Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-07-31
100 YARDER MADE
100 TIMES IN ONE
No. II at Washington Rated
Second Among Capitals
Golf Set.upS.
by wALTER r. McCALLUM.

BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.
w WHAT golf hole around
\ a Washington has yielded the
w most aces9
There isn't much queS-
ton about it, if you view the records
over the past few years since the Rock
Greek Park course was first blasted
out of the woods and valleys up there
in the uptown park
The hole that takes the cake for
aces is the short fifth, l00-yarder
played from a towering cliff overlook
ing the green located in a bend OF
the creek below, normally mashie-
niblick shot. which looks so close you
could almost kick the ball on the
green.
No one at Rock Creek Park has
kept a record of the number Of aces
made on the hole, but both Harry
Graham and Ed Burns estimate the
number of holes in one made on this
din1inutive affair in the approximate
" 10 years it has been in play have
totaled far more than a hundred
And the hole isn't in use all the time
The green gees bad every year and it
is closed to play for a month or SO
until 1t comes back into condition.
Washington's 18th Productive.
THE fifth at Rock Greek must out
strip by a ratio of something like
five TO one any other prolific breeder
of aces around the Capital. But in
second place without much question
is the eleventh at Washington, shot
of about l40 yards played under SIM
liar conditions. Here again the tee
shot is played from an elevated tee
to a green far below and again the
chief hazard is water. For a time
the aces came thick and fast at the
eleventh at Washington as they did
on the fifth at Rock Greek. but in
late weeks there haven't been sc
many.
The thirteenth and sixteenth al
Columbia. the twelfth and sixteenth
at Congressional, the tenth at Chevy
Chase, the eleventh at Manor, the
eleventh at Burning Tree and sixth
at Indian Spring the fourteenth anc
fifth at Beaver Dam, all these have
yielded their quota of aces over the
years, but the fifth at Rock Greek
stands out as the one hole above any
other short hole around the Capita
where most aces are born. Probably
it is because of its mere 100-yard dis.
lance. and it may be because there 4
so much more play at Rock Creek thar
on the private courses. But whatever
the reason. that fifth stands out al
the one hole on which more golf1nl
ambitions have been realized than any
other hole around the Capital.
Rice and Ruth Ambitious.
DONT be surprised to see two for
mer base ball players trying fol
q spot in the National amateur cham
pionship sectional qualification round
when they are played next month.
If the U. S. G. A. accepts the entire!
of Sam Rice, late of the Nationals. anc
Babe Ruth, once of the Yankees anc
the Braves, both these former bis
league stars may be among the aspir.
ing amateurs who will go to Cleveland
early in September to contest for Law
son Little's amateur crown. Both Rict
and Ruth are southpaw golfers anc
capable southpaws at that.
Rice over his home course. at In
dian Spring. next month may click of
q couple of rounds which would Civ
him one of the qualifying berths. Blu
there is the question. rs professional
ball player. even a retired one. pro
feSsional golfer?" Only the U. S. G. A
can answer that one.
If they follow the precedent of tn
Mary K Browne case they must de
clare Rice and Ruth ineligible to pla.
as amateur golfers. The parent bod.
ruled Miss Browne out of the women
national after she had turned tenni
professional. But is base ball bust
ness or sport?