Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-03
RICE, BONES LOOM
AS CLOSE RIVALS.
McAIeer and Curtiss Also
Fine Portside Golfers.
NJ. A. Title Staked.
BY WALTER R. MeCALLUM.

BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.
TINE southpaw golf tourna-
ment, which was a feature
l. Of the golf season of the
Indian Spring Golf Club in
1928 and 1929, and was Cancelled
last year, has been revived this
year by the present golf commit
tee Of the club, and propably will
be played on October 25.
The tournament will give the golf
ing wags of the city real chance to
evaluate the respective merits Of Sam
Rice, the ball-hawk of the Washing
ten Base Ball Clubs outheld, and
Tony Bones, the slugging southpaw
golfer Of Columbia, and If the base ball
writer's are right, the scores made in
the coming portsiders' golf tournament
will be weird and wonderful to behold.
The gents who sit safely esconced be-
hind a wire screen at the base ball
stadia Of the Nation, and wise up the
base ball bugs On the merits or de-
merits Of the players who cavort on
the diamond below them have set forth
for years that all southpaws, particular
ly pitchers, are more or less balmy
They have coddled this fiction so long
that they almost believe it themselves,
but whether or not it applies to golf no
one yet has been able to find out.
Harry G, Pitt and Al Treder Of Manor
think that possibly the fiction NAV
have some basis In fact after looking
at the eagle Tommy Bones shot at
them the other day at Manor 10 win
close golf match on the ninth green.
but the statement that all southpaWs
are slightly askew never has been
proven.
THERE are four fine golfers in
l. Washington who swing their clubs
from the portside, and will be the
outstanding favoriteS to cop the south
paw tournament at Indian Spring.
These are Sam Rice, the present holder
CT the trophy, who has been sharpening
up his golf strokes since base ball quit
on him few days back; Tommy Bones,
the Columbia sharpshooter; Earl Nc
Alcer and Byrn Curtiss The last named
Is away at school and probably will not
be among those present when the port
siders swing into action on October 25,
so the real fight for the trophy will lie
between the first three, with Rice the
fsvorite, If he has enough golf under
his belt to get his swing back into the
old stride. Personally we'll never forget
the 70 that Sam Rice shot in the last
southpaw tournament back in 1929.
when he apparently was a beaten favor
ite and swung through the last 18 holes
OF the 36-hole tourney t. win in a
canter. man who can come back as
Rice did that day never can be count
ed out Of any golf tournament.
THE tourney will not be called the
L 'Namardji Mini" event this year
When the tournament first was
started, after Doc" l. A. Reeves pre-
sented the cup in 1927, Homer S Pope.
then chairman of the Golf Committee
OF the Indian Spring Club, overturned
the Indian Affairs Committee of the
Senate and the Indian Bureau Of the
Interior Department to fird a fitting
name in some Indian language for .
southpaw golfer
gotten records and much lingering CT
dusty files. they finally decided that
the right name for the tourney was
"Namandji Mini" and "Namandji Mini"
1t became. But today there Is a new
order of things at Indian Spring and
the tournament will be called simply
the "southpaw" championship InW-
tatiors are 10 be sent to most of the
golf clubs in the Middle Atlantic area
to send their best portsice swingers ID
play.
THE ninth hole at the Chevy Chase
L Club-lorg one of the easiest holes
on the course-is being stiffened UP
by reconstruction of the green and
addition Of brace Of new traps to
make it one Of the hardest par affairs
to be found anywhere about Washing
ton. The green's force of the club today
were completing the work OF building
two large traps at either side OF the
approach to the green. The size OF the
putting green will not be cut down but
it will be far harder green to reach
from the tee than it has been for many
years. The edge CT the putting surface
has been raised and the whole green
will blend into the background in gentle
fluctuations in place of the fiat surface
Of other seasons
HENRY D. NICHOLSON is once
again the champion golfer of the
Washington Golf and Country
Club. Reaching the final with a series
o. comfortable victories, Nicholson yes
terday downed Thorpe Drain to win
TIE championship. defeating Drain by
margin of and S. Four up at the
noon time interval in the scheduled So
hole final, Nicholson looked at all times
like the winner.
Nicholson won the club title in 1929.
beating Frank K. Roesch, the defending
titleholder, on the thirty-seventh green.
Last year Roesch beat him handily to
win the 1880 championship.
DR.. G. F. Huffman beat Harry D.
eastman by and to win his way
to the semi-final in the 1917 handicap
division and today was to play H. 3.
Wiley In the fnal.
WITH Bob B7rnett, the club profess
w sional, registering a sub-par 81.
golfers of the Chevy Chase Club
won the pley-on yesterday of their tied
match with the Rolling Road Golf
Club, anneXing the rubber engagement
by 10l2 to 7i2. The Chevy Chase team
will meet the Elkrioge Hunt Club team
on Sunday at Elkridge.
BarnettS score was Appropriated, but
he was better than par, nevertheless.
Out in 80, he was back in "a.
Summaries Of the match:
Robert T. Barnett and Richard p David
son LChevy Chase won points from Car
i ton 3 McMaster and John s. Grimes tRoll-
Charles M Mackam and Frank p. Reside
s 6ddeyS GhaT MiiIss point; payid E crook
points.
Fred Hitz and john Britton Chevy Chase.
jr, Trolling Roads, points
E. s. Smith jr.: and E. K, LeEg Chew
Chase, points Charles Carroll and D. H.
Landra b PIatt and q Brown Miller