Evening star., 1932-04-21
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

- YER hear of a fine right-handed
H golfer turning around and play
ing left-handed? 1t has been
done the other way, from left
to right, with fair results, but when a
right handed player turns around the
other way, 1t is unusual to say the least.
That is what Freddie Mcleod, the am
bidextrous little wonder worker of Co
lumbia, plans to do in a match to be
played soon against Fred Towers, one
of his amateur playmates at Columbia.
The two FredS have been playing golf
together for several years, with the
honors about even, although Mcleod, OF
course, is generous in his handicap
allowance to his namesake.
To diversity the program OF 70s and
Ills that Mcleod has been shooting with
such regularity at Columbia he now
proposes to turn around the other way,
borrow a set of left-handed clubs and
play Towers left-handed And the odds
will not all be with Towers, either, for
Fred Mcleod is good left-handed
golfer. With a little practice in the
swing from the port side Freddie could
make any of the steller southpaW golf
ers about the city step along at fast
pace to win, even though he has played
right-handed for 40 years or more and
has grooved his swing from the right
side.
WHENEVER Freddie gives lesson
w to one of the left-handers at
Columbia, in order to bring out
the points in the golf swing which he
is teaching, he moves around to the
port side, and shows his pupil how to
in onnrnVnH left
handed fashion. And he wades into a
golf ball from the port side just as he
does from the right side, with far
flying accuracy and neatness of stroke.
Towers shoots a game of golf in the
low 80S with an occasional dip into the
high 70s, and where Fred Mcleod S
game from the right side would ordi-
narily be around 70 or II, he figures he
will score 78 or so from the port side.
1T should be a. lot of fun" Mcleod
says, and think I have better swing
from the left side than from the right.
Give me a little practice and I'll take
on some of those old-time professionals
swinging from the left side, and if
can putt perhaps I'll be able to hold
my own"
WITH Donald Woodward and Miller
w B. Stevinson holding the Cummings
Trophy, emblematic of the two
man team championship at Columbia,
a number of other best ball combina-
tions are angling for whack at the
present title holders. Woodward and
STEVENSON have won two contests Ghe
only two played for the Cummings
Trophy. and so far this year they have
not been formally challenged But
Everett Eynon and Tommy Bones are
considering shooting a challenge at
them; W. Carlton Evans is looking for
a partner and shortly the holders of
the trophy will be out there battling to
hold the cup.
THOSE tricky putting greens of the
l. Washington Golf and Country
Club. as fast as a razor back shoat
and as full of curves as a gangster's
mind, thWarted most Of the competitors
in the Phyllis Keeler Miller Memorial
Trophy tourney Yesterday but Mrs. A.
S. Gardiner of Columbia overcame the
putting linX to score 100 gross and net
of 80 to win the trophy Mrs. Gardiner
played with handicap of 18, the maxi
mum in the competition, and barely
nosed out Mrs. J. Marvin HAYNES, the
Middle Atlsntic champion. whose net
of 83 stood up for low for about 20
minutes
Although she did not win the main
prize in the tourney staged by the
Women's District Golf Association, Mrs.
HAYNES had the double honor of regis
tering the best gross score and Of being