Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-29
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get up team of six players who are
willing to take successive long trips
must also be taken into consideration
Hermitage of Richmond is a neutral
course, and the Virginians hope to get
the Chevy Chase team to play the
match there
An interesting match was played at
the Columbia Country Club Friday
afternoon, when A. 9. Mattingly and
George p. James defeated L. G. Com
stock. jr.. and Daniel K. Jackson. "Old
Matt was the bright particular star,
making several pretty shots.
Good progress is being made in the
"round robin" tournament at Ban
nockburn, and 1T is expected that 1t
will be ended either this week or
next
Fred Mcleod. the professional al CO.
lumbia, has just returned from a week s
visit to Philadelphia. While there he
played several times with the Nichols
brothers.
Dr. T. j. W. Brown of the Bannockburn
team had his hands full last Saturday
morning when he met the six Virginia
representatives. Because of a misunder-
standing he was the only member of his
team to be. on hand for the doubles, which
were scheduled for the morning, and as
a result Bannockburn lost Its first three
matches by default doc" challenged
the whole bunch, but was rather badly
beaten.
The program of Edward Ray and Harry
Vardon, the British professionals who are
going to tour this country in the fall, lis
fast being filed. and if the local clubs ex-
pect to get these two to Washington to
meet Sargent and Mcleod they had bet
ter be getting busy. The next club TO
come out with an announcement that the
r. -, t. s1.,
Baltusrol Club of New York which is
now raising a purse to match them with
Jerome D. Travers the national amateur
champion, and George Low. former met
ropolitan champion, September IL.
The summer schedule of golf events for
the Columbia Country Club has been an
nounced in the form Of monthly tourna-
ments. The first one-the July tourna-
! ment-started yesterday, and will end the
/ last week in the month. Qualification
scores may be turned in between June Is
and July :. a playerbeing allowed to turn
in many as he desires. The events will
be handicap ones. there being as many
sixteens as the entries call for. with prizes
for the winner and runner-up of each, A
player will start as many holes up as
half the difference between his handical
and that of his opponent. One round will
be played each week, which will make
each tourna ment end at the close of the
when the qualifying scores for the next
tournament are to be handed in.
On FRIDAY there will be special events
at each of the clubs. IInpromptu affairs
will probably be arranged at the Wash
ington Country Club and at Bannockburn
while Chevy Chase expects to arrange for
an 1S-hole handicap match against par
for the morning and a 36-hoie medal play
for the whole day, player being al
to 70 In mn NJ
are also being made at Columbia, but
| nothing has been announced as yet.
The Country Club of Virginia players
who met Bannockburn at Columbia Sat
urday. stayed over a day and met a team
representing Columbia in :56-hole matches
each side winning three matches. Vir-
ginia was represented by F. J. q. Mac
kay, Stewart Jones, ". H. Palmer. GEES
ner. Harrison. r. Fleming and Joseph
Taylor. white Columbia was represented
by f. b. Eynon. jr.; Daniel Il. jackson
II. c. Bridgers of the Country Club OF
Virginia, A.. E. Shelton, Alpheus Winter,
and George P. James. The local team ex-
poets to make the southerners A return
visit in a couple of weeks and play the
tie off.
An interesting foursome was played
f. Curtis. assistant secretary of the
Urea sury. and Count de Sibcur defeated
Moryen Thompson and Ormsby Mccain
mon by up. The winners card was
seventy-four. which was exceptionally
good, and amounted to practically every
hole being made In par figures.
Yesterdays "home-and-home' match.
which was played between Columbia
and Baltimore Country Club over the
Columbia course. was originally sched-
uled to be played at Chew Chase. but
Baltimore objected to cor;iT. to Wash
ington to play. AS the Maryland Coun-
try Club course--which is the only other
one in Baltimore-is only a nine-hole
one, if the local team went to Balti-
more it would have had to have played
over the Baltimore Clubs own course.
which it did not want to do The two
finally decided to toss up to see whether
the match would be played on the Bal
timore course or over that of Columbia,
and Columbia won.