Evening star., 1932-12-09
a AT WASHINGTON
BAND TO GET ACES
None Made by Any Member
of Group in More Than
Six Months of Play.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

LILA C1 tAlC ONSAo cAS oAAAot
M a hole-in-one on any
Y Y golf course2
They must be away
up, probably somewhere around a
million to one, but still the holes
in-one continue to be made. Mem
bers Of a hopeful group of IA
players at Washington Golf and
Country Club, who banded to-
gether in a poo six months or
more ago, have yet to hear of an
ace recorded by one of their num-
ber, despite the generous bonus
which will go to the lucky indi-
vidual.
They put $40 each into pool, with
the entire pot to go to the first man
who scores an ace. This group, col
lectively, has played many hundreds Of
rounds since the pool was first organ
lied, for some are on the course almost
every day, banging away at the four
one-shot holes. The competition Is not
limited to the Washington course. They
collect If they score an ace on any
other golf course. Among them these
men probably have played several thou
sand rounds of golf, and not an ace
has been made.
VET aces come along elsewhere every
i once in while. Clyde B. Asher,
president of the District of Colum-
bia Golf Association. probably has ac-
complished the most unusual stunt of
any golfer around Washington in the
matter Of making aces. Two years ago
IN af ryft
Whiteford and Sherman Ford, members
of Burning Tree and Columbia, SIM
liar to the one now existing at WASH
ington. During his Summer vacation,
Asher went to New England. One day
at York Harbor he scored an ace, and
the following day at a course within q
few miles OF York Harbor he scored
another
Two holes-in-one within "a hours.
Unique? Yes and probably without
parallel anywhere around Washington,
although two holes-in-one have been
scored in the same round of golf else
where. Needless to say, both White
ford and Ford were notified of Asher's
3eats by wire.
OF the many thousands of rounds of
golf played on the dozen private golf
courses around Washington probably
only about dozen aces have been made
this year, an average Of one to course
each year. Yet Washington has large
group of golfers who can play iron
shots as well as any group of golfers
anywhere.
Most of the holes-in-one around the
Capital come at the public courses. The
main reason, naturally, is that there
Is more golf played on the public courses
than at the private clubs, and there
fore the chances for e-in-one are
greater.
Combine that fact with the proba-
billty that the one-shot holes on the
public courses are easier than those at
the private clubs and therein lies the
reason for more les-in-one ON the
municipal links. But holes-in-one are
not confined to the better golfers. They
come from the clubs of the high
handicap golfers more often than they
do from those whose ambition 1t Is to
approximate par whenever they start.
TAKE Guy Mason of Congressional,
i for example. Mason plays golf
only for pastime and exercise. He
scores anywhere between 30 and 100,
but he has scored two aces.
Over at Washington most Of the aces
have been made by men in the high
handicap brackets, while the better
players have gone without them. The
same holds true at most courses. Bobby
Jones played golf for is years or more
before he scored an ace. What man
in the game has knocked the ball more
consistently close to the pin than Jones?
Yet Sandy Herd. famed British pro-
fessional. has made something like 18
aces in his lengthy career on the golf
course. Tommy Armour, famed the
world over as the greatest iron player
of them all. has scored but two aces
in his 20-odd years Of banging away
at distant pins.
1t is plain that this business of scor-
ing aces is an uncanny matter Of
straight shooting and big percentage
of luck, with the percentage far in
, favor of the lucky individual who plays
only fair shot and watches it trickle
into the hole. Aces have been made
by caroming of bunkers, hitting pins,
even by hitting trees and rocks. The
man who gets one has played a good
shot, but also he has had little bet
ter than an even break from the golf
ing fates.
LIVE members Of the board of gov
J. ernors Of the Chevy Chase Club
whose terms had expired have been
Reelected to the board for additional
terms. They are II. Prescott Galley,
Stanton c. Peele, E. o. Wagenhorst,
John w. Childress and c. Ashmead
Fuller. The entire board will meet next
Monday for organization purposes and
to elect club officers for 1888. Galley
is president of the club.
THE greens force at Columbia, just
L finished with the reconstruction
of the seventh and thirteenth
greens, now are busy reducing the slope
of the green from back to front The
new sixth green was put in use last
Spring, and a season of play convinced
the Greens Committee that the green
had too much slope. So part of that
slope Is being taken out. Meanwhile
the new seventh and thirteenth greens
are coming In for enthusiastic favorable
comment among the members, who find
them batter than the old green's