Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-31
CHEVY CHASE Wins
Defeats Columbia for Second
Place in Middle Atlantic Race.
TAKES 4 OF 5 MATCHES
Lard, Reyburn, Wolcott and W. B.
Tuckerman Victors Over Eynon,
Harlan, Mattingly and
Davidson.

| The tie between the Chevy Chase and
Columbia clubs for second place in the
! fight for top honors in the home and
| home" matches for clubs under the Mid
die Atlantic Golf Association was broken
Yesterday afternoon when Chevy Chase
| for the second time in as many weeks
| won from is local rivals. thereby going
| into the runner-up position. which car
ries with 1t valuable trophy offered by
the association. The match was played
| at Bannockburn, so that neither team
| would have an advantage.
Chevy Chase had one Of its strongest
| teams on hand, Capt Morven thompson
| and Sam Dalzell being the only two
regulars who were missing. the substi-
| tutes playing just about as well as the
| regulars. In fact. W. s. Reyburn's medal
score was better than that of any of his
| teammates This match. like almost all
| Of the recent local ones. brought out
| Winter is credited with the only Column
| bia victory, Eynon, Mattingy, Harlan
| and Davidson al losing their matches;
tutes on the winning team. played the best
game for his side, and defeated John
Davidson. 5 up and to play.
I, When Allan Lard and Edward B. Ey-
non. jr. last met. the Chevy Chase play
er won rather decis.vely. and. much to
every ones surprise, he repeated yester-
day. 3 up and to play being the score
His medal score going out was almost
perfect his card showing 81 tpar is 36),
while Eynon's Al made him down at the
| turn. On the outward journey the CO.
lumbia player did not take a single hole.
| his first win coming at the eleventh
where he made a 5 to Lard's &. the latter
slicing his drive just enough to prove
costly. The only other hole which weht
to Eynon was the fourteenth. Lard win
ming the thirteenth, being up at the
| fifteenth tee with to play A halve of
the sixteenth was halved the match end
| ed. Eynon was decidedly OF his game
going out or he might have won. as he
had little the better Of the argument
to his usual high standard and he fell
down on several puts which jne ordinary.
circumstances he woulds probably have
holed. Lard's game was as good as any
he has played for long time, the vet
eran showing up we'll at every depart
| ment- The card for the match follows:
Lard
1s' :::.:....... g 4sst4 tss-ss
Eynon-
Out Gu at..............- ss4tt4444ss1a1-7
Hard Match Here.
The match between A. s. Mattingly and
Wolcott Tuckerman was a good one ard
one Of the closest Of the day, the Chevy =
Chase player winning, 1 up. the result
not being decided until the home hole
was reached. At the end of the first
round Tuckerman was leading up. and
as he was going at his best it did not
look as If the Columbia player had
chance. He ran down long puts on both
the tenth and eleventh holes. however.
squaring the match. and from this time
on it was nip and tuck" every hole
being halved until the seventeenth was
reached, Tuckerman holing his third shot.
on this long hole and Matt" making
par 4. 1t looked as II the match would
be squared again on the home hole when
Mattingly laid his approach dead to the
hole and followed down his putt for 4,
but Tuckerman ran down a beautiful ten
foot putt for have, which gave him
the match
The only Columbia victory is credited
to Alpheus Winter. who took the measure
of Reeve Lewis, / up. This match was
also a good one and could not be decided
until the eighteenth hole had been played.
Both players were very evenly matched
At the seventeenth hole the match was
squared, Winter taking the eighteenth
and deciding one when Lewis overran the
hole on his first putt.
Easy for Reyburn.
Representative w. s. Reyburn of Chevy
Chase never played better than yester
day, his victory over John Davidson, )
up and T. being well deserved one and
one that was won on merits his game be-
ing superior in every way to that Of his
opponent. Davidson has been in a slump
for at least two months and does not
seem to know how to get out of it. al
though his card Of yesterday. was not
particularly bad. His IS might have won
against some of the other players. but he
was unfortunate in being hooked up with
Reyburn when the latter was going like
he was his 70 being good enough to have
won any Of the other matches. At the
turn, Reyburn had Davidson down. The
Columbia player won the tenth. but lost
the next two. making the score up.
When Reyburn took the thirteenth it was
5 up and the match ended on the next
hole. which was halved. The card:
Reyburn-
In........... as 8 4 3 S 4-37--I3
Davidson
Observation-Disclosures. 5 ) , 5-39-1S
Tuckerman Beats Harlan.