Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-27
COLUMBIA GOLFERS
July Handicap Down to Finals
at the Country Club.
ENDS UP THIS WEEK
Cissel and West Leaders in the First
Sixteen and Gilbert and Lap
ham in Second.

This week Will see the emo OF tho pop
ular July Tournament at the Columbia
Country Club. as the seni-final rounds Of
the four sixteens were completed last
night. ]. Floyd Cissel ca and Henry l..
West (1s) being the winners in the first
sixteen, William o. Gilbert q6) and j.
e. IApham (2D coming out ahead In the
second sixteen, Frank Govern (2D and
Harold e. Doyle u6) being the winners
in the third and J. A. Shaffer (22) and
w. J. Eynon Q0 reaching the final
bracket in the fourth.
Almost all Of these matches were good
ones. that between ]. Floyd Cissel and
r. w. Cox In the first sixteen being one
Of the best. Cissel winning by up and
to play, at thirty-six holes. The rules
governing the handicaps in this tourna-
ment provide tat the better player shall
start his opponent as many holes up
as half the difference In their handicaps.
80 when the players are all even at the
end of the first eighteen holes. another
round Is necessary. Cox has been kept
unusually busy in this tourney. as he had
to play fifty-four holes before winning
out in his second round match.
The first eighteen holes were played
Thursday afternoon and Cox looked very
much like the winner up to the very last
hole. which he lost when Cissel laid him
| stynlie. Cissel played one Of the best
round of this match in eighty-one. Cox
started him i up and was down when
Cissell won the first hole. The second.
third and fourth were halved, Cissel be-
coming up by taking the next three.
The next three holes which Cox won
brought out the best playing Of the
match, when he buried q twelve-foot putt
Tor win of the seventh. fifteen-foot
one for a win of the eighth and then
capped the climax by running down a
ninth. making him only / down at the
turn. The next two were divided. Cissel
making 1t ) up by capturing the twelfth
and thirteenth. The fourteenth was
teenth, when Cox lost 1t, his opponent
running down a long putt.
Gilbert Beats Hill.
The second sixteen furnished a good
match when William O. Gilbert, 1e
handicap, defeated e. Lodge Hill. rated
at Ii, by 3 up and 2 to play. Throughout,
the match, Gilbert's putting featured as
on no greens did he take more than two
puts, while on four greens one was sufii-
cient. On the thirteenth. he took the
hole in a pretty by running down a
OtduIi1ui SC-iOOt Sloe nil putt. Hill
putting was as bad as his opponents was
good. as he lost no less than three holes
through carelessness In missing puts OF
less than two feet. He started Gilbert :
up, but by winning the first, fifth
| seventh. eighth and ninth; losing the
fourth and sixth. and halving the othel
| two, he was UP at the turn. The tenth
eleventh and twelfth were halved. Gilber
putting on steam and taking the mex
| four for the match.
| The only other extra-hole affair wa
that between Harold e. Doyle and ]. p
Mewshaw in the third sixteen, Doyle win
ming 2 up and to play. at thirty-six holes
Doyle started his opponent up and wal
| just able to catch him In the first eighteeT
holes. but on their second trip over thu
course he played a much better game anG
| was able to overtake Mewshaw and wiz
rather handily.
| The dnal round of the event will b.
played of this week and the Angus
Tournament" which has just been an
nounced. will be gotten under way. Cards
| for this tournament for the qualifying
round may be turned in up until Au
gust 8.
Summaries.
IN. Y,,l,