Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
BAKED FA|RWAYS
LENGTHEN DRIVES
Mackenzie Likely to Reach
No. II at Congressional.
Duffer in His Glory.
ny WALTER n. MeCALLUM.

TIME season for low scoring
in golf is upon US From
the heights OF Arlington
where the Army Navy
Club sits on a Hilltop overlook
ing the National Capital, to the
woods of Norbeck, Nd, where
the Manor Club nestles In a
grove OF trees. the young men
who do their talking with PIN
splitting second shots and
smooth rolling puts are going
after course records, and get
ting them, too
Roger Peacock's So at Indian Spring
Frank Roeseh's SO 81 washington
Roland MscKenzie's flock Of 68s 81
Congressional. Billy Dcttveilers %
At Manor. Maury Nee's 67s at Column
bia. are just indications Of where
the scoring winds are drifting THESE
Midsummer days. when fast fairways
and smooth putting greens invite the
eolhng gentry TO blast records TO
bits.
To hear Frank Roesch tell it, all
Won have to do Is hit the ball fairly
straight and you can score Frank,
aIvays a modest fellow. talks about
n ike this The fairways are so
Fast all YOU have To do is keep the
hall ktraiRht You don't have to hit
N hard or far" But there is more
10 II than that Fast fairways are
normal around Washington in Md
eummer. and yet there hasn't been
14fh
40 many low scores or scores so low
as they have been this year
Busy on New Course.
~ YER at the Army-Nsvy Club,
where "Wooch" Fielder and his
Greens Committee associates
are busy building the new golf course,
Fielder himself is getting around in
the low los and when Dan Burton,
the club pro. takes as many as 10
he calls II a bad day Peacock figures
10 break par every time he starts at
Indian Spring and just few days
ego Louis Fuchs paraded around In
dian Spring twice with brace of
lis. He wished for Parker Nolan
that day. but Nolan was out OF the
city. Tt seems that Nolan has been
collecting few Of the Fuchs two
bit pieces.
Brides are as common these days as
mosquitoes in the Jersey marshes as
our leading young club swingers set
forth not to match par, but to whip it.
The Summer heat is on. and as the
mercury in the bulb goes up the scores
60 down. These are the glorious
days for the duffer as he knocks the
lively 1894 edition of the golf ball
makers TO spots he never dreamed he
could reach back in the Spring when
fairways had not burned to adamant
hardness. and the expert swinger wal
lops the ball 800 yards and more.
A Real Slugger.
TNAKE guy like Roland Mac
Kenzie, for example. He can
hit golf ball so hard and so
straight that, impossible as IL sounds,
he is going to park one on the eleventh
green at Congressional some day.
Roger Peacock is getting home in
2 at the fifteenth and sixteenth at
the Indian Spring with consistent
regularity, and even the short hitters
find their tee shots in places they
never hoped they could reach. Coll
IA like that around Washington In the
middle of our superheated Summers,
and you can look for something almost
as amazing as Roger Peacoek's 62 any
time now. The ball can be driven
so far there is no practical limit to
scoring.
They pay off these days on the tee
shot and the putt. In the upper
strata Of golf the iron shots, potent
as they are in Spring and Fall, are
not so potent nowadays. In place of
lengthy No, iron shots the big
hitters are playing their seconds with
spades and mashie- niblicks. But you
will find that gent who can knock
the ball long way from the tee regu-
larry is also fairly good with the short
irons. II he cannot get the ball close
with iron shots, he isn't scoring very
well.