Evening star., 1932-03-18
TAKES FIRM HOLD
AT INDIAN SPRING
Harvey Succeeds KidweII as
Chairman-Three From DC.
Enter at Pinehurst.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

~ ceeded J. Monro Hunter
as golf professional at the
Indian Spring Golf Club, has
taken over his new duties and
now is in entire charge of the
golf shop at the Silver Spring
Club. After four years of service
as caddie master and assistant
pro, Diffenbaugh has been made
professional at the club, succeed
ing his former boss, and is taking
hold of his new job in a manner
that, his friends say, bespeakS
success for him as full-fledged
pro.
Only last Monday the new Indian
Spring pro stepped out and outscored
a field of Baltimore and Washington
pros in Middle Atlantic pro tourney
at Rolling Road Two days later he
took over the professional berth at
Indian Spring.
One of Diffenbaugh's first moves was
to rearrange the golf shop at Indian
Spring and his next was to step out
on the practice tee and give several
lessons His assistant is George Loose
of Milwaukee, who came to Washing
ton with Hunter back in 1928.
So all the golf activities at Indian
Spring are in different hands this
year. Diffenbaugh is in charge of the
golf shop and j. William Harvey, jr.,
one of the best Of the golfers of the
club, is in charge of the Golf Com
mittee. Harvey succeeds Harry H.
Kidwell, who had a successful term
as Golf Committee chairman and re-
signed because of business pressure.
Within a couple of weeks Harvey eX-
poets to appoint his committee asso-
ciates, and expects at the same time
to announce the golf schedule at the
club and a new Women's Golf Com
mlttee.
A T least three local golf profession
n ais are to play in the North and
South open tournament at Pine
hurst next week, where one of Amer
ica's most lucrative golf tournaments
will be played on Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. On Monday, Fred Nc
Leod of Columbia, Sandy Armour Of
Congressional and Al Houghton of
Kenwood expect to leave for the Caro-
lima resort, to get in two days prac-
tive before the opening of the North
and South event on Thursday,
March "a.
The Pinehurst event is an invitation
affair and the purse totals $1,000, a
very nice slice Of money for the boys
who say it with whistling brassie shots
and accurate puts on those smooth
sand putting green's at Pinehurst.
Witty Cox won the tournament last
year, signalling his first big-time VIC
tory in tournament competition. Tom
my Armour was only a shot or two
back, and If the tales Of Tommy's
grimness toward golf this Winter are
true, the Black Scot may cop the Pine
hurst tourney. Tommy, according to
those who have watched him this
Winter, Is training seriously for the
coming Northern golf season and the
defense of his British open title.
Sandy Armour tells us that Grant
land Rice says he never has seen Tom
my so serious about getting in condi-
tion for winning tournaments as he
is this year. Further than that, Rice
says that Tommy is putting better than
ever before.
(WHICH is all that the Black Scot ever
Wv lacked to become the worlds great
est professional star For many
years we have firmly believed that
Tommy Armour is the finest performer
In the professional ranks in the world
up to the putting green. But there
Tommy has been an ordinary performer
Give him Jones' ability to knock the
ball in the hole with consistent regular
ity from 6 feet and he would, in our
judgment, set up record no other pro
has attained. Furthermore, we believe
that Tommy knows more about hitting
golf ball than most Of the pros. He
has more shots at his command than
half dozen of his professional brethren
put together but his Indifferent putting
has ruined him in the past
Tommy may reverse that last years
standing at Pinehurst if his putting
holds up. But don't overlook Fred Nc
leod. The little Scot from North Ber-
wick is playing better just now than he
ever has played, and even though he
hasn't been able to play since the snow
fall Of nearly two weeks ago, he still re-
tains that magic touch around the put
ting green which has earned him a dozen
scores in the COS over Columbia this
Winter. Freddie has a habit of doing
well at Pinehurst, where he knows every
trick Of the layout and knows the touch
of those sand green's He won the North
and South back in 1921.
CTRANGE how that snow hangs on at
- the golf courses scattered around the
Capital While all the courses can
be played, most Of them are not worth
playing unless you figure that putting
on snow is real golf. Indian Spring has
less snow today than most OF the
private layouts, while, strangely enough,
the public courses at Rock Creek and
East Potomac Parks have less snow on
them than the private courses. The
fact is that the public courses offer the
best golf Just now, In their practically
snowless condition. Over at Washing
ton lots of snow still clings to the
northern slopes, Congressionals rolling
fairways have a lot Of snow on them
and Columbia and Chevy Chase stiu
have lot of snow on the fairways.