Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-21
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS

lie WOTk OIL tie tuTtc iOSdi pioitSSioh-
ais in the national open championships
at Brookline last week was quite dis
| appointment to the followers of the
game, as a great deal was expected of
them. Beckett of the Washington Coun-
| try Club is still youngster, but both
Sargent and Mcleod are former winners
of the event, and as they both have been
| practicing for it for some time and were,
when they left here the early part of
last week, right on top of their game,
and their poor showing cannot be ex-
planned. For a month prior to the tour
nament Mcleod had been seriously ill,
but 1t was thought when he left for
Brookline that he had entirely recovered.
| This may not have been the case, how
ever, and he may have broken under the
strain of such strenuous golf. In the
qualification round he finished nineteenth
and when the final round had been COM
pleted he had been pushed way down the
| list to the thirty-fifth position. Sargent
| finished up we'll in his qualification round.
being tied for fourth place. and it looked
| as If he would at least hold this position,
as he was going like house afire.' but
| he. too. blew up and could do no better
! than twenty second
President Wilson and DR.. Gary T.
Grayson, his physician, played another
match at Columbia the early part of the
week, the men being all-even at the end
of the fifteen holes played. They played
the first fourteen holes and then went
over to the eighteenth and finishd. Pres-
dent Wilson squared the match by taking
the home hole with a pretty ), but a
stroke over par.
Doll xr,;,nr nF he
Middle Atlantic title over such golfers as
Wolcott Tuckerman. B. Warren Corkran
and other cracks, Is back in town after a
long vacation and is getting in shape
again He will be a great help to the
Columbia team in the "home d-home''
matches when they are resumed the
early part of next month.
Morven Thompsone chairman of the
green committee at Chevy Chase and the
| committee to arrange the schedule for
| the continuance of the ''home-and- HON"
| matches, returned from his vacation last
/ Sunday. He has been busy at his office
| getting the work which accumulated
while he was away in shape, and did
not get chance to get out on the links
until yesterday. He will probably call a
meeting soon to decide upon the "home-
and-home" matches. There still remains
| an unplayed match in the first round
that between Chevy Chase and the Vir-
GINA Country Club-and play in the other
| rounds cannot be completed until this
match is gotten out of the way.
/ Walter Harlan left town yesterday to
! take in the last two days of the Brookiine
tournament. He expected while there to
| see some more players about coming to
1 compete in Columbia's tournament next
month. 1t is quite likely that Walter
Travis. who at first promised to compete,
4 will not be a contestant, as word has
/
| there is now some doubt as to whether
| he will be able to get here. but that he
| will come if he possibly can. Jerry
| Travers and Fred Herreshoff will be here
and DR.. Harlan expects to announce def
nitely the names of several others of
note who have promised to be on hand
when he returns today from Brookline.
The Congressional golf match. which
| has been talked of a great deal lately,
| will probably be played over the Column
| bia Country Club course September -.
| Capt. w. f. Oglesby of the Representa-
| tives has picked his team and many of
/ the members are practicfng daily. 1t will
be made up of the following representa-
| tives: Whaley of South Carolina. GIL
| lette of Massachusetts,, Townsend Of
New Jersey. Connolly of Iowa. Treadway
of Massachusetts,. Underwood of Ala
bama. Prouty of Iowa. Fitzgerald
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sas and Capt. Oglesby of New York. The
| Senatorial team, captained by Senator
| Hollis, has not announced its personnel.
According to present arrangements, there
| will be twelve players to side, singles
matches only to be played, the scoring
! to be done by the 'nassu' system-one
| point for each of the two nine holes and
one point for the whole eighteen.
| ]. c. Moore of Bannockburn is out on
4 the links again after absence OF
| nearly two months because of serious
operation.
Alexander SANDY Britton of Chevy
| Chase has been out of town for the past
| few days and is expected back tomorrow.
/ He has heard nothing further from Ray
| nnd Vardon regarding the proposed match
| between them and Sargent and Mcleod.
| A recent press dispatch from New York
stated that the Englishmen would leave
| for England almost Immediately. and
| that this match would not be played, but
| local golfers are hoping that this is a
will appear here. IF they come at all,
they are expected about the Goth of Oc-
| tober.
| On the form shown just before he left
| for Brooklne, great things were expect
ed of Freddie" Mcleod. A few days
| before he left, he still further reduced
| the course record by making the eighteen
holes in 67-3o out and 81 in. In July, he
| made a g. and many thought that he
would never better it. but it now looks
! as if he will be able to even better his
| 81 mark, as the third hole, which cost
him ). is 4-hole, and one that he
| usually negotiates in this number OF
strokes or less. His card follows:
i n n.. .,....... i / 1 5 ss-e7
The card for the Columbia course is
| given below in order that comparison
| may be made:
Out. ! ! ; i 49,
In addition to the nine holes which are
now completed on the new Bannock burn
| course near Cabin John Bridge, three or
| four holes on the additional nine are
being rapidly prepared, and the ground
| is now cultivated and ready to be sown
/ in grass seed. The fairgreens on the
| nine-hole course are in almost perfect
| condition.
At the last meeting of the Bannock-
burn Club it was decided that a commit
| tee be appointed to select date for next
months tournament and to manage the
| affair. This committee has not been APP
pointed yet.
| c. III. Stearns. F. H. Gillette. J. Floyd
| Cissel and L. E. Sinclair. with : down,
| tied for first prize in an impromptu
sweepstakes" event. which was held
| Friday at Columbia This was a handi-
] cap match against par. the players TAX
| ing three-fourths of their handicap. E. S.
| NARROW, A. G. Buhrman, Z. o. Gilbert,
| B. Il. Marshall, John l.. Weaver. X. w.
| Cox and Hugh Mackenzie We're the other
entrants.