Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-10
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local. Clubs

John L. Weaver was host to an auto
mobile party last week, taking ex-Com-
missioner Rudolph and Mrs. Rudolph and
Otto Leubkert and Mrs. A. T. Tyssowski
to Baltimore to the Baltimore Country
Club, where thirty-six holes of golf were
played
This is the off season for golf, and
there is very little doing at the various
clubs, many of the players being away
for the summer months Columbia is
holding monthly tournaments, and Is
having no trouble in getting four six
teens, but these summer events. which
have been held at the other clubs in
former years, have been discontinued
this year, and SO the only golf played at
them is an occasional match arranged
between the players.
The round-robbin tournament at Ban
nockburn is rapidly coming to a close
and will probably not last any longer
than the middle Of this MONTH There
ors, and the winner will not be known
until the records of all matches played
are in. In this event every entrant plays
every other entrant.
The Washington Country Club is now
dickering for two more acres of ground
on which it will build shed for auto
mobiles and probably six additional ten
HIS courts. lie net game mas gained SO
much in popularity at the suburban club
| that the courts now in use are not nearly
sufficient for the large number Of play
ers.
Mrs. Ormsby McCammon and Mrs. G.
Is. Summerlin, two prominent golfers at
the Chevy Chase Club, are now away on
a visit at Thousand Islands They are
the guests of Gen. and Mrs. John A.
Johnston. Both ladies took their clubs
nit y, fhor q nd Mo a
golf.
George Sargent left last night and Fred
Mcleod this morning. for New York,
where the two Will compete in the Metro
politan open championships to be held
Wednesday and Thursday at the Garden
City Golf Club. Sargent was fourth and
Mcleod fifth in last years event. The
, match Will be at seventy-two holes,
medal play. The Canadian championships
will be held the same week and Sargent,
the present title holder. will be unable to
defend his title in this event this year.
Both he and Mcleod will probably take
in the open event to be held on August
Shawnee-on-the-Dela Pa. This will
also be a seventy-two-hole event. with
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. prize money divided
among the first eight players. In this
tournament Harry vardon. five times
British champion, and Edward Ray, the
present title holder. will compete, and
Americans will get good line on just
how good they really are. 1t would not
be at all surprising if they were beaten.
as they were on their own links when
they beat the Americans, and this time
! the Americans will be at home.
An interesting foursome was played at
Columbia Friday afternoon, when Daniel
X. jackson and G. III. Chasmer defeated
Capt Coles and A1pheus Winter, 1 up.
The match was decided on the home hole,
both jackson and Chasmer making par 4.
The July tournament at Columbia has
not been closed yet, J. A. Shaner cd
and W. J. Eynon 90 not having played
their match for top honors in the fourth
sixteen. In the first sixteen ]. Floyd
Cissell (o4 won from Henry l.. West
Q8). up and 6 to play. The players
showed quite reversal OF form. Clsseii
winning with the greatest of ease. West
started him up and Cissell received
next twelve and ending the notch.
The chances are that the proposed
scheme of bringing Harry Vardon and
Edward Ray to Washington to meet
George Sargent and Fred Mcleod will
fall through, as those most interested
have done nothing further toward making
anv plans or trying to create interest
in the scheme. The professional match
between the local cracks and the Nichols
brothers. which was held last month. and
which attracted nearly every golfer in
the city. showed how well match
like this would take. and at that time 1t
was suggested that the various clubs CO.
operate in bringing the Engiish cracks
be, as near here as Philadelphia, where
the,- mill meet the Nichols brothers this