Evening star., 1913-10-20

holes have been made and the greens
| laid out and sown, but they are not
| yet ready for use and probably will
| not be until next season.
Montgomery Il. Danforth of Colum-
| bia did Il pretty piece of work in a
match last Wednesday, when he ne
/, gotiated the tenth hole of the Colum-
bia course in two strokes. Arthur l.
Clark. who made "A two on it nearly
two years ago. is the only other player
who has ever duplicated it. This hole
is one of the longest on the course.
being AIS yards lpar -, and the
chances are that this stunt will not
be duplicated again for another two
years Connie" Doyle also did pretty
piece of work when he made the fourth
in two. This is also four-hole, but
it is only 372 yards in length.
Chevy Chase has begun holding
weekly Saturday handicap events and
they have been taking exceptionally
well. On account cf the Columbia
tournament there will probably be
none next Saturday, but after that 1T
is expected that they will be held regu-
larly.
Columbia has suffered big loss,
Harlow Hurley. the youDgster who
won the Bannockburn tournament last
week and of whom so much was ex-
pected, having been called to Califor-
MIA on business He is sure TO De
away several months and there is "A
possibility of his staying there. His
loss at this time is particularly hard. as
Columbia was counting on using him
against Chevy Chase in the home and
home" match. which was played yes
terday in the final round for the mid :
die Atlantic States Golf Association
trophy. He and Winter have shown
themselves to be the best pair at
, Columbia and would probably have
won their four-ball match. while he
would undoubtedly have won i'm the
singles.
Defaults have certainly taken most
of the interest out of the "home and
home" matches, another being regis
tered Saturday when the wilmington
team forfeited to Bannockburn in the
which was to have been played on the
Baltimore Country Club course. This
puts the Maryland Country Club and
the Bannockburn Golf Club in the
finals. with neither having played
match The finals Will be decided Mo-
venber | on n neutral course to be de-
cided upon later.
Qualifying scores are now being
turned in for the presidents cup at
Chevy Chase match play to be decided
later in the month. Each year the
president of the club offers trophy
for handicap competition. the thirty
two lowest net scores qualifying for
match play. the winner getting the
trophy and also having his name
placed on the plaque in the frillroom.
w. r. Tuckerman won last years
event.
In Wednesdays home and home"
match between Chevy Chase and the
Washington Country i'm the semi-final
round stymies played an unusually
important part. In nearly every match
one or more of these figured. while in
one-that between George e. Truett
and Sam Dalzell-the latter took two
holes on stymies. With the Match
squared. Dalzell won the fourteenth
hole on one. Truett later squared the
match and or the eighteenth tee they
were even again. Truetts second went
in the sand trap and he made an al
most perfect out. but when he missed
his putt he laid himself stymie and
cna abled the Chevy Chase player TO win
the hole and with it the match. when
il looked as if the worst he could have
gotten would have been halve.
Eddie" Eynon seems to be in good
form and big things are expected of
him In this weeks tourney He beat
the Poole brothers in q threesome Fri
day. making Is. but three strokes
over par.