Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-13
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES FROM THE
LOCAL CLUBS.

1 ditions of the past week have inter
] fered with play in the harvest home
tournament now being played at Ban
: nockburn. and but few matches wer'
gotten out of the way, the following
being the only results turned in:
THIRD ROUND.
f. ". Burton Q5 defeated z. G.. Parker o.
! by up: William Henry White COZ defeate
II chsssy aS By ug Dr. Bar
1 up.
CONSULTATIONS.
First round-Mat: Butler defeated Maj. MOI
By default John ads
L. Warren by 2 up and to play.
Butier by up; N. Dorsett defeated B. n
Davis by up and to p play; John % s. ,o Mo
Nearly all of the new golf courses
being planned include a practice hole
and practice putting green. these
extras in close proximity to the club
house being the very latest things in
their line. The extra hole is useful not
only as a practice ground prior to the
starting Of match. but it serves also
for the giving of lessons to beginners
and others; while the practice putting
green with number Of holes somewhat
under the regulation size) needs no argu-
rnent in its favor.
COlumD1a mas QeClueO tIldl the 1918
course record of seventy-three strokes
made by Daniel K. Jackson in the quail
fication round of the July tournament was
made in regularly authorized event
and has accepted it. and so Jackson's
name, with these of Walter r. Tuck
erman and Walter J. Travis. will appear
on the PLAQUE in the clubhouse, which
shows the best scores made over the
course each year. Tuckermans 10 was
made in the second days play for the
:; tot 1,ila LII
of the game" turned in his 10 in the
qualification round of the fall tourney
The plaque was put up in 1912 and
John Davidson was the first to have
his name on it. his II. which is, by the
way, the amateur record. being the best
of that year. Last year Jerome Trav-
ers took the honors with a rs.
Al important meeting of the Ban
nockburn Golf Cub was held last Sat
Jonn L. Warren. At this meeting it
was decided to occupy the grounds at
Chevy Chase, as well as the new ones
near Cabin John bridge. for the re-
mainder of the winter. 1t also was de-
cided to connect water mains. electric
light poles, etc, at the new club with
those of the city, and contracts for
this work already have been let.
The tie in the Handicap VS.. Par"
event Of the Thanksgiving day tourna-
ment at Columbia was finally played on
last week. D. B. Gish winning with w.
J. Mentally second and J. E. Baines
third. The prizes were one box of golf
balls or equivalent, wooden club, and
an iron club, respectively.
An odd feature of the Washington
Country Club course has been brought
out on the last two holidays. when the
club has divided it into two nine-hoIe
courses and held miniature tournaments
In order to do this a rearrangment of
the sequence CT holes has been neces-
sary SO as to make the ninth hole in each
case end at the clubhouse. Under this
scheme the first five holes are used on
the first course (going out), what is now
the thirteenth is changed to the sixth,
while the fourteenth, fifteenth and six
teenth are used as the seventh, eighth
and ninth, respectively. The second
course. or coming In, uses the seven
teenth as the tenth, the twelfth as the
eleventh, and Mes. six, seven, eight, nine.
ten and eleven are played as twelve,
fourteen, fl teen, sixteen
and seventeen, with eighteen remain
ing the same. This arrangement
makes two separate nine hole courses.
each of which starts and finishes at the
clubhouse. Par is exactly the same.
while there is very little difference in
The length.
This plan. which was followed merely
Is temporary one in order to run OF