Evening star., 1932-07-22
TILT At COLUMBIA
SHORT AND SWEET
BraWner and Johnston Play
Last 9 in 6 Under Par.
Gruver Gets Hot.
BY w. X. McCALLUM.


days of Midsummer when the gol1
sometimes gets as blazing as the
sun and the brides warble gally as
they stroke 'em in from far and
near. 1t all happened the other
dav at Columbia, and Freddie tells
it on himself of how he tried to
put the whip on couple or MS
amateur playmateS at the club
and how they turned on. him and
riddled him with a barrage OF
brides.
Fred started out with E. L. "Nubby'
Jones and Jimmy Johnston. They were
IN he Joined later by John F. BraWner,
one of Coumbia's best amateurs.
Brawner was late and he finally showed
I'D as the other three reached the sew
enth tee. They wrangled around ana
finally made up a match in which Jones
ard Mcleod we're to play Brawner and
Johnston, giving them tWo-hole
handicap in the remaining Il hoies u
be played.
DRAWNER and Johnston we're not IN
ID suited. They took the handicap
and then proceeded to blast that
last II holes wide open. playing them Ill
6 better than par, to cover the last nine
with a better ball of 81 and completely
snow under the best efforts that Jones
and the little doctor could snow.
when the storm was over said FREQ
die. L thought had been in steam
hNc
were simply steaming. When one didn't
get a birdie. the other one did. l got
three brides myself, but l guess l was
lucky to get half with EN-. BRIDES
simply didn't mean anything to those
dudes
Johnston stuck in a birdie at the
seventh and holed a 1O-footer Tor
deuce at the eighth. They lapsed back
to par at the NINTH but came again
with a birdie 3 at the tenth from the
putting blade of John BraWner.
THEIR only lapse from par or better
i than par came at the eleventh. the
hardest hole at Columbia. where
they both took SIS. But they came right
back on the birdie trail at the twelfth,
where Freddie got birdie q and secured
a half. after Brawner had putted for
a and nearly holed it. Brawner then
sank putt for a deuce at the thlr-
teenth, completing the knockout of Nc
Leod. They proceeded through the
fourteenth and fifteenth with simple
pars, but the storm broke again at the
sixteenth, where both BraWner and
Johnston. Just to put in a final punch.
both secured birdie Is. And they broke
up the game with bird on the sew
erteenth, finishing the nine with for
best ball of 81
Guess 1 was lucky to get out alive"
said Freddie. Were those gents hot?
They we're simply burning up. You'll
never again get me out on the golf
course on such day. The golf is too
hot and the weather is too hot Never
have I seen so many brides in enc
SPOT
IT reminds us of the yarn of how Dorie
i c. Gruver put the bee on v. Calvert
Dickey over at Washington not 80
long ago These two friendly golf
enemies get mere kick out of beating
each other than they do out of shooting
par contract when they start out, for |
small wager, said contract usually being
10 or - pars for the course
On this particular day it happened to !
be for II pars. Dickey ccasted along !
serenely getting a par here and there |
but not enough to be safe. Gruver |
meanwhile was having trouble. He had |
five pars going out. with the help of |
birdie at the fifth, which counts for |
two pars under their scoring system. |
Under the same system an eagle, or two |
under par, counts four parS.
Well, they came to the long fifteenth, |
with Dickey apparently out of it and
Gruver with only seven pars under his |
belt. In other words he needed four
pars and birdie to complete his con-
tract. He laid out mighty tee shot at |
the fifteenth, walloped a big spoon shot |
to the green and sank the putt fer the
eagle. Ouch" said Dickey, as he sank
his putt for g. Here we play all the
way around I haven't a chance to get
my contract and Dorie hits me right in
the eye with an eagle for four pars.'
Naturally Gruver got par on the six
teenth to run out his II par contract.
EUNNY how some fellows can gear
L their golf games up from mediocre
performance to one that equals par
when they need to do just that. Jimmie
Corcoran of the Washington Golf and
Country Club is one of those who have
that faculty of improving as the going
gets tougher. He proved it again yes
terday by playing 16 holes of a tough
match in exactly par. when he was
figured the weakest member of the
foursome. in which he and V. c. Dickey
opposed Dr. T. D. Webb and D. c.
Gruver
jimmy said Webb do you know
that you have two pars for TO- They
stood on the seventeenth tee. We'll
here goes nothing" said Corcoran. as
he hooked his tee shot into the ditch
DO you fellows think l am going to be
Handicapped on a 10 basis? Nothing
doing. I'm not 70 shooter" He
finished with brace of 6s for IA
Corcoran had little Davie Thompson,
the Washington pro, that way day be-
fore yesterday. when he paired with
against the best ball of the professional,
giving Thompson | up on each nine.
Davie was around the course in 70
strokes. The handicap gave him a
match play score of 68 and yet he was
licked. The best ball of the other three
was 66.
~ ing tour of the Orient. during which
ne PLAYED many courses in Out-0f-
spots, Capt Kendall j. Fielder
OF the Army tied the record for the
Army Navy Country Club course yester-
day, scoring 70 for that hazardous lay
out. Mai. E. A. Noyes scored 10 last
week. Playing with Capt. Fielder was
Mai. E. NJ. Robertson. Fielder was out
in "a and back in So. The professional
course record is SO, held by Arthur B.
Thorn of the Woodmont Club
The match at Woodmont between
teams of married and single men has
been indefniately postponed. So many
players are out of the city and the
weather has been so warm that the
committee has decided on an indefinite
postponement.
NAVY RACKETERS AHEAD.
Navy Department racketers yester-
day won 5-to-0 victory over the Post