Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-16
Bellies GOLF AXIOM
AT CONGRESSIONAL
His SO Shows Length Equals
Acknowledgement Wins
at Chevy Chase.
By WALTER R. McCALLUM.

tn ONT let any one put across
on you that old hokum
IL about the fellow who hits
a long ball from the tee
on a golf course not being able
to score. It's just the plain bunk,
for common sense will tell any
one that the fellow who knocks
them long, even though he may
not always be on the fairway,
usually is fairly we'll equipped by
nature with power enough to
plough them out of the rough and
still get them on the green with
an iron while the shorter chap is
using the wooden club from the
fairway.
1t used to be back in the dim days
Of Walter Travis and others like him
that the short driving. accurate gent
who could putt was more often than
not the victor over the slugger That
axiom still has in it a considerable
Smattering of truth, but in these days
the long hitters also are usually fairly
good putters and they also generally
have the ability to knock a ball out of
the rough. Witness that amazing first
nine played by Big Monroe Hunter a
few days back at Indian Spring, when
he secured two eagles in the first seven
holes.
And bend an ear to the latest tale of
. fellow who can knock a golf ball
about as far as any one can pound EN-
from the tee. We mean M. Parker
Nolan, sptly named the Congressional
siege gum" who is about as long a
hitter as we have in the amateur ranks
about the Capital Nolan is far more
than long hitter He is a long &C.
curate hitter and the difference means
something. He Is not as good as he
might be with the intermediate irons,
but gent who poles them so far from
the tee does not need to be a Chick
Evans with the irons to get around a
golf course in respectable figures.
Nolan played the other day at Cen
gressional with Bill Jones, Ray Schrei-
ner and Carl Weigel. They played the
last nine, first and none of the four,
including Nolan, himself, had any idea
OF the fireworks to come when Nolan
played the back nine" in 80. Now
80 is just fair golf for that last nine
at Congressional. Not so good, and not
bad. Just fair.
Well, the "seige gun" stood on the
hrSt tee, facing the green more than 500
yards away, and poled out a shot that
made Walter Johnsons old fast one
look like Spring breeze. And he fol4
lowed it up with brassie shot to the
miadle of the green, and to make the
yarn better he canned the putt for an
eagle 3-something that has not been
done since Tommy Armour did the
same stunt couple of years back. That
started Nolan of and he went like a
whirlwind from that point on, playing
the nine in SO strokes, which is nothing
more nor less, boys and girls, than 4
under par. Let some one shoot against
that, and we don't mean l6-handicap
men. either. Bring 'em on, all of them,
and let them shoot against a 80 for that
first nine at Congressional. Just to
show how far Nolan was poking that
golf ball. he reached the eighth green,
some $50 yards from the tee, with a
drive and nashie. And again he
holed the putt for an eagle 8. He nm
ished with a par 3 on the short ninth.
Did We hear a still, small voice saving
the new ball cannot be hit as far as the
old one? Here are Nolan's figures on
that fine round: