Evening star., 1933-03-17
OS ANGELES, Calf, March IT.
Casual spectators and other golfers


hanging around the Brentwood
course Tuesday afternoon sud-
denly began to view with concern, If
not with alarm, the spectacle Of Leo
Deigel, well known Caliente profession
al, playing shot after shot while stand
ing on his right foot alone. But nothing
had gone wrong with the inside Of Leo's
head, o. with his left leg. He was
simply trying out . round on the right
leg q the result Of . little discussion
we had earlier. Leo was telling me
about . sprained left ankle which tenn
porazily made 1t uncomfortable and even
painful to swing at golf ball with any
pressure on that foot.
II tried playing . few holes with all
my weight on the right foot" said Leo.
Il didn't hold the left foot clear OH the
turf, but I didn't put any pressure on
1t. just touched the ground enough to
help balance me. And hit some re-
markably good shots. really believe
I can play . whole round close to 70
standing on the right foot alone"
So pretty soon Leo had match on
his hands-on his right foot, you might
say. He had several matches. He had
one with me to start with and it spread
to Howard Jones, Trojan foot ball coach
and Frank Craven and Braven Dyer.
We arranged 1t for Brentwood. Leo was
to play every shot standing on the right
foot alone. puts and all. We were to
play standing on all the feet We pos
sessed. It was separate match with
each.
BRENTWOOD did all it could to help
ID the coalition. There was stiff
breeze blowing at all times, hard
enough to make 1t difficult to stand on
one leg without doing anything else
like hitting golf ball. We started on
the second nine, playing the tenth hole
a. our fryt, and this Is the way Leo
led of.
First, at my request, he hit q drive
standing on both feet, for the camera.
It was Q fair sort Of drive-say $50
yards, with little fade to it. Then,
with the camera again In action, Leo
hit drive to start the round, standing
on his right foot alone. It went 20
yards farther than the first shot, right
down the middle. It must have been
270 yards-perhaps q few more. He
smacked his second shot on to the
green and took two puts for his par 4,
standing on one foot and looking like
an adjutant bird with the stomach
ache, with that queer elbow spread he
uses In putting.
yards. Leo's mashie shot nearly hit
the nag, the ball stopping IL feet past.
He nearly sank . deuce and got an
easy par 8.
Leo had q bit Of trouble with the
puts at the thirteenth, where he pro-
PEELED the ball more than 500 yards
with q drive and brassie, the second
shot curling into q bunker. He chipped
out-sand Is no footing for one foot
and q hard Swing-and took three
puts. But he reached the home hole,
the ninth Of the round. just four
strokes above As, and then he seemed
to settle into the new style.
He played the next 10 holes In exactly
40 strokes, starting with fine at the
eighteenth. -Four times on the last
nine he missed puts Of around IL feet
for brides He had no good luck at
all, and he made only one mistake. His
second shot with q No. iron missed
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Leo was hitting so long q ball that
at the nth hole, Of $50 yards, he took
an iron on his second shot to play
short Of the deep barranca in front of
the green. He was nearly in the chasrn,
at that: pitched on 4 yards from the
| nag, and Just missed q birdie 4. His
putting was not what you. would call
brilliant, but It certainly was no worse
than at Wiltshire two days before In
the big match. Incidentally, his score,
76, at Wiltshire, was duplicated, playing
from one foot, at Brentwood in q hard
wind. He did the second nine In 40
playing that side first, and the other
side in 80.
Leo's range in all shots astounded US
His driving, always on the long side
was at least as long as usual. At the
sixth hole, Howard Jones used q No. 4
iron, and hit good firm shot. Leo
spanked . mashie just past the pin
and narrowly missed his putt for 2
On holes Of $40 and $50 yards, Lee