Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-10-17
By WALTER McCALLUM.


The chunky little gent who has
Travelled more than a million miles,
hit a golf ball before more poten-
tates than any man in the world.
and who probably has shown as a
golf performer before more people
than any one e.se in the game.
grinned across the Indian Spring
locker room.
Did you hear about the time I
was playing at Pinehurst with a
fellow who was supposed to be a
State champion and quite golfer?"
asked Jack Redmond.
HE asked me how long the first
hole was. I told him 420 yards.
didn't know he had a bad night
behind him and big head. He had
reputation and believed him. He
hit that first tee shot a mile into
the woods away off to the right. He
asked me the distance on the sec
ond, after taking a luscious 7 on
the first. Then he pumped one
into the bushes deep at the left.
Hey, fellow" said. rs it the
distance of the hole you want or
the width of it?"
OF course, a fellow who jumps
around like Redmond, playing a lot
of one -night stands and doing trick
shots before all kinds of audiences
from theater stages to the awed on
lockers at little country club in
the mountains. picks up a lot of
gags. Some of the ones Jack springs
are worn around the edges. Others
are more or less new.
Did you hear about the time
was following a big match?" he
said. "A couple of girls joined me
Pretty. too, and they wore high
heels"
Hey, there" yelled the pro. You
can't 90 out on the course with
those heels"
Then there's the one about the
time Jackrplayed golf with Ben Tur-
pin of the crossed eyes, the movie
comedian who died a few months
ago. Jack teed up two golf balls
side by side on the first tee at In
dian Spring. Ben said he couldn't
tell where the ball went. They all
looked like this" And Jack swung
nightly. One ball went off in a
pretty curve to the right; another
to the left. Yeah, Ben had a lot
of trouble keeping EN- straight"
said Jack
Lone Trick Man Left.
Redmond is the only trick shot
artist doing his stuff in a big
way around the country nova
days. He has survived a lot Of
good ones. such as Joe Kirkwood,
the pioneer in the business Of max
ing golf balls sit up and talk: Joe
Ear, the more or less clown prince
of golf, as Joe would have you be-
lieve Tom Hudgkins, who used to
be at Woodmont, and few less
+ illustrious gents.
"Yep. a fellow picks up some
funny slants on the game hopping
around the country as I do" said
Jack. II started working this way
II years ago. I figure I've travelled
more than a million miles by every
: conveyance known to man. If
there's a country I haven't visited,
/ Baedeker forgot it. I've played be-
fore crowned heads in Europe. ma
tive kings in the jungles of Africa,
New Guinea. Papua, Australia and
/ India, and I've had fun with them
all. You know. it's surprising how
| those black boys in far-away lands
! go for what they like to believe is
golf"
! Jack never was hot golfer him.
/ self. He wasn't one of the glamour
boys who won championships be-
fore or after he took up the trick
shot stuff But 1 think I've had
more fun than any champ who ever
lived" said Redmond. Il know
I've gotten around more than al
most any other golfer"
Jack will put on another show
at Congressional on October g. He
hopes for better weather than that
which greeted him at Indian
Spring. where cold wind cut down