Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-07-12
JULY GOLF TOURNEY
First Round Of Play Completed
at Columbia Country Club.
CHAMBERLAIN BEATS WOOD
Match Won by One Up on Thirty
Six Holes and Is Weeks
Feature.

The first round of the July tournament
has been on tap at the Columbia Country
Club during the past week. and was
practically completed yesterday after
noon.
DR.. Otis H. Wood, handicapped at II,
and H. c. Chamberlain, rated at 0, who
fought 1t out in the finals of the June
tournament, were thrown together by
the draw in the first round of the first
sixteen Of the July event, and they fur
nished the feature match of the week.
Chamberlain repeating. although 1t took
him two rounls to do it. At the end of
the first round they were all square,
and SO another eighteen holes was nee
essary. Chamberlain getting the decision
by taking the home hole. The handicap
pingfrules governing this event require the
low handicap man to start his opponent
a number of holes up equal to half the
difference in their handicaps. with a
half counting as a whole. SO that Wood
started 1 up on his opponent.
The only other extra-hole match oc-
CURED in the third sixteen, when w. r.
Pedigo and Oliver Metzerott were all
even at the end of the first eighteen
holes Metzerott started UP and made
it up by taking the first hole but it
was all even when he lost the next two
The fourth was halved, MetZerott Win
ming the fifth. seventh and eighth. and
losing the sixth and ninth, making him
still 1 up at the turn. 1t was even again
when Pedigo took the tenth. The
eleventh was halved. and then Metzerott
won one. lost two. halved one and then
won another. squarng the match the
seventeenth and eighteenth being halved.
Good Match in Seconds.
Herbert T. Shannon Gs) and Harris
n Brown G2) furnished one Of the best
matches in the second sixteen, the
former winning on the home hole.
Brown conceded Shannon two holes at
the start, and although he played his
best game he was unable to overcome
this lead, Shannon getting the decision.
up. At the beginning of the match
it looked as If Brown would win with
ease, as he won three and halver one
of the first four holes, going from
down to l up. Shannon made it all even
by winning the fifth. and he apparently
had the sixth won. too, when Brown
laid him stymie which cost him the
hole. Brown won the seventh. but lost
the next two, making the players all
even when they turned for home The
tenth and eleventh went Browns way,
the fourteenth when his opponent
missed a six-inch putt The fifteenth
went to Brown. and then Shannon was
up again by win Of the sixteenth,
which he made in 3. Brown meanwhile
going to the water on his tee shot and
then wading in and making a beautiful
out almost dead to the hole. He missed
his putt. Brown took the seventeenth
and made pretty drive from the
eighteenth tee, but his approach was
bad, which enabled Shannon to take
the hole and with 1t the match
In the fifth sixteen 7. c. Moore adj
ministered one of the worst beatings
of any of the monthly tournaments,
Hugh Mackenzie being the victim.
Mackenzie started 2 up, but was beaten
8 up. He simply could not get going,
and experienced what all golfers run
up against day when everything he
did went wrong.
The Complete Summaries.
FIRST SIXTEEN.
First ro1nd.H. c. Chamberlain (9 defeated
Dr. Otis H. Wood ID; 1 up at SO holes: Ar,
40. up and 2; Irving Smith Q9 defeated E.
"a, defeated Daniel H. Jackson 49,, by default.
SECOND SIXTEEN
First round-L d. Underwood u2) defeated O.
non as, defeated Harris a n. Bowl et de-, up;
defeated g. $. Watts d5l. 5 up and 4; F. L.
fault; Al 6. Buhrman d2) defeated Frank
Rhea ga, up.
THIRD SIXTEEN
First round-Robnson White 49, defeated F.
NJ. Phelps uS,, up and 2; L. C. Brooks u2)
defeated A. y. Lecch. j.. t22,. by default; W.
r. rsd s"s. 2o md and Oliver Mst1erott O., tied
John L.: Weaver 40 defeated II. W. Cox as,
! up; R. f. l.. Yellott f5l defeated W. H.
Moses 90: up and 3; ". ]. McNally Q6) de-
feated G B. Asher go up and 8; & G. Van
r. Lincoln defeated Charles A. Watson DO. .
up and l.
FOURTH SIXTEEN
First round-Robert Dougan CD, defeated j.
Newman ssrG B., r ETC., g. up and & Dr. Frank
9; E B. De GFaw !22l defeated Frank Govern
1s). 6 up and 5: NJ. W. Vesey taO) defeated
Frank Brown qs). up and 2; IL A. ellis
d2) defeated +. Spriggs Perry (22,. up and
2: II. Hanna uSJ defeated Eugene Colt
CA, 3 up and ..
FIFTH SIXTEEN
First rounds. A. Reeves ,24 defeated B.
r.. Hamilton la4!: by default: T. g. Moore ns)
defeated Hugh Mackenzie coy, s up; I. W.
Brahaney t24) defeated Oryille r. Drown (o2,