Evening star., 1933-03-11
FAILS TWICE WHEN
NEAR RECORD GOAL
Freddie Needs Only Par on
Last a Holes Each Time,
but Goes Far Over.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

-REDDIE MCLEOD, Columbia's S
- little golf doctor" who has
cured as many links ills as
any living teacher, has a
minor worry these days. His ruddy
brow, unworried by the banking
holiday and inability to get cash,
is furrowed because, of all things,
the former national open title
holder can't finish a round of golf
around 66 or g.
Most folks would be concerned be-
cause they couldn't break 100 or couldn't
shatter IS, according to their respective
skill. but Freddie, who has played the
Columbia course any number OF times
in better than 68, Is all bothered because
he cannot finish well enough to bust
that mark
Twice within the past week. notwith-
81 nding from-ideal weather condi-
ticns. Freddie has had a chance to
wa.'co tie ball around Columbia in 66
or better. And each time he has gone
up above 10 by bad finish. Both
times he has needed the par of 4, 3,
3. 4 for 66, and both times he has
gone to 10 and above. Time after time
over the past fortnight Freddie has
played seven holes of the first nine in
two or three better than par, needing
only a strong finish to get out in 80 or
80, and each time he has finished with
q 4 and for 35 or worse
IT'S all too bad really a doleful con-
GitiCn. when you consider that most
of the golfers at Columbia consider
they have done we'll If they play either
nine IN As and the entire course in 90.
But for Freddie it's real tragedy, for
Freddie predicates his matches on the
hope that he will shoot the course In II
or better. And almost every time he
has started in recent days he has had
the chance to go far below that mark
Take his round two days ago. for ex-
ample. Out in "a, Freddie came to the
fifteenth hole needing T. 3, 3, for a &c.
Par on the seventeenth is g. because
the hole is being played from the lower
tee and can be reached with a well hit
spoon or brassie shot. In that round
Freddie put his tee shot into the bunker
at the fifteenth and wound up with 6,
following by attempting a chip shot
from a bunker at the sixteenth which
left the ball right in the sand. He
L.
the same story. except that his big
score came on the seventeenth. Freddie
is really to be pitied. The pocr fellow
simply cannot go over II or 72, even
though he looks to be scoring a 68 or
better. But I guess I'll get all my
shots clicking some day socn," opines
the Columbia pro- and then may gst
down there around 66 or So"
" c. DICKEY, the big chip and
v. putt man from the Washington
Golf and Country Club wants
Milton r. Westcott to declare a mora
torium on putter shots from bunkers.
Playing with Westcott the other day
Dickey reached the green at the fifth
hole with two well-played shots, after
watching Westcott miss three in a row,
the third of which deposited the West
colt ball in a bunker at the green
But "Milt" is another Of those golfing
gents who never gives up. He took a
putter out of his bag and calmly rolled
hole for a par A. Dickey took three
puts and to lose the hole. Moral:
Never give up a hole because it looks
lost The other fellow might have a
brainstorm.
A large sector of the Washington
club is following the varying fortunes
of D. c. Gruver and Dickey in their
challenge match. Dickey broke into a
long lead early in the 50-game series,
but Gruver has pulled up and now
leads by two games. The loser must
pay small wager and at the same time
must write the winner a letter pro-
claiming his superiority on the golf
course.