Evening star., 1932-09-24
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

IF you qualified far down in the
seventh flight in club golf tourna-
ment with a score somewhere
around 96 or 81, you would expect
to be able to win matches with scores
around 80 or So And if you shot your
regular game in that seventh flight and
took a 9 and 7 licking you would feel
that somewhere along the line there was
something wrong, wouldn't you?
1t all happened at Indian Spring,
where the club championship tourna-
ment now is in progress, with Tom
Belshe, club title holder, defending the
crown he won last Fall.
Up there in the first flight scores Of
IS and better are common. They are
expected of the gents who make the
first flight, but down in the seventh
flight, while the competition is usually
just as keen, the scoring isn't so good.
That's why DR.. L. T. Souder is going
around singing the blues today as he
looks back on his match against S. G..
Rigby far down in the high-scoring
brackets. where Rigby shot a first-f1ight
game to whip Souder by and Z.
Rigby qualified in that flight with a
card OF SO, which was just about the
normal qualifying score for the men in
the seventh flight. He was paired
against DR.. Souder and when they went
out to play Souder found he was up
against a first-flight game instead of
the game characteristic of those who
play down in the lower brackets in club
tournaments.
For Rigby, playing far better than he
ever had shown before, went over the
first nine holes of that tough Indian
Spring course in two above par for a 81,
something which in his widest dreams
he never had hoped for before. Then.
SO far ahead that only miracle could
stop him, he scored successive par As on
the tenth and eleventh holes, two tough
holes on any mans golf course.
That wiped out Souder by 9 and Z.
His only consolation was that the match
ended close to the club house.
GEORGE T. HOWARD Of Washing
" ton Golf and Country Club has
been trying for years to slow down
his back swing, using every physical and
psychological means to cut down the
speed of that upward swing Of the club
He has had all his wooden clubs en-
graved with the letters "Slo" now, and
hopes by viewing that slogan on the
| top or MS distance malletS, he Will be
| able to cut down that speedy back
swing.
Senior golfers of Chevy Chase Club
are looking forward to another of those
senior-pro tournaments which were such
q success last year. 1t will be held
Monday. In these events the seniors
take professionals for their partners and
play on a combined score, less handicap,
basis. Two were held at Chevy Chase
last year and the seniors got q great
thrill out of them.
nLAYERS who use the West Potomac
I Park course are engaged IN the
qualifying rounds for q match play
tourney. to be staged during October.
The last day for qualifying Is Septem-
ber 80, and already more than so men
and 10 women have turned in their
qualifying scores.
Prizes will go to the winner and run
ner-up in each flight. A prize also will
be awarded the medalist.
WASHINGTON women golfers today
w had evened the score with a group
of Baltimore fair golfers who de-
feated them earlier In the season. De-
spite the absenceao two of the leading
feminine golf stars OF the Capital. the