Evening star., 1909-05-13
Golf Tournament lnaugurated
at Chevy Chase.
FORMER RECORDS BROKEN
Entry List Largest Ever Known in
This Section.
PLAY CONTINUES THREE DAYS
Perfect Weather Attends the Occa-
sion-Course in Excellent Condi-
tion-players on Their Mettle.

With an entry list OF eighty-eieht golf
ers. the largest tournament ever held In
this section was inaugurated BY the
Chevy Chase Club this morning. Play
was started at $40 o'clock and every five
minutes thereafter until noon pair or
golfers drove OFF the first tee.
Perfect spring weather ushered in the
first days play, with the course in the
pink Of condition. An all-day Qualifica-
ton round. stroke competition, thirty-six
holes. has put the golfers on their mettle
| today to sift out the eight leading play
ers to compete for the first cup. the sec
ond eight players to compete for the
second cup, and the remaining players to
qualify in four sixteens, with cups Of
fered to each sixteen. Only one player
in eleven can qualify for the first cup,
so that the competition is bound to be
very close, and some ties will inevitably
| result. A prise will be awarded for the
lowest qualifying score.
| The first round. match play. will be
started for the first and second eights
and all sixteehs tomorrow morning. The
| four winners In the first and second
eiahts and the eight winners in the six
teens will meet in match play tomorrow
afternoon. Saturday the two survivors
| In the first and second eishts will have
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| to decide the winners and runners-tip.
while semi-fif1a1s and finals will be played
BY the survivors In the four sixteens.
There will also be handicap competi-
ton all day Saturday.
| There was hardly minute from the
time the first pair teed off this morning
and worked their way around the course
that all the greens on the placid Chevy
golfers bent on making the best record
| they have ever attained In their fayorite
pa slime.
r. Lewis, Chevy Chase. with 1s; A. 8.
Mattinsy Columbia ;th With 60; A. T. Eriss'
Chevy Chase, with 81, loom up strong to
qualify with the eight already named.
Sterrett and Scovill Open.
The first pair were off to good start
by $40 o'clock. DR.. J.. NJ. Sterrett. Chevy
Chase. and H. W. Scovill. Chevy Chase.
had the honor Of opening the tourna-
ment and did themselves proud by play
Ing UP to their best form, turning in
cards for 9I and 30, respectively.
Every few minutes after the first two
| players got away other pairs were start
| ed over the course as fast as practicable,
| and there was continuous stream OF
1 golfers coursing over the links until the
| last pair got away.
| All of the out-of-tow entrants were
ON hand to play their Qualifying round
| today including A. 8. Thurston and w.
| r. Thurston, Apawamis; Walter j. Ira
Wis. international champion, at one time
holding the amateur honors for both the
| United States and Great Britain; Z. b.
Mcdonald. ]. H. Whgham and l.. Gour-
ley, Garden City; G. B. Arams, BaItus-
man, Yohnundasis; c. w. Noyes. Brae
Burn: H. NJ. Hoyt, San Francisco: Chas.
! Bohlen, Palmetto; r. Weir, Wilmington;
| r.. E. Donohoe and ]. L. Phillips, New
| Haven.
Horstmann Unable to Play.
+. Oden Horstmann, Chevy Chase, who
| broke a rib several days ago and was
compelled to Withdraw from the match
| played by President Taft and Walter
| Travis yesterday, was unable to start in
the tournament this morning on account
OF his Injury. BY means Of an x ray
| last night Mr.. Horstmanh learned that
| his injured rib is rather badly dislo-
Gated, and his heart was almost broken
| when his physician told him he was in
no condition to play goff. Mr.. Horst
| mann's forced retirement from the tour
nament was a matter of general disap-
pointment, as he is the best golfer OF the
Chevy Chase Club and was looked upon
as a probable contender for first honors,
which will most likely be fought out by
Walter J. Travis as one OF the f1nalists.
Sherman Plays With Travis.
T. NJ Sherman, son OF the Vice Presi-
dent. had the honor of playing the quail
| flying round with Travis. with whom
| Horstmann had been paired. Neither
Travis nor Sherman was on his mettle
| this morning and each turned in a card
| much below his capability. In the FOUR
some match with the President yesterday
| Travis covered the course In 81, 37-74,
while this morning he was nine strokes
below this form with an So. Sherman
was but three strokes better than this, a
total of so for the grst round. Both play
ers will need to do much better this after
noon to assure qualifying among the first
eight for the chief cup.
Allan Lord. Columbia, and w. Tucker
| man, Chevy Chase, each covered the
| course in their first round In q. J. c.
| Davidson, Columbia, made 10 T. NJ
| Sherman with 50. w. r. Thurston. Apa-
| wants, and M Thompson, Chevy Chase,
both with 81; II. " Sanford, Columbia,
and r. Weir, Wilmington, both with 81
and w. ]. Travis with 49, with the three
| golfers who did better than 50. turned in
the leading nine scores up to early after
noon, not counting several other for
| midabe players. II these men can con-
tinue as good a pace on this afternoons
round the first eight players for the
principal cup will be picked from among
! them and one or two others.
| C. B. Macdonald. Garden City, and o.
| McCammon. Chevy Chase, were late in
getting started. They seem very formid-
able cOntenders to qualify for the first