Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-08-30

| % the mecca OF all goi1erS, as the
national amateur championship tourna-
! ment is to be held there. and practically
all Of the golfing tent of the United
States is entered. The program calls for
the qualification round at thirty-six
| holes. medal play, to be decided tomor-
row, the thirty-two players turning in
the best scores to qualify. The remain
der Of the week will be at match play.
also at thirty-six holes. a round being
scheduled for each day. with the semi
finals Friday and the finals Saturday.
The winner will be the amateur cham
| pion for 1914 and will be given a gold
medal. his club being given the custody
Of the 'Havemeyer cup" for the year
| The runner-up will receive a silver medal
! while the other semi-dnalists will be CIV
en- bronze ones Of the same die. 1t
was at first thought that Washington
would be represented by three players
and possibly a fourth. as Walter Tucker
man, Allan Lard and William 8. Rey-
burn, all OF Chevy Chase. and John c.
| DAVIDSON of Columbia, are eligible to
compete. and the first three expected to
enter. 1t now develops that Allan Lard
will be the only Capital city entrant, as
| nelther Reyburn nor Davidson sent in
mis- name. while Tuckerman will be I'M
| aple to compete for business reasons
Lard is now at Manchester practicing
over the course, and he has the best
wishes of the local contingent He is
paired with f. S. Worthington of the
shawnee Country Club of Shawnee. Pa
! Iuckerman is paired with H. E. Ken
worthy Of the Matacomet Golf Club of
Rhode Island, but will default
| Columbia is showing lots of activity
IN the handicap line. as the green COM
m1ttee Is adjusting the handicaps every
month. Unlike most clubs this commit
tee does not confine itself to the data
submitted by the player, but it uses any
.eiapie information which comes to its
nands, and the result is that Columbia,
too has its ratings well regulated.
| The weekly Saturday events at Chevy
| Chase have been discontinued
| Word has just been received from Sec
rotary F. J. d. Mackey Of the Middle At
lanuc Golf Association that the home
| and home matches for clubs under the
association have been postponed from
October and 2 to October and Q, and
| that there also have been a few changes
in the rules governing the event. 1t will
be held over the Baltimore Country Club
| course at Roland Park, each team to be
made up of six players. The program
| follows:
| October 8, Q a.m.-Qualifcation round
at thirty-siN holes. medal play, the four
teams turning in the best aggregate
the runner-up and the first consola-
| ton cups.
| October 9, Q am.-The four teams who
qualified will be drawn against each
other and play at eighteen holes, match
| play. Nassau count. each match to a
finish. The two winning teams to play,
| the winner to be awarded the cham
| pionship cup and the loser to get the
runner-up cup. The two losing teams
will also meet and the winner will re-
ceive the first consolation cup. All
other teams will play at thirty-six holes
medal play, and the one making the best
| aggregate score will be given the second
consolation cup.
| October g. p.m-Finals for cham
pionship and first consolation cups and
second round, medal play for second
| consolation cup.
| Each club is requested to notify Secre-
| tary Mackay at Richmond, Va, not later
| enter a team. All four of the local clubs
| which are under the association expect to
send teams.
President Wilson and DIR. Grayson paid
visit to the Washington Country Club
Wednesday and played a round. While
they were on the links a heavy rain
storm came up and drenched them, but
| they apparently didn't mind, for they
| finished their match, which the President
Won
| DR.. P. L. Hodges and George P. James
won an interesting foursome from Ar
thur Shelton and Alpheus Winter at Co
lumbia last week, l up. James did the
best work. going around in seventy-five
| and scoring nine "birdies." Hodges and
| Winter counted two each, while Shelton
made one.
| George Sargent and Fred Mcleod have
| just returned from one of the most sue
cessful trips which they. especially Sar-
gent, have had in a long time. Their
| first tournament of this trip was at Lom-
| ing that came the national open event, in
| which Sargent finished second. Follow
| ing that came the national open event in
| which he and Mcleod tied for third, di-
viding third and fourth money. This
was at Chicago, and from there they went
to Minneapolis to compete in the western
| open championships held last Tuesday
and Wednesday on the Interlachen Coun-
| try Club course. Sargent, by some SEN
sational work In his last two rounds.
| tied for third place in this event, while
| Mcleod was tenth. This ends the open
events for the year.
DR.. Harry Kaufman of the Washing
| ton Suburban Club made his lowest
score last week when he turned in a A.
Had he not taken eight strokes on the
| third hole. he would have been close to
par figures.
W. s. Reyburn Of Chevy Chase is now
at his summer home at New London
Conn. While away he plays on the new
course of the Griswald House, which is
one Of the best in the country. 1t has
just recently been enlarged from nine to
eighteen holes at a cost of more than
500. 600:
The team trophy won by the Columbia
Country Club at the recent Middle At
lantic States championships, held on the
Country Club of Virginia course, has just
been received by the winners. and was
formally presented to the club by Capt.
James at meeting of the board of gov
errors Wednesday night. 1t is now on
exhibition at the clubhouse. William c.
Ballentyne. John D. Davidson. DIR. Lee
l.. Harlan. Edward B. Eynon, jr-, and
George P. James tcaptainD made up the
winning team