Evening star., 1933-01-19
MLE0D SHOOTS 70
/ But CLYDE CASHES
Columbia Amateur Improves
Game by Adding Three
Inches to Sticks.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

M course like Columbia in
Y Y 10 strokes you would eX-
pect to win a golf match,
wouldn't you?
Any time you stroke the ball
around such layout as that of
the Columbia Country Club in
even par, you would normally ex-
pect to come home with the
bacon. Freddie Mcleod, the Co.
lumbia pro, thought so too, but he
reckoned without the fighting
spirit and shot-making ability of
Clyde B. Asher, president of
Columbia in 1881 and 1882.
Freddie was giving Asher 3, 4 and S
up On graded scale and the former
club president took the popular little
Columbia pro for every bet he made.
Asher is playing the game of his life
right now. Always an experimenter
with new ideas for improving his golf
game, and one who tries out different
types of shots and swings, the former
club prexy, one of Washington's lead
ing amateurs, believes he has found
the answer to a golfers dream BY
frightening the shafts of all his clubs
He has added several inches to the
shafts Of his wooden clubs until now
they measure As inches in length from
toe to shaft end, and also has added to
his kit complete new set Of wooden
Shafted iron clubs in the model so pop
u.ar nowadays.
WITH these heightened wooden clubs
w and the new set of irons Asher
Is whacking the golf ball around
Columbia anywhere between "a and rs
almost every time he starts. With the
old wooden clubs Of about AZ inches he
had to bend over the ball. Now, with
the elongated shafts he can stand up
straight to the ball, and Is getting more
distance with his usual straightnesS
Asher always has been an exceptionally
fine putter. Anything from 10 feet
down looks easy to him and with the
added distance he Is getting from the
tee he is tough nut for any Of Co.
lumbia's golfers to crack
You could have gone for many day
ard not seen a better hole played than
the sixteenth that Asher and Mcleod
played two days ago. Asher had the
honor and played a spade shot within
feet of the hole, a sure birdie 2 for
such a good putter. Then Freddie
stepped up, with the match all square
and came within inches Of knocking
the ball into the hole for an ace. An
other hop and Freddie would have
scored l. for the ball was hit dead
on line with the pin and came to
stop only inches chort. They split
the hole in birdie deuces.
TWO elections CT more than casual
=, interest to Warrington golfers are
to b. held tc--,nrrow nigh. ct the
Congressional Court~y Club end the
Baltimore Country Club. The meeting
at Congressional will be the general
meeting of the club for the purpose of
electing 13 members of the board and
discussion of other club business. Of
fcerS are to be chosen later by the new
ay elected board
The meeting at the Baltimore Coun-
try Club will be the annual get-together
OF the Maryland State Golf Association,
at which two Washington golfers are
slated to become officers of the associa-
ton. William Parker Chg BilD Hall of
Baltimore Is scheduled to become presi-
dent Of the influential State organiza-
tion. and Robert Stead, jr., Of the Chevy
Chase Club to become frs, vice presi-
dent. and be in !ire for the presidency
rex year. George p. James of the c.
lurl5,a Court-u Club, vc'eren. Cof
Committee cEai~mcn + S-aa1u-ed to
beccn2 = vice President CT the State
:sociat.cn representing the Warrington
district. Other officers scheduled to be
chosen are: william D. Waxter, jr.,
Baltimore, vice president for the Balti-
more district; Murray w. Crane, Hag-
erstown. vice president for the Western
Maryland district; Nathan H. Kaufman,
Baltimore, vice president and treasurer;
John e. Hurst, Baltimore, secretary.
These names were placed in nomina-
ton by q committee composed Of H.
Prescott Galley president Of the Chevy
Chase Club; Hayward E. Boyce, presi-
dent Of the Baltimore Country Club,
and John F. Davies, president of the
Rolling Road Golf Club
The association will vote on a change
in the constitution limiting membership
in the organization only to clubs which
own or lease their own golf courses AMI
which require their members to pay
minimum dues of $40 year. This
change, If carried. will bar from men,
bership pseudo-clubs organized at the
pubic golf courses in the State Of Mary
land.
THE professionals who gathered in
L the Chevy Chase golf shop yester-
day to see Jimmy" Gallagher Of
the Professional Golfers Association of
America put on an exhibition of mod
ern club making certainly got an eye