Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-04-13
AROUND THE LINKS.
Entries for the Golf Tournament to BE
Played Next Week.

Played Next Week.
The coming Of weather suitable for golf
ing has brought out crowds Of players
about the links of the Washington Golf
Club on the other side Of the Potomac near
Rosslyn. On a pleasant afternoon it is
not at all unusual to see from twenty
five to fifty players following the ball from
tee to hole. and now that the big tourna-
ment Is so near at hand, not day passes
but that scores of fashionables on wheels
or in stylish traps cross the bridge to take
try at this fascinating game. Washing
ton society has taken up golf with a vim,
and the club which started only little
more than year ago with four members.
now has a membership of $50, and plenty
of others willing to join.
The Washington Golf Club has a fine
playing ground on an estate of 175 acres.
comfortable house on the premises fur
nishes a pleasant headquarters and meet
ing place, as well as a refuge in case CT
Indictment weather. One round of the links.
generally eighteen holes, constitutes a
match, but the local golf club has but
nine holes. and consequently it takes two
player completes the two rounds in about
two hours and half. as the distance
around the nine holes Is estimated at about
two and one-half miles.
officers to serve for the ensuing year, ard
this will be ratified at a meeting to be
held this afternoon. The officers elected
were as follows: President, Mr.. Henry
ser; treasurer, Mr.. George HELEN; secre-
tary, Mr.. Edward F. Riggs; captain of
the green, Mr.. William Edmond Curtis;
governing committee. Messrs. Henry May,
George HELEN, w. E. Curtis. Charles E.
Barry. John A. Baker, George 9. Fraser,
Edward F. Riggs. John Van Ness Philip.
Admiral s. r. Franklin and Judge John
Davis.
The Easter Meeting.
The original plans of the club contem-
plated the holding of three big meets dur
ing the year. at Christmas, Easter and
Thanksgiving. A handsome silver cup pre-
sented to the club was to have been played
for during Christmas week. but owing to
the bad weather play was abandoned and
the cup will now be contested for In
Thursday. Friday and Saturday of next
week. Play will begin at 10 o'clock am.
and last until 6 o'clock. luncheon being
served at the club house. There will be
a medal match: The May cup will be the
trophy in the hole match and there will be
second prize. consisting of handsome
set of silver golf markers. The prize in
the medal play is handsome gold medal
presented by Mr.. Henry White. The medal
play is regarded as the sharper and more
scientific match of the two, as in the hole
match a player can lift his ball after
trust to making it up later. In the medal
play every stroke counts. Both matches
are handicaps and the entries in the hole
match have been closed. Entries for the
medal play will be received up to the time
of beginning play and all members of the
club are eligible to play.
The average number of strokes necessary
to make the double round of the links is
about seventy or eighty. and the smallest
number on record at these links Is forty
three Handicaps are based on the players
records and vary from six to eighteen.
The entries for the hole match with the
handlcaps are: George s: Fraser, scratch;
Charles E. Barry, scratch; Horace Wiley.
6; J. F. Leech. 6; A. ]. Parsons. 6; w. E.
Curtis, 6; ]. w. Lockett. 6; Charles B.Gray,
6: ]. Augustus Taylor, 6; George HELEN, 8;
George NJ. Dunn, .; DR.. G. r. Brown, 8;
Commander C. G. Train. 10; Edward F.
Riggs Is; Guy F. Whiting, IS; Carroll Mer-
Ger, IS; Admiral Franklin, IS.
During the days Of the tournament ar
rangements have been made to have a
coach run from the city to the links for
the accommodation of players and their
friends. At other times the coach leaves
Farragut Square Wednesday and Saturday
afternoons at o'clock and returns after
the play of the day.