Evening star., 1912-09-15
LOCAL GOLFERS WIN AND
LOSE TO THE VIRGINIA TEAMS
Virginia Country GLIB Defeats Chevy Chase
and Bannockburn, While Hermitage
Loses Both Matches to the Locals.

Country Club Of virginia.. .sS1 @
Chevy Chase Club. .;....--. ~, ST
Hampton Roads Golf Club -.... .eW
Hermitage Golf Club ........ ~ NJ
Maryland Country Club. ....... .s0S 20,
Bannockburn Golf Club. ....... .oU
Local clubs won and lost yesterday
when the Country Club OF Virginia and
the Hermitage Golf Club played Chevy
Chase and Bannockburn, the visitors
alternating SO that one was playing at
Chevy Chase while the other was at
Bannockburn. In the morning Chevy
Chase lost to the Country Club or Vir-
ginia, the visitors taking three out of
five matches. In the afternoon 1t en-
tertained the Hermitage representa-
tives and defeated them decisively, not
allowing them a single match. The
Country Club was equally successful at
Bannockburn, winning by four matches
to one in it's afternoon match, the local
team coming out on top in the morning
with Hermitage, 3-2.
Yesterdays results put Columbia on
even terms with the Virginia club,
counting the match which 1t won from
Baltimore. but which has been pro-
tested Chevy Chase has been pushed
down to third place.
At Chevy Chase (Morning).
The matches played at Chevy Chase
were. of course. of more Importance as
that club had splendid chance OF bet
tering its position and taking the lead
by beating its two rivals and winning
both matches. 1t was no match for the
Virginia Country Clubs representa-
tives in its weakened condition, but
gave them hard fight at that, losing
by to g.
The best of these matches was that
in which Frank Ellis and Douglas Call.
captain of the visiting. team. figured.
the nineteenth hole, / up. AS is indi-
Gated by the score and the fact that an
extra hole was necessary, the match
was one of the closest kind Of affairs,
neither man ever being more than a
hole except on one occasion.
Ellis started of by taking the very
first hole. After halving the second in
par S. he took the next, making it 3
up. This was the only time during the
than 1 up, and Ellis did not retain this
advantage long, as he lost the fourth
and fifth. making 1T all even. The sixth
was halved in par 3, and then the
ming the next, after both players had
fallen down badly. Although Cali
made par for the eighth, Ellis went
him one better and squared the match
again. He lost the ninth. however.
making him 1 down when they turned
for home.
The tenth, eleventh. twelfth and thir-
teenth holes were halved. three of them
in par figures. but Ellis came back on
the fourteenth with par 3, and even
ed the match. Call came right back
in the next and again Ellis was able to
even things up with par figures. The
seventeenth end eighteenth were
halved. necessitating overtime" play
Call played into unusually hard luck
on the nineteenth, going into the
Treating himself. This enabled Ellis
to take the hole with a 5, and gave
him the match, the card for which was:
Ellis
fs.:::::.::: Sss. 6 g :sss1 EsEso
Call
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The other local victory went to 8. l.
Heap. who was paired with F. ]. d. Mac
this match being up and to play. Heap
played one Of the best games Of his ca
reer, and his medal score OF S3-43 out and
40 in-is the best he has ever turned In
for :.the Chevy Chase course. His easy
victory over the Old Dominion player was
a we'll earned one and rather unexpected.
After halving the first hole, Heap took
three straight The fifth went to Mackay,
and then the Chevy Chase player took
two more. The eighth was halved In 6.
and when Heap took the ninth with a 3,
which is a stroke better than par figures,
he had his opponent down.. 1t was In
the last nine holes that the real golf was
shown. Mackay's medal score being 80.
but three strokes higher than par-and
Heaps being 40. At this stage OF the
game both men were going at their best.
Six fours were the results OF the first six
holes on the homeward trip, all OF them
being halved The match ended on the
fourteenth. The card for this match Is
given below:
Heap
In............. 4NO-SS
Mackay-
Out. ...... 8 5 6 8 6A8
In............. 4 1923
Another good match was that between
w H. Palmer of Virginia, and Allan
Lard OF Chevy Chase, the visiting player
turning out to be the winner, up and
to play. Lard has been laid up f0g two
weeks with q sprained back, and his
work showed 1t, as he was way off in
both his approaching and putting. Pal
mer lost the first hole, but that was the
only time he was ever down. The second
was halved and the match was squared
on the third. Palmer took the fifth and
sixth, and all the others were halved.
making Lard 2 down at the turn. The
loss Of the next two made him 4 down.
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