Evening star., 1939-03-25
Indian Spring Scene
Tomorrow Of Test
For Stone Plan
12-Mun Teums Will Tv
Scheme Thut Places
Focus on Accuracy
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

BY WALTER McCALLUM.
The gray-bearded fathers of golf
would have conniptions could they
rise from mouldy tombs and move
out to Indian Spring tomorrow to
see the first public demonstration
OF American golf" as arranged by
William r. Stone, founder of the
American Golf Association, and
Washington's most enthusiastic
linksman.
From hallowed old st. Andrews
and ancient Prestwick and Troon
would come howls Of anguish as the
very vitals of the game the ancients
protected are rent apart. For, even
though Bill Stone has some good
ideas in his scheme to take golf out
of the slugging class and put it back
into the hands Of men with skill at
the short game, and accuracy with
all clubs, some of his plans would
find scanty favor from the gray
boards.
Play Only IL Holes.
Teams Of IL amateurs drawn from
Washington country clubs at 2
O'Clock will start playing a 12-hole
match. That's the first of the series
of iconoclastic raps at st. Andrews,
for a golf match always has been
considered an 18-hole test. Why, no
one seems to know. They will be
permitted to tee up anywhere on or
off the course. in the rough. the fair
way and even in the traps. The
only exception is that they may not
use mound of dirt or sand to tee
the ball. They will play into 5-inch
cups instead of the standard 412-
inch affairs. The expected gallery,
instead of wearing out shoe leather
and gathering bunions by traipsing
around a lot of real estate. will sit
IN specially constructed stands. The
Whole idea is as far apart from the
setup for golf rs she is known at
st. Andrews as any one could devise,
barring the fact that it will be
played on a golf course and with
standard clubs and equipment.
He's a Sound Thinker.
ASooSAllS, ~ uOWll W WIldl
amounts to Bill Stones resentment
against eXorbitant length of golf
courses, and Incorporates a good
many of his own ideas. Call 'em
revolutionary if you want, but Bill is
a sound thinker and good business
man with long and successful
career behind him. For years he has
had an idea that golf has become
slugging game with too much en-
phasis on the Wallop and not
enough on finesse. So Bill, when he
plays against man like Roger Pea
cock. who happens to be a powerful
hitter, has his own special set of
tees, designed to equalize the dis
parity in distance He can hold his
own at the short game with any one.
Many of the new principles of
american golf" are based on lessen
ing the disparity in distance between
powerful and average hitters.
One example of this is that the
ball. in approaching a putting green,
must land within specified area or
a penalty will be incurred.
The plan for the 12-hole layout
includes 5 par-3 holes, S para holes
and 2 par-5 holes, with a maximum
distance of 3,125 yards, although
how they are going to keep it down
to that distance is beyond us. But
Bill Stone, in his explanation says
the demonstration tomorrow after
noon only will simulate the new
game, inasmuch as no course vet
has been built for American golf"
Holes l, 2, 3 and will remain as
par As; the fifth will become a par
B by moving onto back tee, with
the player using an 8-iron for his
first shot; the sixth will remain as
a par and the seventh will remain
a par S, with No. 3 iron to be used
for the first shot; the eighth will re-
main a par 4 and the ninth will be
par 3 at distances of 100, 1875, $50
and ITS yards.
Line-ups Are Announced.
The teams will line up in this way:
"Eastside team" Roger Peacock,
manager; Bobby Brownen, Elliot
Spicer, Harry Pitt, Volney Burnett,
Roy Sasscer. Eddie Bean, Charley
Malone, Buddy Sharkey, Jock Ohm
stead, Lou Harrison, Tommy Bones;
"Westside team" Tom Belshe, man.
ager; Claude Rippy, Maury Nee,
Louis Fuchs, Parker Nolan, Ralph
Quinter, Earle McAleer, Tommy
Webb, Levi Yoder. Billy Dettweiler,
Martin Mccarthy, Billy Shea.
So, between teeing em up in traps
and teeing up everywhere else, the
boys should have fun. There's one
thing to be said: No one will have
an edge on the other, because 1t all
will be new stuff.
Fred Mcleod, Columbia pro, gets
no break in the P. G. A. champion
ship as the pro golf body goes on
for the first time this year to qualify
automatically all former champions.
Fred was runner-up for the title in
1920, but never has won.
The tourney will be played at the
Pomonok Club, Flushing, Long
Island, and dates of the sectional
rounds shortly will be announced.
Freddie. meanwhile, will be the
lone Washington competitor in the
Bobby Jones tournament at Augusta
next week.