Evening star., 1932-01-21
BRIDES FLOCKED
BY ASHER, MLEOD
Club President and Pro Per-
form Rare Feat Having
First and Second.
BY WALTER r.. McCALLUM.

lumbia have caused a lot
i of grief for all kinds OF
golfers, in and out of
championships, but there are two
Columbia players who have them
thoroughly whipped and have just
put the finishing touches on the
knockout by playing them in four
better than par. Brides on the
second hole at Columbia are not
unusual, but brides on both the
first and second are not done
every day.
And when two players, in two-ball
match, halve the first hole in bird IS
and then come along to the second
hole and halve that hole in IS, they
have done something that is very
seldom seen on any golf course, par
ticulaly one that is rated as a cham
pionship layout
Clyde B. Asher, Columbia's president,
and Fred Mcleod, the Columbia pro,
have been playing a good deal of golf
together this Winter and, with Mcleod
handicapping Asher, they have had
some hot battles. The hottest Of them
all started a day or so ago, when
they halved the first and second holes
in consecutive birdie IS. And what a
kick they got out of the stunt! At the
first hole Mcleod laid a pitch shot
within feet of the cup, only to have
Asher halve the hole by canning a
15-footer.
A T the second hole Asher laid his
II his mashie niblick second within 2
feet of the cup and then Freddie
retansted by holing a 20-foot putt for
the half In 3. In that round the little
Columbia mentor who is back on his
game after a period Of mediocrity,
played the course in 10, the fourth
score at that figure he has had within
the space of 10 days. Although the
seventeenth is played from short tee
and the green can be reached in one
shot, Mcleod claims the hole is just
as hard for him as the regular seven
teenth played from the back tee, so the
short tee does not reduce the par of the
course, which is just 10 whacks.
But Columbia is not alone in the
matter of getting consecutive brides.
"Chuck" Haley demonstrated the other
day at Washington that brides can be
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ting good tee shot at either hole. At
the sixteenth he sliced his tee shot and
took a braSSie for his second on this
normal drive-and- pitch hole, sinking
20-foot putt for q bird 8. Then at the
seventeenth he half topped his tee shot,
neatly placed his second shot in the
trap at the left Of the green and then
proceeded to hat trick his next shot
into the hole for his second consecutive
birdie. Haley is q southpaw, too, which
again makes character for the claim
that all southpaws are funny that way.
You never can tell what southpaw
will do.
THE Cascades course at Hot Springs,
Il Va, gets the intercollegiate golf
championship this year, an event
that will bring together all the best
collegiate golfers in the country and
will attract the best players at George
town University, the school which has
the leading collegiate team around
Washington. The tourney will be
played during the week of June 27, and
the starters from Georgetown Uniyer-
sity, according to present plans, prob
ably will include Lou Fisher, the long,
hitting son Of one Of the automobile
body magnates from Detroit, and Jack
Lynch, another Georgetown youngster
who has the making of a star player.
The mems Old Dominion champion
ship, now held by Billy Howell, will be
played on April 25, 26 and 27. This
event last year saw Billy Howell win
from T. Phillips Perkins, former British
amateur champion, last year.
George T. Dunlap of Princeton, the
present intercollegiate title holder, will
not defend his title this year because
OF graduation.
last POTOMAC PARK boasts of the
~ two finest putters in the city of
Washington, according to AL Fsrr,
manager Of the course and observer ex-
traordinary of golf events ON the public
links. The two are Mel Shorey, pro-
feSSional at East Potomac Park, and
Earl Jamison. Shorey's abilities on the
putting green are well and fayorsbly
known to lots of folks, including Al
Houghton, A. B. Thorn, Walter w.
Cunningham ct al, but JamiSon Is q
new candidate for putting honors.
Jamison Is q southpaw, who puts the
first finger Of his left hand down the
shaft, as did Walter J. Travis with the
first finger Of his right hand, and he
has the annoying habit Of knocking
the ball into the hole from anywhere
on the green. Five and six foot puts
are easy for this putting genius, Farr
claims, and it is a rare round of 18
holes that does not see at least a cou-
pie Of Is footers go into the hole.
But did you ever watch Miller Ste
Yinson putt, Al? There, for consistency
and confidence on the putting green, is
a man who combines all the putting
virtues, and We are not alone in that
opinion. STEVENSON has won many a
match on the putting green alone, and
his normal average per round Is less
than 80 puts. When you take 4 strokes
off an average Of puts to the green,
you have gone a long way toward re-
ducing your score.
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