The Washington times., 1938-08-16

down the fair
way "a 2
yards? Can
B E R N I e
PHILLIPS?
Can you?
Lillian Rixey On Wednes-
day, August "a, at 9 o'clock In
the evening at East Potomac
Park, under floodCghts, will be
staged the unofficial power
driving contest Of the District.
Each contestant will be per.
mitted five drives and may Sc
lect the best ball of the five to
stack up against the other con-
teStants.
There will be nc entry fee
and anyone may compete pro-
Vided he can furnish TOMMY
DOERER, Jr., with an eye-wit-
ness, Or the eyewitness sigma
ture, attesting to the fact that
he has driven a golf ball off the
tee 300 or more yards. No $50
yard weaklings need apply.
Send your entries in to TOMMY
DOERER before the morning Of
the oath.
Barefoot Congressnlan
S. G. LEOFFLER. links con-
cessionaire. is putting up for
first and only prize a handsome
$40 golf bag, which TOMMY
DOERER has promised to fill
with three brand-new Hagen
Streamliners.
An unidentified Congressman
from Oklahoma has started a
new fad out at Rock Creek.
When Congress was in session
Che hasn't been seen around
since Congress took a holiday =,
the honorable Congressman fire.
quently appeared on the dewy
links early Of a bright spring
morning to play a round Of golf
barefooted.
The Congressman would ar.
rive at the starting tee in his
house slippers, then shuttle
them off after the manner of a
Japanese gentleman entering his
domicile, and proceed to bust
100. On course B, the tee at
hole number five is reached
only after a treacherous climb
over sharp gravel. No one knows
quite how the Congressman was
able to negotiate this climb in
his bare feet, but he never COM
planned. Perhaps he was used
to treading on Oklahoma cactus
back home.
There is a theory that walk
ing barefooted in the early
morning dew quiets taut nerves.
In fact there is one school of
thought which holds that psy-
chopathic patients in their more
violent stages may be subdued
only by letting them gambol on
the wet sod barefooted. Per
hapS the honorable Congress
man sought to relax the nerve
strain of dealing with numerous
visiting constituents by his bare
foot visits to Rock Creek.
So many other linkSterS have
followed suit that Manager
HARRY GRAHAM is now think
ing of staging a barefoot tourna-
ment as his next attraction.
Murder COndOned
I have been taken to task for
publicly Sorrowing over the
murder Of GEORGE, pet crow
at the National Women's Coun-
try Club, by an unidentified
golfer, in a story which ap-
peared in last Saturdays Times.
I cannot but admit that Reader
JAMES HERNDON has the
facts on his side in his denuncia-
tion of crows in general, but as
to the unprovoked murder Of
GEORGE, the pet crow, his
argument does not contain
truth because it lacks heart.
Writes JAMES HERNDON:
"It is hard enough for the
various game commissions
throughout the nation to keep
down the ever-increasing num-
ber of these numbering pests
without the publication Of
articles upholding them.
'"The crowd wreakS havoc
wherever he goes. It is eSti-
mated that 80 per cent Of all
the young ducks Matched an.
nually in the United States are
killed in the nest by ravaging
crows.
"Nor are game birds the only
victims of the murderer's inSati-
able appetite. Countless song
birds and beneficial species are
attacked by the marauder. Not
to mention the crops destroyed.
There are and always will be
a few pseudo-humanitarians who
persist in spouting their asinine
observations on subjects which
they are not qualified to judge
Judged from the point of
view of conservation, the con-
duct of the golfer who was
responsible for Georges violent
ending was quite commend
able"