Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-25
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

The middle Atlantic states champion
ship tournament, which closed yesterday
afternoon at the Columbia Country Club,
was undoubtedly the best ever held in
Washington, and its entry list of 151
players establishes high-water mark
for local tournaments. In addition to
the name of every local golfer of any
prominence the following visitors names
appeared on the entry list: B. Warren
Corkran and Z. A. Johnston. Baltimore
Country Club; n. S. Kinney and Richard
Fl. Pritchett of MARYLAND Country Club.
HI. Stewart Jones, r. j. y. Mackay,
Grossner Harrison. Granville Gray, w. +.
Wood, A. g. Hoover. j. Allen Bevin,
Henry c. Bridgers. Gilbert Weldon, FL. c.
Peck, I. c. Bell. r. c. Weldon, w. Buck
Hotchkiss. Joseph c. Taylor and George
d. Morgan of the Country Club of Vir-
ginia, Elmer E. Mitchell, John p. Arm
strong, A: McGeorge, Robert Weir. J.
Ralph Baily and ]. E. Smith of the Will
mington Country Club. and Philip NJ.
Prescott, jr.. of the Norfolk Country
Club, which has just been elected a men,
Der OF the Middle Atlantic association.
The team trophy offered to the team of
five players turning i'll the low aggregate
deal of attention, and eleven teams were
entered to fight for this handsome cup.
Chevy Chase winning out. Like last
weeks affair at Chevy Chase, the uncer-
taintes which make the game were much
in evidence. many of the buffers play
ing above their form and defeating bet
ter players. Any number of upSets could
be mentioned, but the most glazing was
the work of Robert Weir, who was the
runner-up to Walter J. Travis in the Co
lumbia fall tournament of last year. the
Wilmington player turning in card of
% Thursday, which would have put him
in the fifth sixteen had he not with
drawn.
Capt. Morven Thompson of the Chevy
Chase team has been out of town for the
week attending his brothers wedding in
New York He is having rather hard
luck with respect TO tournaments, as his
absence caused him to miss the middle
Atlantics and as chairman of the tour
nament committee at Chevy Chase he
did not get chance to compete in that
one.
! In the finals of the first sixteen in the
Chevy Chase tournament between Will
liam F'rew of Pittsburgh and B. Warren
Corkran. the latter player made shot
which puzzled the gallery for a While. On
his second drive. going to the eighth hole,
his ball struck on a bridge crossing the
| water ditch and suddenly disappeared.
1. was finally located under the steps
leading up to the top of the bank. He
Sargent ruling that it should be consider
ed the same as il in the bitches, as the
step was lower than the top of the bank.
According to the National Golf Associa-
tons record, W. r. Tuckerman of Chevy
Chase is Washingtons leading golfer, his
handicap allowance being four strokes,
while those Of the others who are consd-
cred as being good enough to receive
ratings are two strokes larger. In this
players are given handicaps. as follows:
w. r. Tuckerman, Chevy Chase, 4: Sam
Dalzell. Chevy Chase. q: John 4. David
son. Columbia. 6; T. F. Ellis Chevy
Chase. Il; DIR. Lee l.. Harpan. Columbia.
6; Dr. Walter s. Hafban. Columbia 6;
G. c Lafferty. Chevy Chase. &: Allan
Lard, Chevy Case. g; Reeve Lewis,
! Chevy Chase. 6: \. S Mattingly, Column
bia i: OrmsbE Mctammon, Chevy Chase,
6; Morven Thompson, Chevy Chase. 6;
Woicott Tuckelman. Chevy Chase. q. and
E. p Brooke, Bannockburn. 8. The
executive committee recommends that in
match play singles three-fourths of the
| difference between the handicaps be al
lowed and that in foursomes three
! eighths Of the difference between the
combined handicars be allowed.
Last season the Columbia Country Club
ordered a bronze tablet to he placed in
the clubhouse, and 1t was decided that
lowest score over the course during each
year would be engraved on 1t. John
Davidson,s name is the first to he put on
it, his a of last year, which Is, by the
way the course record. being the best
for the 1912 season. In order that the
green committee does not overlook any
winning scores in deciding whose name
will so up for the 1913 record. ii will
appreciate having any player making
an exceptionally low medal score
whether i'm match or stroke competi-
tom send il i'm to the committee, prop
erly signed, dated and certified Only
scores will be acceptable which have been
made in an authorized competition with
out violation of any medal play rule. The
lowest made so far are the two aSs
by Ormsby McCammon and Wolcott
Tuckerman Thursday in the qualification
round of the tournament.
The work Of 0rmsbv McCammon OF
Chevy Chase is attracting lots of atten-
ton lately, the big fellow showing he Is
one of the few who can come back. In
last weeks Chevy Chase invitation event
he forced b. Warren Corkran to the
home hole before he was beaten, l up,
while he evened things up to certain
extent when he beat the Monumental
city player out in the Qualifying roRd