The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1914-05-24

golfers enter
LOCAL TOURNEY
One Hundred Experts VIII
Compete for District
Title In June.
MANY PRIZES OFFERED
Contestants to Play Seyentystwo Holes
MANY PRIZES OFFERED
Contestants to Play Seventy.two Holes
Medal Play-Association Rules
to Govern.

10 SOtGTQ.
Nearly 100 golfers win be entered in
the first annual championship tourna-
ment of the District of Columbia Golf
Association. which will be held over
the course of the Columbia Country Club,
June 10 and II. and judging from the
great interest shown by local players
the tourney win be a great success.
One Of the many prizes offered is the
championship trophy donated by J. H.
de Siboalr and W. 8. Reyburn, both of
the Chevy Chase Club. which viii remain
the property of the association until II
has been won three times by the same
player. when it viii become his perman>
ent property.
In addition to having his name and club
inscribed on the championship trophy.
the winner Of ytheEtourney will receive
a handsome gold medal. while the sec
ond best player will be awarded a silver
medal and the member ranking third will
receive q. bronze, medal.
Members of the clubs constituting the
association residing = in or within thirty
miles OF the District for period of at
least three months In every year, with
club handicaps Of twelve or less, are the
only players eligible to compete in the
championship. As.s "a
Play will be at seventy-two holes,
medd play, the contestant making the
lowest total score being the champion
and the players making the sixteen low
est scores win be the ranking sixteen"
for the District for the ensuing year. A
tie silvslying the first second and third
place viii be decided by an eighteen-hole
playpff, while all other ties will be played
OF IT the end of the second days play.
Alpheus Winter, a member of the ex-
ecufave committee, said that the rules of
eolfsas authorized by the United States
COL Association supplemented by the
Ioca rules of ties Columbia Club. will
govern in all cases.
Entries will close with Secretary A.
wiifer, of Columbia, June S. The privi-
legss of the Columbia course are. ex-
tended nee to all bona fide contestants
from June 9 to Il, inclusive.
Members of the Banncckburn Golf Club
VIII hold a handicap medal COMPETE
ton next Saturday on the new course
near Cabin John bridge. As this win
be The first event held on the new links
it q expected that a large crowd win
be cut and the tourney will undoubtedly
be 81 big success -
FIRST and second prizes will be award.
ed xhe winners.S1Se--s -
Columbia Country Club win hold IT'S
first monthly gold tournament June. ],
and according to- lAipheus Winter the
members have shown much Interest In
decentralization round which will close.
May 90. Ia 1870. =. :
sixteen lowest gross seeres will make
up the first SIXTEEN, and there will be
as many sixteens as there are rnultiples
: of sixteens Three handsome sprizes win
be awarded M esch.class, the first be-
ing for the winner, rpnher-up. and the
consolat idB: event. -, ~ ~
These touraess win be- held during
July. AssrstS and ssptember.
Dr. wslters Harlan, chairman Of the
green's committee at Columbia. is SPEND
ingsleyery effost 'to.sget the course N
esshape for the DISTRICT. Of Columbia
10 snd II. IN The epinfon of many OF
theImemhers the course is already. in
better conditions than ever before at this
time. of the year.
Members ofths Columbia Country Club
Will hold Decoration Day medal handi-
cap competition next Saturday, when
nearly 100 golfers will be entered. Four
prizes will be donated by the club, the
first two going 10 the lowest gross and
lowest net scores. in the morning round,
and the others being for the lowest. net
andaowest gross scores in the afternoon
play -i-~
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F5W. Collins, of the Bannockburn Golf
Club, while playing in the handicap event
of the Washington Country Club golf
tournament recently got a. one on. the
twelfth hole. which is, considered hard
four-hole. Collins used his elect, and the
ball struck the side OF the bank and
rolled down on the green into the hole
This was a remarkable shot and will
probably not be equaied IN years. Col
linsr score in the handicap>was IS gross,
and, with a 5ie. handicap, made total
Of g. 1920.
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Ldeal golfers were pleased to hear that
the columbia Country Chbfs team. COM
posed of John c. Davidson, W. c. Bal
lantyne, Eddie B. Eynon. jr.i George p.
James, and DIR. Lee L. Harlan, won the |
team trophy in the qualification round of
the annual championship tournament of
the Middle Atlantic Golf Association at
the Country Club of Virginia, at Rich
mond, last week. -
In addition to- these members, all of
whom finished in the first sixteen, o. II.
Wood, also qualified in the honor sixteen.
DR.. Lee Harlan. with a score of 1s9, Lessi
the members Of the local club.
In Fridays play, however. all Of the |
Washington players were eliminated In.
match play. W. C.. Baliantyne, who has
been playing beautiful golf this season.
was the only member to survive the first
-lound and he lost to George Small, Balti-
more. in the second frame.
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