Evening star., 1932-07-28
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

~ AGLES are fairly common on
- golf courses around the Capital
| these days, when baked fair
ways and closely clipped grass
give a well hit tee shot big run.
They make 'em every day, these par
seeking players, who sock the ball for
a long ride and then fling an iron shot
up alongside the hole, but what would
they call the hole made in three bet
ter than par? Freddie Mcleod has
had one on the twelfth hole at Co
lunlbia on a day several years. ago
when spoon second shot trickled INTO
the cup.
And Bill Jones OF Congressional
came within a quarter inch of having
one few days ago at his home course
Bill crashed out a good tee shot at
the par 5 eighth hole. Then he wal.
loped q No. 3 iron toward the pln' lIO
wards away. AS he came up TO the
green some players on the ninth tes
yelled, Hey, Bill, your ball Is leaning
against the flagstaff"
Don't touch it," yelled Bill. he
wanted to get that deuce. But when
ne came W tlIC boA oAAA
flag. a quarter inch of grassy turf kept
the the bali from rolling in. 1t probably
had hit the staff gently and rebounded
: lust far enough away to keep from
rolling in. And now Bill wonders what
he would call such a stroke OF luck
They call it a cuckoo in England
hut there have been so few OF them
made in this country that the name
hasn't registered
CENE SARAZEN, holder OF the
" American and British open goil
championships, who is "the great
est golfer in the Wcrld," II you beneVe
the letterheads sent out by Ray NC
Carthy. his manager. may appear IN
Washington in October in an exnlplti0n
match. Negotiations are under way oy
at least two Washington clubs to get the
stocky little Italian-Amer1can from Ne"
York here to show his w1zarory.
Sarazen and Tommy Armour are a.
present gallivanting around tne co9h-
try, picking up the dollars Wherever tney
NAV fall, and Gene Is so well booKeo
that washington cannot have peek al
him before october. He may come mere
to play in the National Capital oper
tourney at Kenwood, but meanwhile tw'
local clubs are after his services.
IF that match in which Billy Burke
and George Won Elm took part at In
dian Spring crossed 81 800 last Septem,
Der. at a dollar head, what WouIC
the worlds greatest golfer" take in a.
the gate? Gene is popular flgure-ne
doubt of that-and he has the knacK o.
doing the spectacular often enough C
get him in the headlines. He would puL
a big crowd at any Washington cluo.
Tommy Armour's tour with Sarazel
terminates at the end Of July, but ne
more popular partner could be founC
for Gene than the Black Scot. H'
also has the knack Of doing the spec
tacular.
Remember a match in which Sarazer
nlayed with Johnny Farrell at tn'
Washington Golf and Country CLUB
few years back? Gene wasn't so gooc
that day, but he did one thing that hae
the gallery gasping. He sliced his te'
shot into the woods at the par 5 fourtf
hole in q spot where an ordinary pr
would think of nothing but playing sale
Not for Gene, this wishy-washy brand o
golf. He always takes chance. some
where up in that waste of trees and un
derbrush he found little opening
through the branches. He walloped tina
ball right through the providential gal
to the green 24o yards away and RAJ
down the putt for an eagle 8. He di,
the same thing at the eighth hole, Whicl
was a par S in those days, whacking IN
ball to within feet Of the hole with
spoon and sinking the putt for a ;
| Gene always puts on good show. H
is colorful, and that's what they pa
to see.
WITH a good many Of the matche
| w played in all the flights in tn
Uptown" championship unde
wav at Rock Creek Park, more matche