Evening star., 1940-05-20
BY WALTER McCALLUM.


Siege-gun hitters at the Beaver
Dam Country Club have been hay-
ing field day, or a flock Of them,
knocking par for a row of eagles
over Washington's longest golf
course.
Over the last few days they've
had no fewer than five eagles on
that lengthy Landover layout, where
AL Houghton presides over the golf
shop. Only one Of the eagles has
been made on par 5 hole, where
you usually expect these paragons
Of links skill to be scored.
N. E. Pop" Rogers, one of the
regulars at Beaver Dam, holed q
lengthy iron shot for an eagle deuce
on the 423-yard third hole. A few
hours before Eddie Bean had holed
q 7-iron shot for a deuce on the
357-yard second. Along came Jack
Palmer with a pitch shot smack
into the cup on the 313-yard tenth
hole, and not to be outdone Joe
Balestri did the same thing on the
same hole. Palmer used an 8 iron.
while Balestri played his shot with
q 8 iron. Bob Mills holed 10
footer for the eagle 3 on the 500
yard seventh hole.
That's the biggest string of
eagles I ever have run across" said
Houghton. "It seemed that every
day one came along. These boys
are pretty good. They have to be to
hole 'em like that"
Pros Play at Indian Spring.
Most Of the local pros were play
Ing today at Indian Spring in a
little informal pro-amateur sweep
stakes tourney put on by Club Pro
Mel Shorey.
All OF them were hot after the
scalp of AL Treder. the mustached
Manor Country Club pro, who set
pro record Of SO for the Bradley
Hills Country Club course yester-
day IN winning first money of S65
and the sweepstakes exhibition
match put on by E. G., Adams, pres
tdent of the club.
Treder played the mines at Brad
ley Hills in "a each way, which
happens to be level par. He had
played only a few rounds of golf
this year and yesterday had his
first peek at the Bradley Hills
course. He must like it for he was
on par all the way. Witty Cox won
$50 with second-place 10 and
George Diffenbaugh of Kenwood, AL
Houghton of Beaver Dam and Gene
Larkin of Woodmont won IS each
with Ills. Larkin missed a 6-footer
on the home hole to tie Cox.
Peacock -Rippy Survive.
Only one local duo survived the
third round in the Maryland State
best ball matches at Hillendale, but
that pair-Roger Peacock and
Claude Rippy-are pretty good jour-
neyman golfers.
Rippy and Peacock licked Jack
Keele and Charles Vale of Kenwood
4 and 2, while Charlie Malone and
Ralph Bogart, the favored Con-
gressional pair. dropped match to
AL London and M. Caplan of Wood
holme. The Woodholme boys spe-
cialized in chipping into the cup
They did it four times and it was
too much for Malone and Bogart.
Next Sunday at Manor Peacock
and Rippy will meet Otto Greiner
and DR.. E. Stinebert of Terra Mariae
while Spencer Overton and Erford
Barnes of Rolling Road, the defend
ing champs, will meet Csplan and
London.
Washington Golf and Country
Club golfers this week will start play
for the club championship, with a
qualifying round coming up over the
week end for the title now held by
Golf Chairman Ralph Fowler. The
caddie fund received a big boost yes
terday, with Fowler annexing the
gross prize at 70. L. Franklin won
the net award with 83-18-65. All
money taken in from entries-a total
Of more than S4O-goes to the caddy
fund.
Semi-flnalists in the Congressional
Club spring handicap tourney are
Fred Berquist, J. w. Freeman, c. w
Hammett and w. E. johnson. All
won second round matches yester-
day. Low scorer in the breakfast
foursomes was A. J. Abbott, who had
88-19-69. The winning foursome