Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20
GOLFERS
SEPTEMBER TOURNEY
Many Matches Played in Past
Week-Schedule Nearly Up
to Date.

The past week has been a record
breaker for close matches in the Sep
TENDER tournament of the Columbia
Country Club. Good progress was made
and the schedule is now nearly up to
date.
Herbert Shannon and r. E. L. Yellott
furnished the feature match OF the
first sixteen, playing thirty-six holes
and still an-even. a third round be-
ing necessary. Yellott, by the rules
governing the event which require the
low handicap man to start his oppo-
nent a number of holes up equal 10
half the difference in their handlcaps'
conceded Shannon two holes at the
start and after he squared the match
at the tenth hole they alternated'
shannon being l up at the seven
teenth, but losing the home hole for
half. In the second round, the play
was somewhat different. Shannon won
the second and then lost the next three.
sqraring the match. He won the hfth
and ninth. lost the sixth ana seventh
and halved the eighth, making 1t still
of the next four and the other two
were halved when Yellott rallied and
took the fourteenth and fifteenth. The
sixteenth was haIved, making 1eilott
the next two, squaring the match. AT
the home hole shannon ran down
ten-foot putt.
Another Close Battle.
Another close match was that be-
tween Charles Selden and Hugh Nc
Kenzie in the first round of the thiro
sixteen, three eighteen-hole ROUNDS
being necessary before winner could
be decided upon. The former finally
got the decision, up and 2.
T. O. varnell and John NJ. Williams
furnished a good match in the second
winning, up. Varnell started his OPP
ponent up, but had the match
squared at the eighth hole, which he
won with pretty 8. From there on
it was nip and tuck" affair, Varnell
finally getting a lead and being / up
on the seventeenth. On the eighteenth
tee, both men drove out of bounds,
but varnell got the best second drive
and took the hole in to Williams D.
The Summaries.
FIRST SIXTEEN.
First round-Herbert I. Shannon and r. f. L;
Yellott ended two rounds t36 holes) all even and
smother 5oud H,rssa M B.
seesad seunaAE. Lodge a!,l defeated at Nail &C. C.
Chamberlain, up and 3; Otto J. De MOL de-
feated DIR. Lee L. Harlan. up ana 4.
First round-A. Y Leech, jr., defeated A J;
Cummings. up and 3; W. W. Price dete ,a,ea
w. c. Ballantyne. 4 up and >; r NJ fheips
Second round-A. Y. Leech, IT,. defeated q. y;
blackstone and 8; J. slaren p asleaf dsl
fsaiss n " watts essey up r ur and
defeated Harris n. Brown, up and B.
THIRD SIXTEEN
First round-John NJ Williams defeated Frank
Smith, by default; Edward .. Leech defeaied 4;
Ii.
q n Orme. by default: s. A. Reeves defeated
Leo C. brooks. BY default; Tom W. Brahaney
Second round2T. o. Varneii defeated John NJ.
Williams, up: s. A. Reeves defeated E. 3.
DE fssts Gray K;r, up G spd u G up and 3
FOURTH SIXTEEN.
First rouud-w. E. Fowler defeated J. New.
man Perry. by default; W. =: fiem'ng ae,eaiea
Eugene Colt. up and z; Charles "a Sei9en, y;
defeated Hugh Mackenzie, up ano z nj On
Second roundup Frank Leech defeated R. F.
Wilson. 2 up; F. J. Haskin oeiea'eu W. T.
Fowler, up and 2.
CoNsoL ATIoNs-FIRST SIXTEEN.
First round-Arthur I. Clark and Arthur b.
Shelton ended all even at end of eighteen holes
and another round is necessary.
SECOND SIXTEEN.
First round-A / Cummings defeated r. L.
Corby. 2 up: George II. Caldwell defeated ].
A. schafrer 8 up and 2; A. NJ Bum defeated t
W ynils G. Ba Erank Govern, ap and s.
THIRD SIXTEEN.
First round-Leo c. Brooks defeated Charles
H. Orme, by default
FOURTH SIXTEEN.
First round-H. A. Lewis drew bye.
This Weeks Card.
Tho second and semi-dnal rounds OF
the various sixteens and the firSt and