Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-06-12
0NE Of the little noted but none the

0NE OF the little noted but none the
~ less remarkable features Of the
championship tourney of the Mid
Ole Atlantic Golf Association, finished
last Friday at the Columbia Country
Club. was the showing made by En-
mons 8. Smith. who learned the game
nearly a decade ago from Fred Nc
Leod. when Emmons S. Smith, ST., was
the beloved president Of the Columbia
country Club and Emmons junior was
youngster then in high school. En-
mons Smith wen the second flight in
TIE tourney and In winning 1t dis
played exceptionally fine gclf. defeat
ing at least two men who were ratea
his superior
A small man. Smith is not a long
hitter from the tee. but he is a terror
around the putting green. He did
something no other competitor was
able to do on the tough seventh hole
at Columbia. In his four match play
rounds he scored four brides on this
hole, hole which caused as much
anguish as any hole along the entire
route. At least one of the puts for a
birdie was lengthy one. but it went
down nevertheless. Smith defeated Tom
Sommerville of Pennington, Va, in the
final round Sommerville can outhit
him by so yards, as did most OF Smiths
opponents, but Smiths deadly short
game won his matches for him just
the same.
A MOTHER woman's golf tourney Is
IA slated to be played tomorrow at
the Army-Navy Country Club by
the fair golfers who play in the events
Of the Womans District Go'f Associa-
tion. 1t will be an l8-hole medal play
handicap event, with an entry fee OF 81.
For those who wish TO play but nine
holes the fee will be so cents, Entrants
are requested to report at the f1rst tee
by 8 Am.
WHAT 4 queer thing this golf game
w 10. and how often a mans game
completely reverses itself in the
same day? Ernie Caldwell. who won
the Middle Atlantic championship last
week. putted pitifully against Leroy
Sasscer in the semifinal. During most
of the match he blew short puts, COM,
ing through only at the end, where he
holed a brace of six footers on the
seventeenth and eighteenth, to win by
l up. But in the final against William
X. Ianman, the new champion from
Hillendale. putted like an inspired man
Better putting may have been put on
somewhere, but offhand We can't recall
where.
Lengthy puts for birds and pars
ratified off Caldwells steel-shafted put
ter like machine gun fusillade beating
tattoo of defeat for the phlegmatic
former Yale golf captain. Lanman
played golf good enough to win almost
any final round anywhere, but against
the inspired putting streak OF Caldwell
he was helpless How a man can putt
like a duffer in one round and then. on
the same day, in the next round. putt
like Hagen at his very best, is one OF
the unsolved mysteries of the game
Caldwell is worthy champion, and one
whose name graces the historic old
championship cup. The issue was put
squarely up to him on the eighth and
ninth holes In that championship final
and he came through like a champion.
holing lengthy puts for brides to halve
both holes. That is championship golf
as 1t should be played.
THOSE two fighting gladiators-
i Caldwell and Lanman-put on
show that was worthy Of national
and one that has seldom been duplicated
in any championship final All in all
the Middle Atlantic was in many ways
the finest tourney that has been played
in the long series Of tournaments started
by the Middle Atlantic Golf Association
back in 1904.
Perfect weather conditions prevailed,