Evening star., 1932-08-13
LYDE B. ASHER and Fred Nc
Leod, two golfing gents who
carry on at Columbia, have

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Leod, two golfing gents who
carry on at Columbia, have
discovered new ways to play
the seventh hole at that course
Asher is president of the Columbia
Country Club and also heads the Dis
trict Golf Association. Fred Mcleod is
the same genial and wise little golf
mentor who Is looked upon as the
nestor of the game in this neck Of the
bunkered woods. Asher could write vol
umes on the style Of champions, for he
has travelled many thousands Of miles
to watch national championships over
the past decade. Probably no man
around Washington, with the exception
Of the ever-present newspaper men, has
seen more high-class golf that has
Asher
All this knowledge of how to finish
a hole helped him in finding the new
way to score a birdie 3 on the seventh
hole of his own course. And Freddies
background Of years in the game show
ed him how to come up with par 4,
after losing a stroke on the hole. They
we're playing together-Asher and NC
Leod-and from the seventh tee Asher
ucorked a wild hook that surely was
destined to come to rest far over the
fence in George Dunlops field But 1t
hit the fence and dropped down into
the rough, still long way from the
green. So Freddie. not to be outdone,
proceeded to hook his tee shot. too. But
instead of hitting the fence and drop
ping back on the golf course, Freddie's
ball went through into the jungle land
ont of bounds. He hit another ball
straight down the middle.
Then Asher took brassie from the
rough and carefully topped it. That
doggone ball rolled and rolled and
llnally rolled through the gargantuan
bunker in front of the green right up
on the putting surface within few
feet of the cup. It's seldom a ball rolls
through that bunker, but Asher cap
ped it all by holing the putt for a
birdie 8. The only shot he hit well
was the putt, and he got birdie.
Then Freddie pitched right up against
the pin and despite his ball out OF
bounds ;ecured par 4 on the hole.
The tee shoe doesn't always decide the
| hole.
Young Jimmy Drain did much the
same stunt on the par fifteenth hole
at Washington the other day. He
sliced tee shot. topped second shot
that partially ran through the dltcn
| and found a lie in a patch OF fairway
down in the ditch, half-topped ms
mashie- -niblick pitch and holed Is
! foot putt for a birdie 4. "Scrambling
golf" they call it in the big champion
! ships. But it looks the same on the
score card as hole that has been per-
fectly played.
A RRANGEMENTS are being COM
"A p.eted by the committee In cnarge
, of the amateur championship Tor
one of the biggest tournaments ever
staged in this part OF the country.
Under plans announced today automo-
bile parking for the general public VIII
| be allowed beyond the fourth and NTH
! hole of the Five Farms course. Park
ing for the committees and of1cials Will
be at the club house. The course may
only be reached by motor.
DIG things went on in golf way at
- Chevy Chase yesterday. Nearly all
the prospective entrants IN the
amateur championship eiimlnaIi9n an .ia
rounds tried out the course and by mid
afternoon the course was crowded with
golfers trying out their shots.
Harry G.. Pitt, the District champion,
who has been playing indifferently for
a week, came right back onto his game
with vengeance, playing the course
in 10, one over par. and finishing with
a S on the last hole where 4 would
have given him par equaling So.
Harry played in four-ball match with
Roland Mackenzie, Fred Mcleod and
w. r. McCallum. Roland was able to
| ulay only nine holes, for he still Is
weak from a recent operation and nine
tired him so that he felt he had better
not continue.
But the other three kept on and Pitt.
after playing the first nine in "a. one
better than par, breezed home in So for
his 10. He subsequently played another