Evening star., 1913-10-20
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

The golf season will practically end
Saturday. when the Columbia Country
Clubs annual fall tournament will be
brought to close. That this will be
a most auspicious ending is assured,
as the coming event will undoubtedly
eclipse any other previous one ever
held locally Entries are now pouring
in. forty-four having been received al
ready, and as most of the golfers wait
until the last minute to send in their
names at least 125 are expected to be
In when entries close Tuesday evening
Jerry" TraverS, the national cham
pion. has entered. and many other out
of town stars have promised to do so,
the following having already sent in
their blanks: H. F. Burket of Finley,
Ohio: E. A. Mitchell Wilmington Coun-
try Club; Albert II. Howard, Woodland; !;
James l.. Taylor, Garden City: Freder-
ick l.. Snare of Englewood, N. j., also
president of the Havana Golf Club,
Cuba +. S. Mclaughlin. Jersey City,
and Gus Ober, Baltimore Country Club.
AS has been stated before i'm these
columns. Francis Ouimet. the young
Brookline golfer who recently won the
open title. has promised to enter if it
was possible for him to do So and DR..
Walter Ha rban, chairman of the green
committee. has written him asking if
he will be here. Nearly every member
of Columbia is anxiously waiting for
his reply, which it is hoped will be
in the shape of an entry. Because of
the large number of entrants expected,
the qualification round will be at
eighteen instead of at thirty six holes,
the regular program of starting match
play Friday and ending the tourna
ment Saturday to be followed. The
popular all day handicap match at
eighteen holes. medal play. will be held
Saturday. no finalist or semi -finalist
being eligible to compete. Golfers
must not forget that entries close
Tuesday evening at o'clock.
Neither Of the local entrants Mrs c.
L. Frailey and Miss Lacey, both of the
Chevy Chase Club, showed up very well
i'm the national championships which
were played at Wilmington, Del. dur
ing the past week. although both
entrant in this event in Miss Mildred
t-ayeriy. She entered from Philadel
phia club.
Fred Mcleod. the Columbia Country
Club professional. does not seem to be
In good form this year, as his work in
many of the tournaments has been
quite a disappointment. Mcleod. who
is former national champion, can
play a much better game than ne mas
shown recently In the western cham
pionships, held on the Memphis. Tenn;
Country Clubs course Thursday and
Friday. he finished seventh. At the end
of the first days play he was in
eleventh place. eleven strokes behind
the leader, McDermott. two-time ma
tional champion. On the last thirty
six holes McDermott bettered his
scores and won by seyen-stroke mar
gin, Mcleod lettering MS position py
four places finishing in seventh, just
outside the money. which went TO the
first FIVE. His total for the four rounds
was 313, eighteen strokes behind the
winner.
Several changes have been planned
in the course of the Washington Coun-
try club and these have been made,
but not yet put in effect. The fifteenth.
sixteenth and seventeenth holes have
been changed SO that the seventeenth
and eighteenth will not cross, this also
lengthening two of them. These new