Evening star., 1932-01-02
DAILY PLAY HEAVY
DESPITE CALENDAR
Columbia Establishes Record
With Average of Ninety for
Year Round.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

BY w. TX. McCALLUM.
w YASHINGTON'S virtues as
M Winter resort have
Wv been extolled to the skies
v ' so many times by en-
thuSiastic civic organizations that
a good part of the Nation really
believes the National Capital has
that balmy Winter CLINE which is
typical of the sunny South" But
it remains for golf and golfers to
tell the world that the Capital
really has a climate in which golf
may be played in the dead of
Winter practically every day with
out discomfort and to a degree
that challenges the advantages Of
the Summer months.
We have had a very unusual Fall and
early Winter, a Winter which causes
the old timers to stroke their boards
and utter. those distinguished words of
an older generation: I'VE don't have
the Winters We used to have. Why,
we used to have snow and ice. Re
member when the Potomac was frozen
from shore to shore from early Deem
ber to mid-March?" Nowadays even
the golf courses are thawed out suffi-
GENTLY to permit of regslar and COM
Portable play throughout most Of the
Winter, and II you don't believe the
golfers are taking advantage OF this
balmy Winter cast a weather eye over
these figures for average play each day
on the local golf layouts:
At Columbia, where there Is more
play in week than at several Of the
other courses combined in a month, the
daily average of golfers leaving the first
tee in these balmy Midwinter days is rs.
Over favorable week end Columbia
will entertain 300 players, as it did
over the last week end. Columbia has
set this year an all-tipne record for use
OF its course, with a daily average
throughout the year OF 80 players, for q
grand total Of nearly $4,000 golfers.
THEVY CHASE is averaging between
~ IS and 40 players each day through
the week, with double this number
using the course each Saturday and
Sunday.
Washington has a daily playing av-
erage Of more than so, with more than
125 persons using the course each day
over week ends
Indian Spring has a daily average Of
about 40 golfers, with such heavy week
end play that more than 100 golfers
use the course each Saturday and Sun
day.
At Congressional the figures for the
last six days are: Saturday, 1856; Sun
Day, ITO Monday, g.; Tuesday, AS;
Wednesday, rs; Thursday so. which
gives an indication of how the popular
Congressional course is used In the dead
OF Winter and strikes an average OF
somewhere around rs players a day at
time when golf Is supposed to be q
dead letter.
At the Manor Club there is steady
daily play, averaging somewhere around
40 OF bot tn sexes.
NATURALLY the play at the two
~ large public courses-Rock Creek
Park and East Potomac Park Is
heavier than it is at the private clubs.
Inc ticket sales at both Rock Creek
and East Potomac Park are holding up
we'll in these Midwinter days, with a
daily average of about $50 at East Poto-
mac Park and about 200 at Rock Creek
Park. S. G.. Loef1er. the concession
naire at the public courses, saws the
play at both places has been unusually
heavy this Winter so far. He attrib-
uteS part of the heavy play to the fact
that many Government employees take
their annual leave during the Christ
mas holidays and many schoolboys are
using the courses during the holiday
vacation periods.
At Burning Tree and Woodmont
there never is a great deal of play
through the week, even during the
Summer, but most of the regulars at
both these clubs are using the courses
these mild Winter days Just as they
did during the fine golfng days of the
past Autumn.
Clubs like Columbia, Washington, In
dian Spring, Chevy Chase and Congress
Slonal all have a number of regular
golferS-mcn who play almost every day,
weather permitting These men have
found the favorable weather of the last
eight weeks very much to their liking.
Probably at no time within the last
decade has there been so much golf
played around Washington. Favorable
weather Is the answer to a golfers
dream, and he had plenty of it during
the waning days of 1881. The fsyorite
remark at most golf clubs now Is why
go to Florida when we can play golf
just as comfortably here at homer"
JUST as We expected, the gents who
have made unusual shots on golf
courses scattered around Washing
ten are writing in to tell of their we'll
time records of golf courses down almost
to the absolute minimum Today comes
a note from Fulton Brylawski, one of
Woodmont's most enthusiastic golfers
(who plays fine game), with a cor
rection for the all-time ringer score for
the Woodmont course Arthur Thorn
scratched his head for a long time to
bring that ringer score down to AZ
strokes, but he overlooked the deuce
made last year on the ninth hole by
William G. Illch in a match against
Mort Wilmer, the former Pennsylvania
foot ball star. We recorded the ninth
hole as ringer and are glad now to
be able to reduce 1t to a deuce. Also
friend Brylawski relates how Gustave
Ring made the fourteenth hole in one
two years ago, which brings Woodmont's
ringer score down to 40 strokes. Bry-
lawski, incidentally, is one of those who
have holed deuces on the par first and
fourth holes. Thank you, friend Bry-
lawski, and Happy New Year! Un-
doubtedly there have been omissions on
some of the other all-time ringer scores
which we obtain from club records and
the club professionals. Tell us about 'em
and We'll be glad to correct them.