Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-16
v YHEN is an ace in golf not an
v v Yelverton E. Booker, ardent
golfer of the WASHINGTON

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Yelverton z. Booker, ardent
golfer of the Washington
Golf and Country Club, knows when an
ace Is not an ace, but he isn't Dragging
about the one he got the other day on
the second hole at Washington, a hole
which plays a distance of about $50
yards from the middle Of the front tee.
Bent on finding out why his mashie
shots went everywhere but the right
direction and distance, Booker got him.
self bag of balls and repaired toward
the first green, where he spent some
time chipping and playing short pitches
to the hole. Then he took the balls
and moved on down toward the second
tee. Now that second hole at Wash
ington is quite a tricky affair, and many
q better golfer than Booker has his
troubles with the hole. But Booker had
figured out that little practice on this
hole would do him no harm, SO he teed
up his Is golf balls and calmly and
smoothly smote them toward the distant
pin. He did not have such good luck
for ball after ball rose in the air. ana
vanished at the end of It's flight into
a yawning trap or ,skittered down the
hill to the left of the green.
Fourteen of them did just that, and
the green was shy OF golf balls. Nary
golf ball glimmered white against
the green surface of that putting green
$50 yards away. so" said Booker, who
used to be newspaper man, you
think it can't be done. en-" Gritting
his teeth and graSping his mashie in
mock anger. he concentrated heavily
on that fifteenth ball and hit it truly
and firmly. 1t arched high in the air,
hit the edge of the green, took one long
hop, a couple of bounces and settled
firmly in the hole for an ace. Booker
didn't practice any more.
He picked up his marbles and
wandered back to the club house,
balls act like they do. What makes
the doggoned things act so contrary?"
said Booker. And why couldn't that
have been the first ball that went into
the hole, so / might have had real
ace? Did make an ace, or did make
Is, or what is it all about anyhow"
ENTRIES for the annual invitation
IL tourney of the Maryland Country
Club. which closed yesterday. will
find more than half hundred Wash
ingtonianS playing in the big Summer
event of the Baltimore club, according
to a canvass of the entries from clubs
about the Capital. The Manor Club
alone has sent in more than a score of
entries, while dozen or more will play
from Washington, an equal number
from Columbia, and quite number
from Indian Spring. Most of the eight
contestants from Washington in the
qualifying round for the national anna,
teur championship have decided to
forego the tourney and will go to Rich
mond either on Sunday, July 26. or
Monday, July 81, to practice in advance
of the medal round. They feel that
tournament Immediately in advance of
two testing rounds of medal play Of golf
would be little too much.
MO one ever accused Hugh H. Saum
IN Of Columbia of being a dumbbell
Tired of listening to the endless
arguments about the merits or dement's
Of the new ball. Saum has adopted tao
tics which defeat argument at its very
inception. Here is how he does IT. John
Bogey approaches him and says
"Hughie, how do you like the new ball?"
Saum shifts his cigar around, looks
serious. appear to cogitate. and finally
says, We'll. John, how do you like it?"
That usually stumps John, who
answers as he feels, either that he
likes it or that he can't do thing with
1t. well" says Saum. that's just the
way I feel about it. agree with you