Evening star., 1932-07-14
AN OLD IDEA WILL
PREVAIL ON JU[YS
Dance to Be Held as Part
of Affair-SherWood
Course Improved.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

handle the growing affairs
of the Maryland State Golf
Association have broken out
in a new place with an old idea.
Nineteen thirty-two being what is
laughingly called Leap year,
they announce today a Leap
year mixed two-ball foursome,
to be played at the Con-
gressional Country Club or
July 26, the first of such series
of affairs to be staged by the asso-
citation. An entry fee of 81 will
be charged each couple, which
covers the cost of the golf and a
dinner-d dance to be held at Con-
gressional on the evening of the
contest.
Just why they named it a Leap Year
contest no one seems to know, but those
boys have put across some delightful
affairs and are due to stage some more,
including the national amateur cham
pionship so that when they have an
idea like this one, there must be some
thing to it. However, the thing that
puzzles us is the inference. Leap Year
carries possibilities of wedding bells
and orange blossom corsages and pretty
maids and gallant lads. But, according
to their own confession, most of the
Maryland golfers are too busy nova
days to play much golf. Some of them
admit they have to keep busy to keep
a jump ahead of the receiver. And
now they intend to stage a Leap Year
mixed foursome. My, oh, my, how they
do let themselves in for fun! And
don't they have it!
DUT anyhow, this thing is going
- across. I can hear Bill Waxter
saying it now, in his grim way.
And I can hear Bill Hall rising up to
his stalwart height of nearly feet
and announcing that this Leap Year
party is going to be real party. Bill
Hall you know. is not married. Per-
haps it was arranged for him. But
even if he stays away from the min
lister, he still has fine locker room
voice. AS an inducement to the boys
to get themselves feminine partners
and Whack a golf ball around and
across and through the Congressional
course the association announces that
prizes will be awarded to the teams
having the low gross and low net. The
handicap for each team will be arrived
at by adding the handicap of both play
ers and dividing by two. All male con-
testantS must have a 1882 Maryland
handicap card, and the women will
have the last laugh. So be it, boys.
You brought it on yourselves.
THANGES made in the course at
~ Sherwood Forest have robbed this
hazardous layout cf a few of the
terrors that once beset the golfer who
wandered from other than the straight
and narrow path to the cup. And how
straight and narrow that path is at
Sherwood ForeStl The eleventh hole has
been improved by widening of the fair
way, which gives the long hitter
chance for two full blasts to reach the
green at this par hole Those pesKy
trees at the right of the fairWay at the
twelfth have been cut down and now
ball can be hit to the right to open
up the green. But the best of all
changes has come on the eighteenth
hole. Remember in past years how a
drive out to the right, in the spot which
was supposed to open up the hole, rolled
down into sunken road from which it
could hardly be played?
WELL, they have covered over that
w read, and now a ball hit out to the
right implies only the ordinary
penalty, common enough at Sherwood.
of getting into the woods. We once saw
fine golf match and possibly tourna-
ment, lost because a splendid young
golfer hit a ball too far on that
eighteenth hole. The ball was good for
line, but went down in that sunken
road, and he lost the match and pos
sibly the tournament. Today, he would
have chance to get his f.
The course generally has been brushed
up by cutting down underground along
some of the fairways, and is in very
good condition. But think, brother,
think when you start out, of taking
along plenty of gclf balls No matter
how straight you think you are, you are
bound to have an experience or two with
those woods They have a habit Of
Sneaking up on you and Snatching away
your recalcitrant sphere as have few
other courses of which We know.
d EAR ADMIRAL CHARLES B. Nc
N Way is the winner of the Mid
season Trophy for senior golfers
of the Chevy Chase Club. Admiral
McVay, playing with all the elan of a
sailor, triumphed in the final round
ONCl SOI. OOllIl IL SOHlCo, AaAAA-
lubber, by margin of 4 and 3.
MRS. RICHARD N. SUTTON Won
1V1 the handicap medal play tourney
at the Washington Golf and
Country Club yesterday after a tie at
net 78 with Mrs. James L. Fieser. The
pair tied with identical cards of 96
1876, and Mrs. Sutton won on the
draw.
Mrs. William E. Hall secured third
place with a card of 95l5-80.
DICKINSON and Mandell are the
- finalists in the current Oily
Boids" tourney at Rock Creek
Park Dickinson defeated Tarbett,
and l in one semi-fnal, and Mandell
won on the nineteenth hole from White
In the other semi-f1nal.
One fine morning soon these two
will get up at the crack of dawn to
settle their argument. That's a way
the oily BoidS" have. They play golf
while most of Washington sleeps.
DHLY HARDY, clubmaker for Bob
ID Barnett at Chevy Chase is