The Washington times., 1913-08-18
CHEVY CHASE HOLDS
LABOR DAY EVENT
Golf Tournament Expected for
Holiday, Following Usual
Custom.
By "CLEEK. !"

Members of the Chevy Chase Golf
Club are looking forward to the an
| nouncement of the usual Labor Day
| handicap golf tournament for members.
| While no definite announcement is
made as yet there is every Indication
| that the usual handicap match against
I par and the handicap match will be a
feature of the morning and afternoon
play on Labor Day.
The tournament will be closed to MEM
bers Of the club. and the announce
ment is expected in the next few days.
With Chevy Chase holding its annual
Labor Day event all Of the local golf
clubs will be busy on that day and the
members of the various organizations
will find plenty of opportunity to put
in their time on the links.
The Columbia Club. and Washington
Country Club will announce tourna-
! ments for Labor Day. so that all of the
links will be filled to overflowing.
Chevy Chase has but to win a post
poned match from the Country Club
of Virginia in the home and home
matches of the Middle Atlantic Asso-
citation in order to get into the semi
finals with the Washington Country
Club and the Columbia Club.
1t appears that the Country Club Of
Virginia had the match OF June %
postponed on account OF the fact that
tAey had come up to Washington the
previous week and did not feel that
the schedule treated them fairly in
being called here again.
Chevy Chase postponed the match
which was set over until this fall
When this match is gotten out OF the
way the remaining dates on the sched-
ule will be properly arranged. 1t Is
expected that a meeting of those in
charge will be called the first of next
month.
All Of the professionals who took
part in the open Metropolitan cham
pionship at Garden City. L. l.. are back
In harness. George Sargent who tied
for sixth place and Fred Mcleod who
got into eighth money have been hard
at work since their return, as has
Howard Beckett, the Washington
Country Club professional.
Some of the aspiring younger golfers
who want to create records may try
the marathon accomplished in Boston
recently when two golfers played
match Of 106 holes which lasted many
hours. .
S. E. Thayer and John H. Densmore
were the participants and Woodland
was the course chosen. The contest
started as a joke, but wound up in
reality that defies comparison. Six
rounds and two holes OF actual golf
was played. each player finishing out
at every hole. Thayer had the re-
markable totals for his circuits of 81.
76. rs, y, rs, which furnishes the grand
total of 459, a worlds record for this
number of holes.
The last four rounds made by Thayer
compare favorably with figures set by
the professionals in open championship
play, as he tOtaled 302. after he had
undergone the strain and firing effects
of thirty-siX holes-usually considered
a good days work for anyone. In ad-
dition to the actual playing of the
rounds, Thayer carried his own clubs
the full distance. and this Is a task in
itself that few golfers would attempt
in playing lO5 holes.
Careful figuring produces the fact that
II >the players followed a direct route
from tee to green. and from green to
tee, that each round would be slightly
over three and a half miles. but as
golfers are not given to this variety of
playing, II is not hard to believe that
close to a half mile Of extra walking Is
done by every player in every round.
The start 0 fthis endurance contest
was made just after a. m. and the
finish was made shortly after p. m.
There was no intermission in the
rounds, and only a glass of milk and
a sandwich were INDUCED in at noon,
when this food was taken on the 20.
as the players passed the clubhouse
in completing their third round.