Evening star., 1932-04-15
FREDDIE DEFEATED,
But STRIVES AGAIN
Mrs. Haynes, Quinter, BeIIer
and Osborne Are Given
12-Stroke Handicap.
BY w. II. McCALLUM.

0AN a top-notch golfer give
| four good woman players
~ hatful of strokes and play
their best ball, minus the
strokes which he gives 'em?
Ask Freddie Mcleod. He knows
1t can't be done, unless the male
player moves along at a fairly
last clip, for Freddie is looking
ahead to a return engagement
with the four fair players who
handed him a trouncing a day or
TWO ago at Columbia.
Freddie essayed to play the best ball
OF Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes, the middle
AtIantlc women's champion; Mrs. H. R
n. 4. osborne. The first three women
are members of Columbia and Mrs Os-
porne Is member of the Army Navy
country Club. The popular little Co
Iumnla pro tried to give the best ball
OF the quartet of women IL strokes
ana the women put Mcleod away OF
the fourteenth hole, winning by and
4: They had gross best bail of rs
stroEeS, and Freddie, despite the wind
played the course in rs. But his rs
was not much good against a 78 with
the handicap strokes he gave them
Perhaps had Freddie played at his very
pest pace, somewhere around SO or 10.
ne might have put up a better argu-
ment,, but even at that he would have
been hard pushed to win, if the women
played a better ball Of anything like
78.
a FEW years ago some of the ANA
n teur stars, notably Jess Sweetser
and Francis Ouimet, ATTEMPTED to
give some of the better women PLAYERS
handlcap OF strokes or a half stroke
Q mole In single round of golf. Glenna
Collett Ware played in one of these
matches, and Joyce Wethered, her great
English rival. played in another against
a star BRUSH amateur. In both cases
the male players were licked, which
seemed to prove that there isn't nine
strokes OF difference between tn golf
played by men and by women, both crack
players in their class. Maureen Or
cults "a at Columbia last week would
nave given any male star a trouncinp
mad he conceded her a half stroke a
hole, for the New JeJrsey lass played the
first nine in IS, and by that time would
have been SO far ahead she couldn't
be reached. And there are half dozen
women In this country good enough to
do as well. Freddie Mcleod is going
back after another attempt to demon
strate he can give the best bah of the
Tour women named II strokes. He NAV
win, but the odds are against it.
DOB BARNETT, the Chevy Chase
~ pro, declares that Maureen Orcutt,
In the round she played at Chevy
Chase, played what stands out in his
mind as the greatest golf shot he ever
has seen. 1t came on the eleventh hole
and showed the courage of Miss Orcutt,
for the match was close and one hole
meant everything. She hit what Barnett
called fair drive down the middle of
the eleventh fairway and the caddie
handed her No. iron Whats down
there in front of the green?" she asked.
"A high bank, with ditch in front
CT it," the caddie replied
Give me my brassie," Miss Orcutt
said. I've never played safe in my life
and this is not the time to start" With
which she laced into that ball with
everything she had and hit it so well
that 1t carried at least 225 yards, bare
ly caught the top Of the bank in front
of the green and dropped back into the
water. THAT Is the greatest shot I ever
have seen," Barnett says. I'm the first
place the carry was phenomenal for a
woman, and her courage in trying and
then in hitting the shot so well made
me wonder. think it was the finest
shot I have seen"
Barnett hit tee shot only a little