Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-05
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS

Morven Thompson. president of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Associa ton, an
nounced recently that the Washington
Country Club has been admitted to mem
bership in the association. The mem
bers of the club will be eligible to con-
test for the prizes that will be awarded at
the annual tournament of the association
to be held at the Chevy Chase Club June
6, and s.
The Washington Country Club is locat
ed on the Virginia side of the Potomac
near Jewell station on the Old Dominion
line. They have an eighteen-hole course
and an attractive clubhouse from which
most pleasing landscape stretches
toward the north and east
The committee on advancement, con-
Sisting Of one member from each of the
eleven clubs in the Middle Atlantic Golf
Association, was formed last week. The
duties of the members is to promote the
interest OF the association in the partic-
ular club of which he is a member DIR.
Thomas j. ". Brown, secretary of the
association, stated that special bulletin
board is set apart at each club for the
exclusive use OF matter pertaining to the
association, such as a list of officers, the
membership and score cards of every
club together with the ground rules.
The members OF this committee follow:
Ormsby McCammon Of the Chevy Chase
Club, John &. Davidson of the Column ola
Country Club, John W. Brawner of the
Bannockburn Golf Club, L. Kelley Roth
stein of the Baltimore Country Club,
Josias Pennington of the Elkridge Hunt
Clue. at Baltimore Allan d. Jones OF
the Hampton Roads Golf and Country
Club. D. II. Rucker of the Hermitage
Golf Club at Richmond. r. II. Pritchett
of the Maryland Country Club at Balti-
more, j. W. Atkinson, r.. of the Country
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the Wilmington Country Club. The
Washington Country Club will select
member for the committee this week.
At the Bannockburn Golf Club. which
is located just west of Chevy Chase
circle. interest in the weekend handicap
par competitions is growing and many
interesting matches were played last
DeFarses and j. Fl. London when the
tie in the second contest was played off
Brooke was two down to par. His medal
score was eighty-two. with a handicap
Of six, made a net medal score Of seven
ty-six. Brooke's match handicap was
five His card follows:
Out 3 ) 5-43
In. ) 3 4 1888
In the third contest, held last week, w.
!. TraverS won the prize with score of
two down 10 par. +. p. Brooke was second
best. ching three down to par after his
strokes. This is rule applied to all
players who win prize with score as
low as two down to par. Others who did
well were John w. Brawner, Daniel l..
Hazard, John l.. Warren. president of
the Bannockburn Club: o. II. Wood, F.
w. Collins and w. y Durand
The home and-home match schedule for
clubs in the Middle Atlantic Golf Asso-
citation, which will be completed this
week, is the largest in the history Of the
association. as nine clubs will contest for
the handsome trophies. whereas only six
were entered last year.
President Thompson said that the sched-
ule will be SO arranged that a team will
visit the home Of every contesting team
and later receive this team TO play the
return match on it's own grounds. The
prizes become the permanent property of
the clubs winning them. The teams will
be composed Of five players each.
Washington will be well represented
at the annual invitation tournament of
at Roland Park May 3. 10 and IL, as a
number of the best players from each
of the local clubs have signified their
intention of entering. Those who will
leave Wednesday night to take part in
the tourney follow Reeve Lewis. j. III.
Clapp. Allan Lard. Wolcott Tuckerman
and W. r. Tuckerman of the Chevy
Chase club: &. a. Watson, 4. b. Shell
ton and probabl DIR. Walter Harlan
Of the Columbia Country Club; w. a.
Knowles of the Bannockburn Golf
Club and a few others from the Wash
ington Country Club