Evening star., 1932-11-09
SHOOTS KENWOOD
IN ONE UNDER PAR
Younqster Back in Game He
Played Before Breaking
Arm Last Winter.
BY w. r. M'CALLUM.
TIME Joplin Ghost still can lay
'em up against distant pin
with the best of them.

ME Joplin 1ilOot Sliil Sdll Icy
'em up against distant pin
i with the best Of them.
Horton Smith, the long,
lean, likable Missouri youngster,
Just turned %, and just now get
ting back into the swing of the
game he used to play before a
broken arm forced him to join the
galleryites last Winter, is back on
the crest of the deadly game
which won him a flock of tourna-
ments during the Winter OF 1929
1880 and some day will bring him
the national open crown.
Horton did not play in last years Ma
tional Capital open tourney at Ken
wood, but he will be out there this year,
delighting a pop-eyed collection OF gal
leryites with the smoothness and utter
ease of his game. And to prove Just
how fast the Smith youngster can go,
he walloped a gclf ball around the
soggy Kenwood layout yesterday In 81
whacks, one under par for the course
over fairways that were so slow the
ball got little or no roll and putting
greens were soft as mush.
HORTON SMITH is the only man l
j i have seen who has reached the
first green at Kenwood under pres
ent ground conditions in two shots. He
did it twice yesterday. getting his long
lean frame behind pair OF high flying
wooden shots which left him puts for
S;yS.1r 1a y,lo
Playing a match with Al Houghton,
Kenwood pro, the pair finished all
square. both scoring SO for the course
At the end OF the round both chorused,
Il wish we could save that one for
next Saturday We wasted lot OF good
shots today. Wish we could have 'em
again in the tournament
The Smith youngster has had tough
luck. Probably the finest shot-maker
among the younger group OF profess
sional golfers developed in this coun-
try In the last few years. ne went along
like champion through the Southern
tournaments two Winters ago. FREQ
Mcleod described his chipping and
putting as uncanny;:. He KNOCKS S .em :,
so close he hasn't anything LETT,
Freddie said
THEN last Winter, just at the start
i of what appeared to be another
Smith campaign, the youngster broke
his arm. No, he doesn't use flre-water.
I know that. Nor does he have any OF
the lesser vices. 1t was purely an acci-
dent. but 1t kept him out OF all the
Winter events and only now Is he get
ting back into the swing OF the game
If he PLAYS golf this Winter in the
tournament like he showed at Kenwood.
the Smith bank account will not be IN
such bad shape, come next Spring. He
can lay 'em in the groove like the
Horton Smith of two years back, ana
he'll take a lot of beating when the
chase for that $7O0 first money opens
next Saturday morning.
The Kenwood Club announced today
that Mai Gen. Paul B. Malone. COM
manding the Sd Corps Area. will present
the prizes next Sunday afternoon. Ad-
ditional entries received were: Bob
Barnett, Chevy Chase; John Flattery,
Allview C. c.; Nelson S. Halsey, Sher-
wood Forest Jack Harris. unattached;
Dick Hubbard, amateur. Indian Spring;
H. j. Johnst L. Cumberland; Tell
johnson, Hazelton, Pa: Gene Larkin,
Chevy Chase; j. D. Mackie, Inwood
C. c.: Harry Markell, Reading, Pa:
Dermot Nee, Manor Club amateur;
Tom O'Connor. Bloomfield, N. j.: Joe
O'Hare, Congressional amateur; G. j.
Richardson. Indian Spring amateur. and
Andrew j. Walker, Congressional anna
teur.
MISS ELIZABETH HARRIS. promi-
1sl nent woman attorney of Washing
ton and member of the Kenwood
Golf end Country Club, is the choice
Of the Nominating Committee for the
presidency of the Women's District Golf
Association Other candidates chosen
by the committee for the election to
be held on December | are: FIRST wee
president, Mrs Norman B. Frost, Co
lumbia: second vice president. Mrs.
Betty P. Meckley, Indian Spring: sec
retary. Mrs. Richard N. Sutton. WASH
ington: treasurer, Mrs. Alma Won
STEINER.
The Nominating Committee is COM
posed of Mrs j. s. Upham, Army War
College: Mrs w. F. Holtman. Army
Navy Country Club; Mrs. Robert G.
Mitchell, Beaver Dam Country Club;
Mrs. H. r. Quinter, Columbia Country
Club, and Mrs Frank r. Keefer, Chevy
Chase Club. Mrs. Keefer is the IN
cumbent. !.
The final tournament Of the year Of
the association will be played next
tuesday at Indian Spring for the Times
cup and is in effect a tournament for
high handicap players. Although the
event is open to all women contestants
around Washington, only those with
handicaps between 10 and 81 Will be
eligible for prizes. Players with handl-
caps over IA will start at the tentn
tee. An entry fee of SO cents Will be
charged and the tourney will start at
$50 m.
THAT final handicap tourney OF the
i Maryland State Golf Association
at Five Farms yesterday was al
most purely a Baltimore affair, for
washington players did not attend In
any number. Only one. j. M. Palmer
of Beaver Dam. returned a card.
Palmer did 9o-16-74 in the heavy
going. The tourney was won by ROD.
ert Mclean. jr., former president OF
the association, with card OF 10.
That national amateur championship
at Five Farms last September not only
was a fine show. but 1t justified the
prediction that it would not finish IN
the red on the fiscal end OF the deal.
The Baltimore country club has lust
sent to the United States Coli Asso-
ciation a check for $4,000 representing
the share due the U. s. G. A. from
the gate after all expenses have been
maid Good crowds during all the GAYS