Evening star., 1936-04-28


verdict. Ask Bill McEvoy. the bud
ding young barrister, if it isn't true
that golf is that kind of game. Bill
has been around athletics for a few
years.
Among other athletic achievements
he pitched at one time for the White
House Press Room team. He was
known in those days as String Bean"
McEvoy, and a darned good pitcher he
was, too. if he had had control. He
could wing EN- by the man at the plate
but he had trouble locating the platter
and any guy who faced Bill said
good by" to the wife and kiddies and
made sure his insurance policies were
all paid up.
Now Bill knows athletics in modest
sort of way, even such comparatively
mild game as golf, and when DR.. Bob
Keilty kept piling on the bets Bill kept
taking em. All he could say was
yes Well, it's sad, sad story.
Keilty came to the last hole needing a
10-foot putt to win dozen and half
golf balls from Bill. And darned if he
didn't sink it for a rs over that tricky
Congressional course, where both Nc
Evoy and Kelly do their topping and
cutting the ball around.
The IS was Keilty's record for the
course, but Bill, who knows his ath-
letics, thinks it was mistake. He'll
learn some day that golf is that kind
of game.
CREENKEEPERS of the Middle At
lantic sector are going to try to
lick team of greenkeepers from
Philadelphia next week. The Middle
Atlantic Association of Greenkeepers
will play next Monday at Columbia a
group of grass growers from Phila-
delphia and treat 'em to dinner after
ward.
Tom Ryan, Belle Haven pro and
greenkeeper, will head the local team.
Prexy Marty West will have his boy
friends of the Executive Committee of
the District Golf Association out to Co.
lumbia tomorrow for a round of golf,
a dinner and to set the date for the
local amateur championship. The
District fathers of the game, in case
they haven't heard much about Marty's
golf, will learn that "Unc." as he is
known at Columbia, can maui ball
about as far as any amateur hitting
the apple around Washington today.
That is, when he hits one. He doesn't
hit 'em all, but for a president Of
golf association he is a darned good
golfer.
GEORGE DIFFENBAUGH, Indian
Springs mighty midget, stole the
show in the Middle Atlantic p. G. A.
sweepstakes yesterday at Hillendale.
The little fellow who holds the Dis
trict open championship shot a ~ to
tie for first place in the individual
sweepstakes with Leo Walper and |
Glenn Spencer and then stepped out |
in the afternoon with Harry Peacock,
veteran Indian Spring golfer, to cop
first honors in the amateur pro sweep |
stakes.
The Peacock -Diffenbaugh combine,
aided by a handicap Of six strokes,
had best ball of "a. six under par.
Local pros grabbed the lions share |
of the purses, for Leo Walper and his
partners took most of that the top pair
left Walper and Levi Yoder and
Walper and Frank Williams had best |
ball totals of IS, while Walter and Top |
Dennell had 66. Diffenbaugh and Tom |
Belshe had a better ball of 81.
Other totals in the pro-amateur
tourney:
AL Treder and Hickman Greene, SO; |
Witty Cox and Ted Rutley, 10; Cox |
and Maury Fitzgerald, 10; Cox and
Russell Hollebaugh, II; Cliff Spencer
and Eddie Bean, II; Bob Barnett and
Jack Ryerson, 70; Cliff Spencer and
Jesse Baggett, Il; Al Treder and Bobby
Brownell, II.
Pro Observation-Disclosures, 72;
Leo Walper, 70; Glenn Spencer. 70:
Cliff Spencer, 76; Bob Barnett, n.
ROBBY JONES was on his way to
New York today following a visit
yesterday to w. p. A. headquarters,
where the Albanian conferred with
Harry L. Hopkins, w. p. A. admins
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