Evening star., 1936-07-01
Uses Heavy Club.


Uses Heavy Club.
OF COURSE, the Didrikson gal is a
phenomenal hitter from the tee.
WELDING l3l2-ounce driver as if 1t
were wand, she parked her first tee
shot 280 yards out in the middle of
the first fairway She didn't hit em
all that way, but when she got hold
of the ball it went almost as far as
the tee shots of Nolan, who has
reputation as slugger himself On
wet fairway soggy from an hour
of rain, she almost reached the thir-
teenth green. $40 yards away, in two
shots. But the main improvement in
the Didrikson game has come in her
play with the short irons. Last year
she was wobbly with the pitching
clubs, but this year she is firm and
accurate-a girl who is likely to park
mashie shot alongside the pin any
time. Just to give you an idea how
long she is. she whacked a tee shot
and a No 7 iron clean over the green
at the sixteenth hole at Congressional
and then chidingly grinned at Ro-
land Mackenzie for advising her to
take when an iron would have
put her on the green.
No slow, meticulous golfer is the
Didrikson girl. Taking cue from
Sarazen. with whom she played a
series of matches last year she looks
the shot over before she reaches the
ball and steps up and whacks it. It's
all as simple as that No fussing
around, no lengthy preliminaries. She
has cut down her backswing a little,
but she still parks that ball away
out there beyond the 250-yard mark
err She picked up three brides at
Congressional and complained a lit
tie because she hadn't been able to
get more. Not many women, playing
the mems tees, can reach the tenth
green in two shots. But she did it
and followed it by holing a 20-footer
for birdie, ending the game with
another bird on the eighteenth. Babe
disdains women's par. Don't fool me
with women's par" she says. Il
want to play against mems par from
the back tees. That's the only way
Ill ever learn to play this game
Stolen Money Returned.
RABE thinks she is lucky. She is.
too. for today she was advised over
the phone from Arcola, N. j., that a
purse which was stolen from her car
Monday had been found by police and
will be returned to her 1T had $1O0
in it." she grined. Some one broke
into my car and took the purse. But
the police took fingerprints and To-
Gated it. I can use that sl0O, too
She isn't doing so badly, either, in
the golf business, where she is one of
the two woman pros touring the coun-
try. The other is Helen Hicks. Her
manager. Capt. Henry Lawson of Bos-
ton, says the Babe will make much
more than $4,000 or $1,000 year play
ing exhibition matches, making per-
sonal appearances and so on But the
Babes real love is golf. I'm going to
lick this game or it's going to lick me-"
she smiles. One look at her determined
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ship with which she goes about licking
golf courses and you get the idea that
she will DO the licking.
She will play Sunday at Congress
sional with Roland Mackenzie as a
partner against Fred Mcleod and
Witty Cox. But meanwhile some of
Congress;onal's better amateurs are
going to learn that Didrikson is
tough gal to whip on the golf course.
Billy Shea Wins Title.
RILLY SHEA, tall Congressional
youngster, doesn't want to be
without junior championship. Di-
vested of his District junior crown
last week, Billy stepped out at the
Baltimore Country Club yesterday and
played the Roland Park course in
72-76 for total of l48. to win the
Maryland junior championship. He
led Bobby Brownell, the District title
holder, by two shots, with Brownell
scoring $50 for the double circuit of
the hilly layout. Billy Dettweiler, an
other Congressional youngster had a
73 over the first round, but slipped
back to 81 in the afternoon. Scores
of other Washington youngsters were:
Donald Miller, Kenwood, 165; Merrill
Whittlesey, Argyle, 167; Jack Wade,
Washington, no card.
Dr. Calvert z. Buck, former Wash
lngton Golf and Country Club champ,
played Congressional in SO yesterday,
to win the gross award in a tourney
staged by the Cosmopolitan Club. The
net award went to Robert w. McChes-
ney, with S0-18-72.
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