsgl4ls
ny as men competent to uphold the
dignity Of CUR Government iA-xst1l1rnk=
ment with any swinger of driver or
mashie. Listed amena the Senators are
several competent golfers, but when 1t
comes down to real facts, the record
seems to show that the best scorers
among the eflcial family of Uncle Sam
come frem the executive branch. rather
than the legislative branch.
Senator Pat Harrison Of Mississippi Is
no ones set-up on any golf course.
At Burning Tree, where he usually
plays when In Washington, he has
knocked the ball around in better than
90 strokes on any number Of occasions,
and he Is good enough to play any
amateur about Washington who Il not
Of top rank an even game.
Displays His Caliber.
We remember in the Washington Golf
and Country Club tournament last
Spring how Harrison and Capt. Warren
j. Clear Of the Army met IN the nnal
Of enc Of the flights. FaCeti0usly they
agreed 10 play for more than the mere
prize that would go to the winner. Now
Clear IS better than an average golfer.
He usually scores around so st Wash
ington. which is winning golf In almost
any kind of company.
He and Harrison agreed to play for
a vote en- the Army pay bill when 1t
comes before the Senate next Winter.
II Harrison lost he was to vote favor
ably on the Army pay bill and II he
won, he was to think long time and
listen to the fervid pleas of his Senate
associates before he made up his mind.
Well. Clear was around the course IN
Is strokes, and at the end Of the match
Harrison had three-foot putt on the
eighteenth hole 10 square the match.
He missed 1t, and got 70, which Is
ample testimony to his golf
But in the executive branch Of the
Government there are two golfers in
high of1icial posts who can carry on
for Uncle Sam In first-claSs fashion.
They are Attorney General William d.
Mitchell and j. Raymond McCaTl, the
man VINO SITS on the purse &brInSS Oh
our national uncle's Treasury Mitchell,
who also plays at Burning Tree, is
ranked as enc of the best Of the Of
fetal golfers Of the land, and Is able
to break so.
Over at Congressional. however, Nc
Carl has just set mark that will be
something for any Government eflcial
to shoot at. McCarl. who plays only
seldom, and usually late in the after
noon and on week ends. has been play
ing with Sandy Armour. the Congress
sional pro. for several years. and the
other day came the fruit of all the
good golf he had absorbed from
Armour.
McCarI Carriers ~.
McCarl was over the long and hard
Congressional layout in n strokes,
which Is enc ever par and Is good
enough 10 give him. for the time being
the top position among President
Hoover's official Rolfing family.
He was playing In f0ur-ban match
with J. r. Murphy. Armour and John
r. Gilmore and the latter, who has
not played golf for several months,
knocked the ball around IN 10 strokes.
McCarl's SO on the first nine holes
Is q faae hit OF golf for any man, be
he amateur or pro. for par on the hrst
nine holes Is 81. Here b his score, with
par for the course: