Evening star., 1932-12-21

the ninth of that last round to get out
in 80, leading Phil Perkins by . shot At
that point. He needed to come nome
in SO to win. 81 to tie. Standing on
the tenth tee. facing that fearsome lest
nine which had claimed 20 many VIC
tins. Gene roughed up the grip OF MS
driver as Bill Richardson said TO MN ::
Gene. aren't you ever going 70 sop
getting birdies?"
Watch me 60 over this nine Hehe
replied. . A.. .,x
teenth hole the championshlp was IN
In fact it was in after he holed 10.
footer for a bird at the fifteenth. Az
the end. the little New Yorker laced ms
second at the eighteenth into . trap
and with the milling OF thousand: OF
people at its height around nm, calmly
blasted the ball out six feet from the
hole and sank the putt to win.
Unuuestionably Sarazsns closing
round of sc over q course tough enough
to defy the worlds best golfers, was the
finest competitive exhibition OF the year
RUT out at Kenwood something IKE
ID 200 golnrg folks Of Washington got
themselves q major thrill llttle
mere than a month ego watching Hor-
ton Smith carve his way out Of q tough
SPOT and save the stroke that won MIN
the Kenwood open.
Horton led Denny Shute by two shots
going to the seventeenth hole. and
Shute had secured a 3 there. finish
ing with 218 Facing Q cold nortn
wind. the Missouri youngster cut loose
with a wild hook from the tee that hit
a tree and caromed far over into deep
woods at the left of the green. where
he had to play to a green sloping away
from him, and might toss away not
only his lead. but any chance OF hrst
money. He might hit tree and bounce
deeper into the woods. He might &C
over the green into Q trap. He might
do anything, even a six or a seven:
But the cagey Westerrer knocked the
up over the bank OF the green. He go'
his four, and led by stroke.
Shute had taken five on the last
hole Horton deliberately played MI
second shot short of the eighteenth
green, Clipped up 4 feet short and
holed the putt, to win by two strokes
That took brains and skill. 1t was one
of the major thrills of the year for a
lot of people who understood the stu
alton out there in the biting cold a
Kenwood
Golf can and does produce thrills
1t isn't a game Of care-free. tearing
action. where a squirt Of activity BY ar
opponent puts the player on the de.
fensive 1t is a game OF repression, ol
gnaWing. nagging nerves that bear doWr
when the going is toughest. Somewhere
along the route in any championship
the big thrill is sure to come. And l9S.
had its share Of them.
T ROBERT SHERWOOD is the win
]. ner OF q set Of Is matched gol
clubs and a golf bag raffled of a.
the Beaver Dam Country Cub last nigh
by Cliff Spencer. the club pro. Sher'
wood lives at 1920 Thirty-first street
Mount Rainier. and is one Of Beaver
Dams enthusiastic golfers.
G G. LOEFFLER again NmSoperat'
y. two Of Washingtons largest pub
lie golf courses. The once o.
Public Buildings and Parks has an
nounced the award to Locfner for I
three.year period Of the concession fo
golf at East Potomac and Rock Creel
Parks. Loeff1er has operated the gol
courses in these parks and in Wes
Potomac Park for the past IL years
His bid of $45.360 for three years wa
the highest submitted and won th'
award.
Loeff1er, in our judgment, after havinl
seen the operation OF many other pub
lie golf courses in many other cities. ha
given Washington better and cheape
public golf than any concessionnair
we know Of Public link golfers II
Washington not only have their choic
of several fine courses. but also get thei
golf at cheaper price than in an
other city in the East The courses a
East Potomac Park and West Potoma
Park are good golf courses. well oper
ated and kept In good condition.