Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-30

| declared the winner. III the event Is held
] III conjunction with the championship
| tourney the plan Is for thirty-six holes
eighteen in both morning and afternoon
/, to be played the day before the touria-
ment. the last eighteen to be the quail
| ficaton round of the event. Both OF
| these plans have their hackers. and a
warm time is anticipated when the mat
| ter is brought up.
Miss Eva Baker and Mrs. James r.
Mewshaw won the first and second eights.
respectively, in the closed handicap wom-
ems tournament which ended at Colum
bia last week. Miss Bakers up and !;
victory over MISS Lucia i. Williams in
the final round of the first eight was
| easily the surprise of the event. as many
picked Miss Williams to win and none ex-
pected her to get beaten so badly. The
ending of the second eight proved to be
much closer. Mrs. Mewshaw beating Mrs.
Claud 5. Watts. . up and 1. Miss Baker
won silver loving cup, while Mrs. New
| shaw received silver picture frame. As
runners-up. Miss Williams was given a
silver card tray. while Mrs Watts drew
down a Silver-mounted clock. Mrs. c.
| Arthur Slator was in charge of the event
and she is receiving congratulations from
all sides on the businesslike way in
which ii was run.
Washington Country Club is getting
ready for the closed season and the
players will be put on the winter greens
this week. The new greens made neces-
sary because Of the changes in the
course are now in fairly good shape
and will be ready for use in the spring.
George p James, the newly elected
| captain of the Columbia Country Club
team. has been away on business for the
past two weeks, but is back now and
may be seen almost any afternoon knock
ing the little white pill around.
With the s.Siamese cup tourney
thing of the past. Chevy Chase has no
other club events scheduled until next
June, with the exception of the regular
weekly handicaps and possibly closed
ones on Christmas or New Year. The
next important closed event to be held
is for the IF. Oden Horstmann memorial
cup'-an event at seventy-two holes.
medal play.
Fred Mcleod will spend the winter in
New Orleans. He is not expected hack
at Columbia until April 1.
Miss Burbage won the closed women )
handicap tournament at Bannoc.,burn
which ended last week. Mrs. Moulton
being the runner-up. There was but one
SlAlccil III liitS tNeEl- MIS-. lie fdrgeS and
Miss Herring tied for the qualification
round prize. and the tie-off will be de-
cided this week.
Morven Thompson and Ormsby Mccain
mon played Col. Ladd. Gen. Weaver and
Col. Hearne an interesting match at
Chevy Chase Thursday, winning, up.
| The Eannockburn Golf Club will hold
| its annual meeting next Saturday even
ing in the offices of President John l..
Warren in the Southern building. The
| management of the club is in the hands
| of a board of nine governors, three of
" HON are elected each year. The three
who are elected Saturday evening will,
with the six already serving. select the
officers for the ensuing year. In addi-
ton TO this. there will probably be
several amendments to the constitution
A special meeting was held last week to
talk over plans for the clubhouse at the
new course near Cabin john bridge hut
nothing definite was decided upon. as the
building committee has not yet made its
report.
BY this time the vast army Of golfers
throughout the country have had time TO
digest the changes in the rules of the
United States Golf Association an
nounced al the beginning of the season.
Though there We're many changes most
of them had to do largely with verbiage:
still change in rules is rarely considered
deeply by golfers until actually tried out
or studied after having been put in con-
crete form. In some quarters one of the
changes has caused adverse criticism.
This is with regard To rule l. paragraph
q of General and Through the Green"
and reads: "A player is entitled al any
time during the play of hole TO ascer
tain from his opponent the number of
strokes the latter has played IL the OPP
! civ la ivTa rho Hon, Of
strokes he has played he shall lose the
hole, unless he corrects his mistake be-
fore the PLAYER has played another
stroke" Such q regulation. IT is argued,
seems neither necessarr nor desirable. y
mistake might be made quite inEocently
and relnedied af.erward, but this rule is
declared to amount to an aspers.on on
the sportsmanship of those in the game.
To the mind of one golfer l. suggests n
story of two men who were having a day
on the links. Leaving the first green.
one asked: ''How many strokes did you
take?" How many did YOU take?' que
ried the other. oh" replied the first.
Il asked you frst.'' Another player
seems to think that there are fast be-
coming too many rules and that il would
be desirable to nave = briefer code. He
adds: When golfer pauses to reflect
on the matter of rules he realizes that
for practically everything person is en-
titled to do on a golf course there is
some KIND or law lald down IN DIack
and white. We are told what We may
do as well as what we must do and what
we must not do. But how many golfers
could quote the actual rule governing
every shot they play? The rules are
known In the spirit. but not in the let
ter They have been acquired through
the medium of that elemental instinct
which enables one to differentiate be-
tween right and wrong. In these circum-
stances one would think that a much
shorter code would be sufficient but the
multiplicity of rules appears to be due
to the great variety OF contingencies
possible i'm the game which cannot be
classified either as right or wrong. but
which come into the halfway house cat
egory of doubtful
Chevy Chase will hold handicap
match against par as its next Saturday =
event These are proving very popular.
A balf-dozen golf balls are the prize-four