They were to sit in the club’s grillroom at the table that Mr. Cagney once thwacked.

Here's Haas in the grillroom, later, with one of his golf scrapbooks: Haas worked at Burning Tree, in Washington, D.C., in the 1950s.

While this sounds like a grandiose version of the same futile, finger-pointing conversation overheard at the low-handicapper’s table in the men’s grillroom, it wasn’t.