Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-06
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES FROM THE
LOCAL CLUBS.

Tomorrow will be big day at all OF
the local clubs as holiday events have
been planned and practically the whole
day will be spent on the links by most
followers OF the royal and ancient"
game. Chevy Chase will hold an ''elec-
tic'' competition. This will be handi-
cap, the entrants to play two rounds at
eighteen holes and to select their best
score from each hole, the player having
the best net score to be given prize
offered by the club. There also will be
a second prize for the next best score.
In addition to this the golf committee
has arranged an eighteen hole handi-
cap match against par for those who do
not care to compete in the Eclectic"
event. There will be two prizes given in
this latter competition also. In both
events. the entrants must post their
names before starting and must have
their scores in by Z o'clock.
Probably one of the most elaborate
programs is planned by the Washington
Country Club. In addition to the COM
petition for the Birney cup, open to
net-score winners of the Saturday
Sweepstakes there will be a miniature
tournament. The qualification round will
be at nine holes. with starting points at
both the first and the seventeenth holes.
Three Fights will qualify for match play
and there will be prizes for the winner
and runner-up OF each eight.
Bannockburn also has scheduled two
events-a tombstone tournament and a
putting contest In the former the en-
trants play number of strokes equal
to par for the course plus their handi-
cap and plant tomb where they
die" the one living the longest being
the winner. The putting contest is for
a cup put up by the club in 1911. which
must be won three times before becorn-
ing the permanent property Of the win
ner It was won in 1911 by Herbert r.
Clarke, in 1912 by Eddie Brooke and last
year by George T. Cunningham. In this
putting contest the players putt from
nine different positions on the green.
There will be qualification round fol-
lowed by match play-all on the same
green from the various positions.
Columbia and the Washington supur-
the former not having yet fully decldea,
while the latter's event will be In the
shape of a handicap event at eighteen
holes, medal play.
Chevy Chase has decided not to hold
j.. caddv tournament this year. Hereto
fore the caddies have been landscapes.
prizes have been put up and the course
has been turned over to them TOT ua!'
Five Of the best at Chevy chase nave or.
ganized a team" however, and expect
TO challegne similar teams from the otner
clubs It is understood they are planning
to challenge the caddies at Columpia
in the near future.
Eight Washington players-John David
son Eddie Eynon. George James. Aiph-
ems Winter, Ed MARROW. l.. y. sinclair
Arthur Shelton and Harris N. Brown
spent an enjoyable day at the Baltimore
Club TUESDAY Ihsy no 'a'ed
all kinds of matches and comDlnatloils.
hut yrobablv the most interesting WAS
the foursome between Winter ana DaVlu
son and James and Eynon. They piasso
two rounds In the morning Que ' at
The enteenth, when Davidson squared
the match for his side by win OF tne
eighteenth, while the same thing ShouIa
have happened in the Afternoon. oan ii..
and Fynon were again j up at the sew
enteenfh and Davidson was on the green
in two. with no one else apparently III
the running but James dld the uheApeSI
ed and after going into the WOODS on ms
Are. and in the tall grass on his second
he SINK long putt for a 4, Davidson
missing a foot putt for WH1' "nisn
would have made them ali-eVen ior the
thirty-Six holes.
,ockhurn which started yesterday, Is 10
he different from those OF other Hlonls'
The entrants pair up and play ioursones,
hest hall 70 count The handicaps OF tne
nairs are added together and tne iow
handicap team has to start It's oppoueiies
a number of holes up equal to one
third of the difference in strokes.
rohn Davidson won an interesting
threesonae from Dr. Lee Harlan and Ut.
Otis Wood at Columbia Monday AFTER
noon. Both he and Or. Lee peat Wooo'
the real match being between tne TWO;
Harlan was / up at the sixteenth anu
apparently had the nlatch won Mho 81
Davidson squared things up oy a Mih
the seventeenth and then captured tne
.hona hole" when the doctor hooked
his drive to the trap, trouA WHICH "o h'sA
hard work getting out
Earl Wheeler won the low gross score
nrjze in last weeks sweepstakes at the
W. sh;nrton Country Club with an so.
T orr nef was won by G. Landon. whose
oross was 90 with IA off, for Il rs W. H. |
wooauan and H. Ct. Brown tied for sec |
md low net with 79's. Last weeks WIN |
ming scores are the highest which have
won since the events started.
On account of the bad weather OF last |
week, the qualification round of the Sep
TENDER tournament OF the Columbia |
Country Club was extended and did not !,
close until last night. The drawings will |
he made and posted today and match |
NAV started tomorrow. 1t is expected |
there will lie Ave sixteens this month, as |
several of the players who have been