Evening star., 1933-01-23
CAPITAL BLESSED
FOR WINTER PLAY
Traffic on Layouts Here
Equals Boom Years.
BaImy Weather Helps.
BY w. r. McCALLUM.

i National Capital, but to
date they haven't been dis
covered north of the Carolinas.
For many Winters those addicts
who talk their sport with flying
divots and curling puts have had
next to nothing to complain about
by way Of weather, but the pres
ent brand of golfing weather beats
all previous Winters by a full
brasSie shot.
Since those two snowfalls back in
December, before Christmas, when snow
covered the ground for the better part
of three weeks, there has been a steady
succession OF Gays OF high temperature,
sun, and conditions, virtually perfect
Tor the game of go.f. Indeed, not in
the allegedly fine weather Of April and
May have conditions been better for
playing golf. Ever since Christmas the
weather has been ideal. Only a few
cold days have interfered and these
nave been succeeded by such fine
weather that even the gent who packs
his clubs away in motn balls in No.
Vember and VOWS not to go out again
until Spring has been coaXed out by
the Springhke temperatures.
THE golf courses are in first-class
i shape, too. Not in many Winters
have We seen them in such perfect
condition. The only possible drawback
Is that putting greens cannot be kept
as true as they are in Midsummer,
when it is possible to keep them
&c IL ir, ~
ter. for to Put heavy roller on Winter
putting greens would make them so
fast that putting would be almost i'm
possible. 1t may be little early to
start Dragging about WashingSon's Win
ter golflng climate, but SO far this Win
ter it has been ideal. Why go to Pine
hurst, or Augusta or even further South
when the midday temperature is up in
the Cos? Why go anywhere but out on
your own golf course when conditions
are so perfect as they have been lately?
We are sure to have more real Winter,
but it cannot be SO long now. The
history of Washington Winters is that
February is a good golf month and
March furnishes fine weather. barring
the winds that usually accompany the
third month of the year And by the
way, have you noticed the almost COM
plete absence of wind this Winter? In
every sense of the word. the last three
weeks or so have been perfect for play
ing golf. Why go anywhere else than
Washington to play your golf?
A ND have the golfers flocked to play?
"A BY the thousands. literally. every
week end and every day during the
week. 1t would be no exaggeration to
sey that, depression or no depression,
there he's been as much golf played
around Washington this year as in the
boom years of the previous decade.
Every club has its regulars" who
play golf every day if the game is at all
possible. But more and more these fine
days the clubs have been seeing the
spasmodic golfers-those who come out
only occasionallv-being transformed
into regulars. The weather brings em
out. and what weather it has been. A
little soggy under foot, but so mild over
head that it brings back memories of
sunny days in Carolina Georgia and
even Florida, without the heat of the
latter State in Winter. AS a Winter
resort, Washington comes fairly close to
taking rank with your better known
and better advertised places.
JUST to show how many folks go for
=. this Midwinter golf. there were
more than 125 registrations for golf
yesterday at Beaver Dam, and 80 people
played in the blind bogey event staged
by Cliff Spencer, the club pro. -Four
tied for first place, with net cards of II.
They were: Eugene Fly, 102-25-77;
Martin F. Mccarthy, 83-6-77; H. G.
Gibson 1O7-30-77, and Mrs Gertrude
Strong, 132-55-77. All the other clubs
had large turn-outs, despite an early
morning fog which hung over Washing
ton until midafternoon.
Over at Indian Spring DR.. L. S. Otell,
the club champion, holed mashie nib
lick shot for an eagle deuce on the par
fourth hole. The hole plays about $40
yards from the tee now in use. Larry
hit long tee shot up the middle and
pitched to the green. He found the
ball in the cup.
MANAGERS at Rock Greek and East
1Vl Potomac Parks reported registra-
ttions neared the peak of Midwin-
ter play More than 400 used the Rock
Greek Park courses, while nearly 700
used the four layoutS in East Potomac
Park
Over at Washington, the golfers who
play bridge are getting ready for the
club team bridge championship, which
will start next Wednesday at 8 o'clock.
Eight pairs are to qualify for the finals,
which will be played at duplicate, with
the first session to be held on Monday,
January 30 Cups will be awarded to
each member of the championship pair
and to the runners-up The tourney will
be run off by committee composed OF
D. G. Gruver, chairman; A. B. Gait,
r. p Brooke and O L. VeerhOff