Evening star., 1937-01-30

CLUB manager OF washington
, and Richmond, Va, is the new
- manager of the Kenwood Golf
and Country Club. Fishers appoint
ment was announced today to club
members. He succeeds Fred Fuller.
who died q little more than a month
ago. Fisher already is on the Job.
The new manager, who resembles
President Roosevelt in appearance,
formerly was manager Of Rauschers'
here and also was manager Of the old
westmoreland Club in Richmond. He
has had wide experience in club man
agement and was chosen from a
lengthy list Of applicants.
You always can depend on George
Diffenbaugh, the District open
king, to put on a garrison finish when
he needs it. But in the first place the
match looked a little one-sided, and
when Cliff Spencer started rapping in
long puts from all over the green's,
George really needed to do some work
on his own. George and Al Jamison
and Maury Fitzgerald of Kenwood
played Spencer, Elliott Spicer and
Ken Lafferty at Indian Spring, and
Georges outfit were 2 down with 4
to play ON that first nine when the
diminutive District champ suddenly
came to life.
Starting at the sixth he played
the next four holes in 2, 3, 4, 2,
which happens to be four under
par for that stretch, winning
the nine with his own efforts by
bagging two brides and an
eagle.
But George wasn't so hot on the
first five holes. Even with that finish
he scored q 81.
Witty Cox, Kenwood pro, was due
in town today to look over his affairs
at Kenwood and pick up SCI of new
golf clubs before showing of for Miami
where he will play in a few of the
Winter tournaments before coming
back to Kenwood around April l..
VIII has had lot Of tough luck this
Winter. what with a serious illness of
Mrs. Cox, first-claSs case of grippe
himself, and some other matters that
forced him to cancel West Coast
trip. But he'll spend the rest of the
Winter in the South. Wifi hasn't
swung a club since late November.
according to his pals in the Kenwood
golf shop, which Is just about the
longest stretch away from the game
he has had since he was mustered out
Of the Navy in 1919.
WHEN you get down to talking
w about the better finishes on a
golf course, listen to the tale OF what
to Ralph Fowler and Lefty
Harrell at Washington. They were
sailing serenely along against Les
Whitten and Dave Thomson at the
seventeenth when suddenly the hur-
ricane struck. Whitten flung q
mashie shot up against the pine for
a bird three at the seventeenth to
win the hole and Dave whacked q
full wooden-club shot 10 inches from
the pin at the eighteenth to win that
one, too. You won't often find those
holes being played in consecutive
brides.
And Calvert Dickey, the big hit-and-
miss man Of washington, has gone
and done it again.
Dickey, in case you don't
know, doesn't care hoot about
form or the habiliments Of skill.
Results are what count with
him, and II he tops . ball up
against the pin or II hits . tree
and bounces up to the cup he
calls 1t good shot.
Playing against DR.. Calvert E. Buck
he failed q couple Of wooden shots
at the eighth hole at Washington
about so yards short Of the green.
Buck, meanwhile, hit two fine shots
to the putting surface. Dickey then
took his niblick, converted it into q
No. 3 iron by turning the face in. and
topped . shot that never left the
ground and ended 6 feet from the
cup. He sank the putt and grinned,
when they start paying OF on form
I guess I'll quit this game. Give me
results every time"