Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-24
CHEVY CHASE Wins
Defeats Columbia Country
Club Golfers.
CONTEST IS HARD FOUGHT
W. r. Tuckerman's Rally and De-
feat of Mattingly Feature Strug-
gle of the Day.
CONTEST is HARD FOUGHT

The Country Club of Virginia. which
recently won the state championship.
| adoed another honor to its list by win
| ming the home and home championship
| or the Middle Atlantic States Golf Asso-
| citation by virtue of the Columbia Coun-
! try Clubs loss to Chevy Chase Yesterday
afternoon over the latter's course The
| Country Club of Virginia had won ten
matches and lost four, while just prior
] to yesterdays affair Columbia stood eight
| and four, with a protested match. which
would undoubtedly have been given it.
yet to be decided. A victory over its
| local rivals would have tied things up
for top honors and the handsome trophy
which goes with them. and it was for
| this that the Columbia representatives
were working
| Yesterdays match was an unusually
| close one, and up until the very last it
| looked as if Columbia had Won Four
| matches had been completed, and word
| was received that in tine fifth and de-
| Gliding one-that between A. S. Mattingly
| and W. r. Tuckerman-the Columbia
| player was :! up the twelfth and going
| like all possessed" Needless to say,
| 1t was a sad and sorry lot when Matt .
| came in and announced that he had lost
the Chevy Chase player having suddenly
| regained his form and taken five out Of
| the next six holes and ended the match
on the seventeenth, with a up and l
score
| These two players were in the midst of
one of the many heavy showers which fell
| during the afternoon and made brilliant
| golf impossible. but Notwithstanding this
| they made some exceptional shots and
| had many good holes. Mattinsly led all
! of the time until Tuckermans timely
| rally toward the end of the match, al
| though Tuckeiman squared the match
once, at the sixth. by laying his Oppo-
| drew away again by taking the mex two.
both of which in par figures. When he
| registered B on the eleventh. and at
| that time was leading . up and playing
an almost perfect game considering
weather and course conditions, it looked
as If 1T were all over but the shouting, no
one believing that the Chevy Chase
player could overcome this formidable
| lead so near the end of the match. but
| he did. squirt by him and slump by
| his opponent coming simultaneously and
enabling him to take the twelfth. thir-
teenth, fourteenth and fifteenth, placing
| himself l up instead of . down. The
sixteenth was halved. but Mattngly
| threw away the seventeenth. which cost
him the match and his team the honors
| for which it has been fighting all through
| the season
Two Surprises.
| AS has been the case N SO many OF
| the recent golf matches, those who We're
| looked upon as winners did not show up
so well. while those who did win We're
| hardly expected to do so. The two CO.
| lunfbia victories were registered by DR..
| Lee Harlan and Alpheus Winter the
| former defeating w. 5. Reyburn and the
latter winning from Morven Thompson,
| captain of the Chevy Chase team
| The match between Representative Rey
| burn and Dr. Harlan of the
| best of the day. the latter winning. > up.
| Both players showed up exceptionally
well on their long game. and pulled off
some good drives. but the doctor had
| shade the better of the arSumens when
| it came to putting and approaching, and
| it is to this superior short game that he
I owes his victory. The best hole of the
day was the second, when the Columbia
| player got beautiful 3. AT the turn he
won by up, he having gone out in Al
and made the inward trip in rs for Il
medal score of 20, which is exceptionally
| good under existing conditions. Reyburn's
! medal score was 43 and 3S for an ST. The
match was dOrmie > at the sixteenth. the
| congressman winning the next with a
pretty 4. par for the hole being D. Har-
| ban bettered par on the home hole with
a 3. which gave him the match.
| For the second time in as many weeks
| Alpheus Winter won from Morven
| Thompson. the Chevy Chase captain, up
| and to play being the score for yes
| terday. Winters Improvement within the
| past month has been wonderful and he
| played a fine game yesterday, his APP
proaches being almost perfect, and being
/ the shots to which he owes his victory
| The men played about even out, Winter
| taking advantage of Thompsons poor
putting and making most of his gain on
| the homeward trip. This defeat of
| Thompson was rather unexpected, as he
ranks much higher than does his oppo-
! nent.