Evening star., 1932-02-27
SPHERES CHEAPER
|. IF BOUGHT IN LOTS
Reductions Prevail in Other
Equipment-Dues Here
Remain Same.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

TIME long-expected reduction
in the price of golf balls,
i predicted in The Star four
months ago, has come at
last. Golf professionals at the
clubs around the Capital have
been notified within the past few
hours that 75-cent balls of stand
ard makes, which have retailed in
dozen lots at rs cents each for
many years, now will sell in dozen
lots at So, or a price of 65 cents
each.
To the purchaser of a single ball
the price will remain the same, at
rs cents, while those who purchase
balls in lots of three-the way in
which the major part of golf balls
sales are made-will get them for
So for three, or at the rate of a
little more than 66 cents each.
The imported golf balls which have
been selling for IS cents each and
more than ten dollars a dozen have
dropped to SO dozen, and correspond
ing reductions have been made in the
price of the cheaper balls. All Of
which will break the heart of no divot
digger who has watched the mounting
price of golf equipment over the past
10 years.
THE reduction in golf ball prices fol-
l. lows similar drop in the price Of
most articles of golf equipment
over the last few months. Steel-shafted
| iron clubs of a popular make, brought
out in a new model with the name of
an ex-open and amateur champion on
| them, which sold last year for $50 for
set Of ten, now are selling for $75.
Strangely enough, another set of sub
StantlaLy the same clubs, put out under
the name of another organization and
bearing the signature of the same ex-
champion, now sell in sets of nine for
$54 Wooden clubs in sets of three
which sold a year ago for $45 the set,
or SIS each, now are selling for $40 and
S12 apiece. Golf shoes, hose and other
wearing apparel all have had a corre-
spending drop and it is certain that
1882 will see the well-equipped golfer
spending less money for his divot dig
ging material than any year over the
last decade
On the club dues side of the picture
there has been no reduction in club
dues around Washington, but, after all.
golf club dues constitute only small
part OF the money spent each year by
golfers who play any large amount OF
| golf. Some of the clubs around the
/ a a I1nTr
this winter, but the situation has not
been serious enough to force any of the
clubs to take vigorous curtailment
measures.
ONE deuce in a round of golf usually
~ IS enough to please your ordinary
| golfer, but v. Calvert Dickey, "the
man who never gives up," at Washing
! ton, is not satisfied with the deeds Of
ordinary players. When Dickey starts
out to do anything in a golfng way
he does it up brown. For yesterday he
played the four short holes at Wash
ington in two strokes better than even
IS, scoring IS on the second and ninth
holes and birdie deuces on the 18th
and 14th. A 20-foot-putt found the
bottom of the cup for a at the 18th
and he holed chip shot for a deuce
at the l4th.
Tor the first time in many years the
l. eighteen hole at Columbia has
been made in two strokes Charles
Shelton did it some years ago and yes
terday H. King Cornwell, Columbia
member, uncorked lengthy tee shot
and followed it with a fine No. 8 iron
shot which struck on the near edge of
the green, took one long hop and went
into the cup. Charles r. White, who was
sitting above the eighteenth green, said
the ball acted like rabbit seeking its
burrow when it hit the hole. The other
members of the foursome were James
w. Beller, Frank S. Appleman and w
r. McCallum.
DELEGATES from seven Washington
- clubs met last night with officials
of the Maryland State Golf ASso-
c1atton at the Chevy Chase Club, dis
cussed the State handicapping system
for more than an hour and settled upon
the clubs at which many Of the import
tant fixtures to be played by the Mary
land association will be held this year.
To Columbia goes the Maryland
open, tourney open only to profess
sionalS and amateurs attached to Mary
land clubs. The event will be played
on September %. Official announce
ment was made at the meeting that the
sectional qualification rounds for the
amateur championship will be played
at the Chevy Chase Club on a date,
probably in August, to be chosen by
the United States Golf Association.
The women's championship of Mary
land will be played at the Elkridge
Hunt Club in June and the junior and
senior championships were awarded to
the Maryland Country Club and the
Green Spring Valley Club The anna
teur title tilt will be played at the
Hillendale Club Of Baltimore. The as
sociation will continue its series Of
monthly handicap Journeys this year,
with two to be awarded to the Wash
ington area. The schedule for these
affairs has not yet been drawn up.
Discussion of handicaps centered
around the two systems generally in
use, the Watson-Smith system, now
used by the Maryland State organiza-
ton, and the Calkins system, as used
by the District Golf Association. 1t
was decided to have both associations
continue under the systems which they
have been using.