Evening star., 1932-11-17
HANDICAP AFFAIR
WILL LAST WEEK
Entrant May Play as Many
Rounds as He Wishes at
a Dollar a Turn.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

III WHICH dIG O1
the Maryland State Golf
Association land what
local club in Maryland isn't a
member) are going to do another
bit for sweet charity during the
coming week if the plans of the
association work out as expected.
The association today announced a
"Thanksgiving charity handicap tourna-
ment" to be held among the 30-odd
member clubs of the association, start
ing next Saturday and running for
eight days, with all the proceeds OF the
ST entry fee each round to be turned
over to charity. The same stunt was
pulled off last year for the State un-
employment fund.
Prizes will be awarded in three classes
among golfers using the Maryland State
Association handicap card. Those not
having handicap lcards will be assigned
a temp ,rary handicap by the club pro-
fessional The tourney is to oe played
at ell clubs during the week, and each
player may play as many rounds as he
wishes, paying an entry fee Of 81 for
each round.
This is an excellent opportunity for
tbs. golfers to contribute their bit to-
ward relieving present conditions" the
association states in its announcement
of the tourney THE entire amount will
be used for relief purposes in the Sec
ton in which the tournament is held"
Local clubs which are members of the
Maryland association are Chevy Chase,
Columbia, Manor, Beaver Dam, Indian
Spring, Kenwood. Congressional, Argyle,
Burning Tree and Woodmont
WHAT was the finest shot you saw
w during the playing of the Kenwood
Open over the last week end?
Among so many fine shots by fine golf
e-s there must have been a great many
great shots as that field was led to the
wire by the pleasant-faced and nkable
Horton Smith Two of them stand out
a5 the greatest we have ceen In many a
cay. They were made by Smith and by
z. Phillip Perkins, the tall red-faced
B-itisher who recently married a ~ister
CT Peggy Hopkins Joyce and brought his
bride clong to Washington with him
Indeed, among the fair golf fans the
new Mrs. Perkins was an even greater
attraction at the tourney than her hus-
band.
Perkins made his great shot at the
seventeenth in the second round, when
the cutting northwest wind was at its
giving the boys spasms of fright. Here
most of the real golfers played No. 8
and No. irons to keep the ball down
in the wind. The others used mashies
and put it up where the wind played
all sorts of prank5 with it. Perkins is
used to playing into wind. He learned
that stunt in the days when, as an
amateur, he was about the finest simon
pure in Britain. On that seventeenth
tee, with a half gale whipping into his
bespectacled face. he took out a short
No. iron. He literally played run
Up shot to that tightly trapped green
The ball, struck low and true. hit lust
of the corner CT the right-hand trap,
curled around on the green and snug
gled up four feet from the hole At no
time did that ball get more than 20
feet of the ground.
Under the prevailing conditions the
" shot was something to marvel at
And he played It Just that way. His
wrist and body action showed what he
was trying to do. The fact that he
missed the putt meant little, for he had
played greet sllot to get close. On
that same green q few moments later
Hagen took four puts.
The second great shot came from
Horton Smith ct the par 5 twelfth. a
hole where few CT the boys took the
chance of carrying the ponds in front
Of the green with their second SHOTS.
Most Of them played short, hoping to
get pitch shot dead. Horton strode
down the twelfth fairway two strokes
in front Of Denny Shute in the last
round, his teeth already sunk into the
winning slice Of the prize money, and
carefully played his second shot short
of the ponds. At this same hole Shute
had gotten birdie and Horton needed
a to keep that two-stroke edge. A
would do. but one-stroke margin is
too slim with six holes to go. So the
tall, young Missourian stood back there
on that hillside with a mashie niblick
in his hand, knowing he must get q
70 hold his two-shot lead.
He might have done anything. He
might have gone into the ponds, over
pitched the green half hit the shot, or
anything. But there, in that crucial
spot, he won the golf tournament with
one Of the really great shots of the
day. He cut the shot so fine that it
took one hop broke in toward the hole,