Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-23
By WALTER McCALLUM.

For quite a few years now the
links citizens Of the little golf world
that is the Congressional Country
Club have been Oh-ing and Aiming
over the performances of a little
soft spoken fellow from Texas.
Gene Pittman won the club
championship once, although he
cannot knock a tee shot further
than some of the big hitters can
poke a No. 3-iron shot. And Con-
gressional happens to be one OF
those long courses where, If you
believe the locker room converse
ton, they pay OF on the tee shot
In other words the big hitters should
have the edge on such.a lengthy
course.
Through the years, although Gene
is handicapped by lack Of length
from the tee and through the fair
way he has managed to hold his
own with the big hitters of the
club. Men like Parker Nolan,
Charlie Malone, Billy Shea and
Ralph Bogart have come to admire
the courage and the chipping and
putting ability Of the little "Bois
dare stump" from Texas. And there
hangs another story.
Gene reached his all time high in
chipping and putting yesterday. He
set a record that may go down in
the archives of Congressional and
local golf for many a year to come.
For diminutive Gene played the
Congressional course in "a strokes,
which is even par. That in itself
isn't unusual. 1t has been done
many times before, but how he did
it is the real yarn.
Played Every Hole in Par.
He played every one of the Is
holes in exactly par, neither over or
under on any hole. He hit three
green's In regulation par figures. He
used only 81 puts to the round.
Any one of two of those three cir
cumstances would be unusual, but
the combination of round OF every
hole IN par, and using only q puts
to the round makes that Score of
Gene Pittman's the most unusual
and remarkable golf round played
around Washington this year, or
in any long stretch of years
For Gene had his best day in
years of chipping and putting. Not
the least remarkable part of the
round was that his longest putt
was only 10 feet in length. He was
missing the greens by a yard or 2
with his second-or third-shots and
then chipping the ball stone dead.
Some Of the puts were mere 6-inch
affairs. Awed observers of the
Texans links magic were G. F. Mix
kelson, Fred Berquist and D. w.
Smith.
About once a year you'll hear of
a round of golf where every hole is
played in par. 1t usually comes
from the hot clubs Of a fellow who
is knocking those shots onto the
green and missing birdie puts by
inches. But maybe you'll never
again hear of a round where man
hit only three green's in regulation
figures and yet played every hole
in par. Witty Cox was talking about
it. 81 never have heard of one like
that" he said. And maybe I never
will hear Of 1t again. It's very
unusual"
Gene used only II puts on the
first nine. But he got more Scotch
on the second nine, where he used
that magic wand only 10 times. He
didn't chip one in, but he Clipped
'em so close the puts were easy.
And he hit only the sixth, eighth
and thirteenth green's in par figures.
The score itself? Well, it Is Just
par for the course. Like the score
card. Par for every hole. For the
record, here 1t is:
Out -------543 454 453-37
In (par) ---443 534 444-35-72
Pittman Is Hard Man.
That reference to the "Bois d.
Arc" stump?
It happened like this. Gene was
new to Warrington from his native