Evening star., 1933-01-15
HHE next time a couple of golf
ing gents of the Washington
Golf and Country Club knock

Golf and Country Club knock
their pitch shots within few
feet Of the hole they won't consider
that hole in the bag until after the
putting is all over. And are the faces
of v. Calvert Dickey and Dorie c.
Gruver red. as they contemplate how
their playmate-Dr. T. D. Webb-the
club champion, wiped their eyes when
it looked as If Webb was about to take
a licking.
1t all happened on the short
eleventh hole at Washington, hole
where lot of aces have been made.
Gruver nearly got an ace on this oc-
casion, hitting his tee shot to within
yard of the hole. For time it
looked as If the ball might go down
for the ace which would have won
him pot of money, but it didn't.
Then Dickey stepped up and walloped
his ball also within yard of the cup.
Webb barely got on the left corne- of
the green, 80 feet from the hole. You
wouldn't have given plugged nickel
for the chances of the estimable club
title holder with Gruver and Dickey
so close. Surely one of them would
make deuce, and probably both, for
both Of them are good putters. But
Webb also is a mighty putter. He
has broken more hearts at Washington
by holing a lengthy putt in a pinch
than any man IN the club. He stepped
up to that 30-footer and canned it.
That was a nice little short putt
he remarked as he picked his ball
out OF the cup. Then Gruver and
Dickey, in succession, stepped up and
blew their short ones.
THERE'S feud on between Dickey
i and Gruver-a little, friendly feud
that Is running along through the
Winter, and involves only matches won
and lost. To date Dickey is head man
through series Of victories, but Gruver
AYERS he can beat his opponent and
is planning dark days ahead for Dickey.
The latter, by the way, is the most
confirmed golf addict at Washington.
He plays every day when golf is at all
possible, and, like Jim Baines at Colum-
bia, figures to play at least 300 games a
year without playing 36 holes day.
You could almost set your watch by
timing Dickey's passage around the cor
ner of Fifteenth street and New York
avenue on a schedule designed to
bring him at the Washington club at
IL o'clock. And after the game he
always leaves the club in time to re-
turn to his business in northeast Wash
ington by $50. He won't disrupt this
schedule, either, for any circumstance.
Many times he has been forced by lack
OF time to quit at the sixteenth hole,
and, like a good sport, Dickey always
has paid of if the match was even.
Quite a remarkable fellow, this Cal
vert Dickey, if only for his quick i'm
proVement in the game, and his love
for golf.
Out Congressional way PaSe Hufty,
~ who won the club championship
last year after three years of non
competition, is practicing almost daily
nowadays in order to brush up his
game for the tournaments of 1893
Hufty has overcome the jirlx of other
years-his bad putting-and is hitting
the ball as well as he ever did in the
days when he was one of the top-notch
tournament players about the Capital.
We saw Jim Maloney practicing wood
en- club shots at Congressional, too, on
the heels Of bad week end, during
which Jim is reported to have shot q
score somewhere above 80 and to have
dropped hat full of dollars in doing
1t. Ordinarily you can figure Jim to
be somewhere around 80, and when he
goes up to 80 and above, it gets ex-
pensive, particularly against men like
Jack McCarron and Sandy Armour.
u ILL HARDY, club maker at Chevy
- Chase, is planning a little trip to
Miami Beach to visit Bob Barnett
for few days, If business in the Chevy
Chase golf shop slacks up next month.
Bill, you know, is the most ardent sup
porter Of wooden shafted golf clubs
about Washington. along with Barnett,
and is constantly kept busy making up
sets of wooden-shafted clubs for Chevy
Chase golfers. You couldn't get Hardy
to subsmribe to the idea that steel shafts
are better than wood and as a result
Of his masterful club making there are
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