The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-05-20

If the interest manifested in Har- old Ashley's "Get Acquainted" Red and Blue tourney, which was run off at the Mattatuck Country club last Saturday afternoon can be taken as criterion, Halls reign as 'chief arranger of fairway activities is an assured success. That the lads of Mattatuck are becoming tourney minded was indicated by the num- Der that participated in this event. All that is necessary is Q conscien- tious chairman willing to put in some spare time to club activities. Mattatuck is indeed fortunate to have such chairman in the per- son of Harold Ashley. Hal tells me he has more tracks left in the bag, that are bound to meet with the ap- proval of the Wolcott fairway fana- tics, which he will pull at various intervals through the season.
 Fred Carr of insurance fame, was on hand for the Red and Blue af- fair and challenged Art Lunny to a double trip around the nine holes. The merry mortician graciously de- clined, 50 Fred inveigled Al Meyer. hans into a match. And, by the way, you can't convince Fred Carr that the afore-mentioned MT. Lunny was not in some way responsible for the anonymous phone call he received with some very disturbing reference to the recent news photo which showed the smiling Fred's likeness back in the days when a trolley ride to Walnut Beach was planned weeks in advance.
 Another informal club dance IS listed for Saturday evening. A like function held two weeks back met with such approval that the house committee decided to continue these affairs, through the season. Had, "Squire" Davidson, who led the grand march, attired "A la Camp" style, has promised to be on hand which alone assures on evenings entertainment for those attending.
 Here's one for Bob Ripley. Frank Byrnes, Joe Colucci, Leo Hot" Mo- Mahon and Dick Hyland were out foursoming recently. After the boys drove off the second tee they went merrily down the fairway and ina zine their surprise when they founo three of their tee shots came to rest 50 closely together that 1t was ne- cssary to lift two of them before the one away could be played. Yes, we think that MT. Ripley would list the above maong his Relieve It or Nots."
 Jim Conway who usually shoots in the low 80's came home with Q 08 at the finish of Saturdays contest, which caused more than a little sur prise among Mattatuck's Golfing Multitude. Now that genial Jim is summering within Q mashie shot of the first fairway and knowing him to be @ believer of the adage "prac- tice makes perfect" we are sure his game will take an upward trend.
 hnCl1R eNpeTJ JOIlh SAuAASJ' VSS" on Melad Malouf as Q tourney op- ponent. Now this Man of Rugs" IS considered pretty good ct this pill chasing pastime so we figured the sport ed had Q large order on his hands. When the scores were posted for the first nine plenty of eyebrows were elevated when 1t was noted that a 37, one over par, was posted after Johns name. That 37 was the low medal for nine holes.
 Early in the spring Bill Stanton, the big mogul of the Elks Bowling league, informed us he was going in for this golf game in & big way. Bill also mentioned that Leaman Har- vey, though his peer at the alley pastime, was going to find 1t rather tough going when they met on the fairway. At that, Bill may have the edge on his friend Leaman, for he played the game at the old Coli Lots in the west end years ago. However, to date this duo has fail- ed to put in an appearance for the scheduled match. Cy D'Vileskis, also a bowler of repute, was another who was going to spend his spare time a4..p lee.