Evening star., 1933-12-25
BY J. p. GLASS.
RETTY to look at, but they
~ don't mean anything"

/fDRETTY to look at, but they
- don't mean anything
This is a general comment
about holes-in -one and 1t
seems to have been borne out by the
English internationalist in the finals oi
record of Eric Fiddian, the youthful
the Irish open amateur championship
the other day, when he made an ace
of 1913 yards in the morning round and
one Of 205 yards in the afternoon round
but yet was unable to take the cham
pionship from Jack Mclean, a Scotch
man.
However, one-shot holes often do
have a very signtncant meaning, fol
they have decided more than one i'm
vitality In major championships.
The feature that made Fiddian's per-
formance memorable was that he made
his brace OF aces in the final Of cham
pionship, and not the fact that he &C.
cumulated two of them in one match
This was by no means exceptional In
deed, he obtained only one hole-in-one
in 10 holes. This feat has been bettered
on a number OF occasions.
In the Spring of 1927, K. Tanaka, q
japanese resident at Vancouver, B. c.,
obtained two aces during an 1S-hole
round over the Langara course at South
Vancouver.
4 BRITISH amateur by the name OF
Jones-George Duncan, the great
Dit %irIa SrhN tn1i MA
the story, could not recall his first
name-got the same result during q
A third man to achieve the feat was
Aleck Duffy, who came to this country
from Carnoustie, In Scotland, birth.
place Of Macdonald. Aleck and Willie
Smith and many other famous golfers.
Duffy was playing a course at Portland,
Greg, at the time.
Again. according to an account ! had
from John Cowan, the well known New
England professional, j. H. Ball. Gee
ertary of the Charleston, S. c., Country
Club, with which Cowan formerly had
been connected. made two holes-in-one
on consecutive holes.
The famous Mike Brady not only
made two aces in one round but came
near getting a third. Playing in an
exhibition match at the Siasconset
Country Club, Siasconset. Mass. on
Labor day. 1917, he holed a midiron
shot on the 17o-yard eighth hole and
mashie shot on the l50-yard thir-
teenth hole. and then, using q driver,
Tipped the cup on the 250-yard seven
teenth hole. Only an infinitesimal
fraction prevented the third ace. as his
ball stopped two inches from the cup.
PROBABLY the most unusual record
of all is that Of Tom Washington.
professional, who was located
when last saw him at Caldwell, N. j.
On October II. 1927. in the morning,
while giving instructions to two women
golfers at the Overlook Hospital course
at Cedar Grove. N. j., Washington
made a hole -in-one on the 166-yard
fourth hole. That afternoon he went
over to Branch Brook In company with
Morris Sachs. physical director Of the
Overlook Hospital, and holed an ace
on the 295-yard thirteenth hole.
However, this was sort Of postscript
to q previous record. Playing the
Monomnock Inn course, at Caldwell,
with Frank Won Wagner and Frank
Cartley two years before he had made
two aces in an l8-hole round. The Inn
course IS only nu1e-uOlc hlldu. Dull
his aces were canned at the sixth hole,
measuring 179 yards.
A CCORDING to Sandy Armour,
~ brother Of the celebrated Tommy
Armour, three holes-in-one have
been made in one round. He and
Charles Robertson were playing short
course at Millbank, near Edinburgh,
where the longest shot was q mashie
pitch. Three times. says Armour, he
got deuces. But each time Robertson
beat him with an ace. Notwithstand-
ing It was q short course, Robertson's s
feat was miraculous, for his aces aver
age about 100 yards each.
Among those who have gotten two
aces In one day was r. r. Burton, the
oxford University man, who holed one
in the morning and one in the after
noon while playing with the historic
Sandy Herd at Combes Hill near Lon
don, one day.
But to get back to notable victories
in which holes-in-one have figured.
Years ago In Scotland Paddy Doyle.
long q well known professional over
here, played a special match With Davy