Evening star., 1943-07-18
S|ugger, Star Putter
Are C|ashing Today
Al Bannockburn
BY WALTER McCALLUM.

George Dlnenbdugh, the chunky
little Kenwood pro, who grabbed his
share of golf glory in the days when
there were pro links affairs. is sold
on Hugh H. (Spike) Clines, one of
the two who will play golf today at
Bannockburn for the Federal Golf
Association crown.
He'll fool you" says George. He
doesn't seem to be hitting that ball
hard. but when you walk up to his
tee shot, you find it's out there
long way. If he could putt like a
lot of fellows I know, he'd be
world beater" The 32-year-old
Clines is a pleasant-faced gent, who
came to Washington from Kentucky
to work at the tremendous organi-
zation that is the War Production
Board.
Thrice a winner of the Kentucky
amateur title, he grins and says:
There wasn't much opposition"
Lanky Johnny Fischer, national am
ateur champ of 1896, played in one
of the tournaments which Clines
won. Johnny never was pushover
In any ones league.
Many people think Leroy Smith.
the diminutive South Carolinian, is
a red-hot golfer. Smith is the gent
who will meet Clines in today's
playoff. Smith came to Washington
four or five years back from Spar
tansburg. N. c.: won the public links
championship and has done pretty
we'll in other tournaments. Not the
long hitter that is Clines. he is an
excellent putter and top ''scram-
bier" one who does not have to hit
the greens in regulation figures to
get his par.
GAO Team on Free Ride.
In other years the FGA tourney
was one of a big bunch of such af-
fairs, possibly not as important in
the eyes of some as the more CLAM
orized events Today it is one Of
few, and as such takes on added
Importance. Nor did the boys play
indifferently when they tied at 143
for the title That score represents
good golf over the trying and ex-
acting Bannockburn layout
1t may breed jealousy among some
of the other lads. but the eight Cen
eral Accounting Office candidates in
the tourney got in on pass. Their
expenses. meaning entry fees, caddie
fees and lunch BILL were paid by the
athletic organiZati ton of GAO. Joe
Hayes got IS apiece for the golfers,
which is close to what the day cost
them.
Freddie Corcoran, the affable
PGA tournament promoter, is on the
pan. George Jacobus, who chose
Freddie for the PGA job in 1886,
thinks it is wrong for the organiza-
tion to pay Freddie's sl00 a week
salary while he is in Red Cross uni
form and doing war work.
Dropping in at Chevy Chase were
Private Bobby Bowers, who used to
be one of Bob Barnett's aides, and
Bud Steele, a golf salesman in the
days when there were clubs and golf
balls to sell Bud now is an Army
corporal at nearby post.
Ball Supply Shrinking.
The hot dope on the golf ball
situation is that you'd better start
saving EN-. The reprocessing pro-
gram is by way of begging down for
two reasons. There's much greater
than a 10 per cent shrinkage IN the
business of reprocessing a golf ball,
and the pros aren't sending enough
back to the manufacturers to keep
abreast of current demands for re-
conditioned spheres. Every one
nowadays uses rebuilt golf balls.
Probably there aren't a couple OF
dozen new golf balls made Of live,
new rubber, in golf shops around the
city.
The only way usable golf balls can
be had nowadays is by sending cut
or much balls back to the man
ufacturers for reWindlng and re-
covering. Nor is the supply mex
haustible. So next time you slug one
into the deep rough mark the spot
carefully and hunt and hunt.
Feminine tournaments are scarce
enough nowadays. but Washington
Golf and Country Club Glass B
players are going to have one OF
their own. 1t will be staged at the
Virginia club July %. Prizes will be
presented by Mrs. M. M. Alexander.
Next tourney Of the Women's Dis
trict Golf Association is six weeks
away.
DR.. r. A. Keilty, president OF the
MARYLAND State Golf Association. is
back In town following an illness
while on Western trip. Mel
Shorey, Indian Spring pro, is the
only pro golfer around town after
whom a street has been named.
Shorey drive is street in subdl-
vision near the Indian Spring Club.
Mel says his club has raised around
$1,000 in a campaign to donate a
mobile canteen to the Red Cross.
,pJ will ocbieve the coal of 50 500