Evening star., 1940-11-26
GoIfing Sports Writers Wage
Intercity War Tomorrow;
Hoyo Links Team Strong

ship comes up next spring" says
Tony. There's lots Of power in
that squad, and even though we
won't have Johnny Burke it will be
a well-balanced bunch"
AS soon as he gets the 60 sign at
Congressional Witty Cox will start
things humming on that new nine
holes. The members feel that .
new nine, to eliminate congestion,
is more important right now than
a fairway watering system. A flock
of Congressional members will trek
down to Pinehurst next week for
three days Of golf. A dance will
follow at Congressional Decem-
ber IA.
Jim Ferrier and Jack Ryerson,
well-known amateurs, are at Pine
hurst. Jimmy Thomson and Hor-
ton Smith, the famous golf pros,
also are enjoying busman's holi-
day playing that great No. course.
Links Pot-Pourri.
The folks around Congressional
are calling Ralph Bogart, the
husky District amateur champion,
"Einstein." Can it be because
Ralph is such a thinker at golf?"
The youngster doesn't need to
think. He hits em so far and
SO straight it doesn't take a lot Of
heavy thinking TO know what to
do with the next shot. Ralph and
chunky Earle Skinker will toss a
lot of amateur golf toward Florida
in March. Witty Cox will pair with
Bogart in the st. Augustine anna
teur-pro tourney late in March,
while Skinker hasn't yet announced
his partner. Between 'em those
two youngsters can go q long way
in golf.
Set Collinge, the caddie master
at Columbia, who plays a lot Of
golf with the members, claims
Skinker is the best youngster de-
veloped at Columbia in years. NO
one near him." says Collinge. Not
even close" That is quite a COM
pliment, for Set isn't too free with
those jewels of praise, unless they
are well deserved.
Columbias golf shop rummy ses-
sions have started for the winter,
with big Red" Banagsn sitting like
Buddha at one end of the table, next
to Fred Mcleod, with Collinge In
the middle and some club member
taking the odd hand. They don't
get hurt if they lose, for it's only a
nickel chip.
Hardy Busy in Winter.
At Chevy Chase, where Bob Bar
nett has gone for the winter, Bill
Hardy goes on making those beauti-
fully finished handmade clubs, and
Sandy Douglas listens to the radio.
It's pretty dull there on a weekday,
even though that magnificent course
stretches away into the Wisconsin
avenue distance like golfers dream
of paradise Hardy wants to catch
up on advance orders from Barnett
in Florida. Barnett swamped him
last winter with more orders than
he could handle. There aren't many
of the old-faShioned kind of club
makers around nowadays, and We
don't know of any with the mastery
of Bill Hardy. He's a genius with
tools and has the eye of master for
a shaft and a head
Witty Cox is making a habit now
of getting 3 brides on each nins
he plays. He always nowadays
scores the first nine in IS, with three
birds and a buzzard. And then
getting his usual three birds and .
buzzard on the last nine, he gallops
around in 68 or so. OF course under
the winter rules now in force at
all the local clubs scores don't mean
anything unless they are more or less
miraculous.
Lew Worsham's IS at Burning
Tree was not course record, under
winter or summer rules, The course
has been played in ga under summer
rules, which makes IS under winter
rules not so hot by comparison. But
the score was a good one, nonethe-
less. Leo Diegel scored Burning Tree
(summer rules in 66 one day and
lost all three ends of a Nassau bet
with Fred Mcleod. And of course,
for long hitter, the real par of
Burning Tree is So. The 18th hole
from the back tee is the only real
par-5 hole on the course. The Sec
ond, ninth and tenth all are big
par As and should not rate as par S.
| in a major chamDiOnship.