Evening star., 1913-06-22
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

This years tournaments undoubtedly
brought out more surprises than have
occurred in any other previous year.
| tpSetS occurred in the Chevy Chase
tournament-the first of the year-and
have been occurring ever since. In the
| middle Atlantic states championships
held over the Columbia course, ". c.
Ballentyne. a youngster defeated b.
Warren Corkran, WoIcott Tuckerman
and several other cracks who were
looked upon sure winners over him.
while last week. in the Washington
Country Club tourney, Earl Wheeler,
member of the home club, defeated DR..
George +. Freeman, winner of the quail
ication round. and Eddie Brooke, the
little Bannockburn player who has been
putting UP such d fine game in recent
years. and who won the middle Atlantic
states title last year. Scores of other
upsets occurred. those mentioned above
being noted because of their Importance.
All of which goes to bear out the state
ment that there is nothing sure in golf.
Closely following the announcement
that a one was made al the Columbia
Country Club, comes word that Roswell
\. tJOck) Snow turned the trick at the
seventeenth hole $50 yards, par 81. at
the Washington Country Club d couple
VI NcthS dsO All OuQ tIlils1 dUOut
Of these shots is that Snow and Davis
who made the thirteenth at the Column
bIa IN one, are neither OF them con-
| sldered good players. and have been
| playing but comparatively short time
| while most of our stars have played for
years and never been able to hole their
| first shot.
Miss L. f. Lacey Won the prize in the
woman's tournament held at Chevy
Chase Wednesday afternoon. with Mrs.
Z. l.. Frailey second Miss Lacey'S gross
score was 11o, and handicap of twenty
strokes gave her d net count OF ninety.
Mrs. Frdlley went around in 10j, and a
| ten handicap gave her ninety-hve strokes
| 20 the winner. This makes two out of
| the last three events that Miss Lacey
| has won. and she now has enough golf
balls 10 last her the rest Of the year.
| In an interesting foursome Friday
/ afternoon Daniel *. Jackson and A. g.
Shelton defeated Alpheus Winter and A.
! H. Leet IN Il nassau match. jackson
| and Shelton winning all three ways.
! The woman players Of the Washington
| Country Club are active these days, and
women's events are being held every
other "Wednesday, the fair ones taxi
! ing turns in offering prizes. TIE next
one will be held Wednesday of next
| week Miss Iruett won last Wednes-
/ day s event.
! Work still continues at the Columbia
| Country Club. and the course is now
one of the hardest, if not the hardest in
/ the city. Traps have been placed on
| the sixth, seventh, eighth. ninth. tenth.
eleventh. twelfth. thirteenth and fif-
| teenth holes, with the result that al
| though par is seventy-two some Of the
| best players are contented with scores
| i'll the eighties.
| Bannockburn is now holding a handi-
| cap round robin tournament. every
entrant playing every other entrant in
! the event the player capturing the most
| matches being declared the winner.
George l.. Truett and Howard H. Beck
EFT, the professional, played together in
! IN a foursome over the Washington Coun-
try Club course last week. and their best
| ball was G4-Six strokes better than par
| rs this course is an unusually hard one
these figures represent some" golf.
4 course record was hung up at Co.
! lumbia last week when Fred McI.eo
the pro- made the rounds in 60 three
strokes better than par. Previous to
this, John Davidson's II was the best
ever made, and his mark will, of
course, stand as the amateur record
McLeod's card was:
IOut. .--...... 3 5 4 2 4-34
Par figures for the new course are:
lOut. 4 3 4-36
lTn 5 4-s6-7s
Bannockburn claims to have two
| Corners" in G.. r. Rankin and G. T
Cunningham, both young players. who
are showing good golf and improving
by leaps and bounds. Cunningham wor
1.-THE handicap event in the middle At