Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-10-29
GOOD GOLF CONTESTS IN FIRST
ROUND OF HANDICAP PLAYING
Closed Tourney of the Chevy Chase Club
Furnishes Splendid Sport for Large
Field of Entrants

Thirty-two golfers played over the
beautiful course of the Chevy Chase
Club yesterday in the opening round or
the annual fall handicap tournament for
the Presidents cup. The weather condi-
tons were almost ideal. and with one
exception the matches were hotly con-
tested, only a few strokes separating the
winners from the losers. One and pos
sibly two contests furnished surprises.
but large majority turned out as ex-
pected. the better players overcoming the
handicaps against them
Two extra-hoie matches developed and
furnished the greatest excitement of the
initial round. D. s. Barry and G. G.
Perkins had nip-and-t tuck battle all the
way round and We're all even at the
home hole. Going over to the first tee.
both got good drives, but Perkins ap-
preached better and captured the twen-
tieth hole with a short putt. making him
up and giving:-him the match. The
other extra-hole match was between
r. W. Baker and B. A Poore and really
resulted from the former getting mixed
up after his drivehon the fifth hole and
putting a strange ball into play. The
Baker ! up. and, after stating the case
to Chairman Morven Thompson of the
golf committee. the fifth hole, which had
been won by Baker, was given to Poore,
making the battle all even.
On the twentieth hole Baker did the
best work in approaching and putting
and won the match by one up.
| New Rule Promulgated.
An impromptu meeting of a majority
Of the golf committee was held near
the home hole yesterday afternoon and
it was decided by vote that hereafter
players in handicap matches who come
/; through the eighteen holes all even
will go into the extra holes and play
until one or the other wins, irrespec-
tive of the handicap. Under the old
| ruling matches We're likely to run up to
nine and. even eighteen holes on &C
count of the handicaps on the differ
.ent holes. Chairman Thompson figured
that d player with large handicap
who was able to make it all even for
eighteen holes was entitled to win on
the next hole if he could, notWithstand-
ing that that hole gave him a stroke
on his opponent. The golf committee
ruling will stand and be posted to gov
ern similar cases in handicap matches
hereafter.
All the players in the matches yes
| terday took a great deal of interest In
their work and a glance over the scores
will show that the handicapping
brought many of the contestants very
close together. j. II. de Sibour was
given the scare of his life by A. S.
Worthington on the home green, the
latter making a forty-foot putt that
carried to the edge of the hole and only
missed by a hair, the former winning
by one up.
S. p. Knutt the splendid steeplechase
rider of a few years back and owner
OF Twilight, is one of the players in
the tourney. and won his match yes
terday, defeating H. M Southgate, 4
up and 3. Mr.. Knutt takes to golf as
he did to timber-topping, and promises
to give good account of himself in
this tournament.
| j. l.. Newbold and G. F Elliott bat
| tied for fourteen holes without either
showing in front, but from then on the
| former got on to his true game and
| won out by 3 up and 1. Mr.. Newbold
! has the reputation of being a hard
| customer to tackle on account of stead
| mess in play, and as the handicap style
| is great leveler. he may be in at the
| finish.
w. S. Reyburn Is Defeated.
| The Chevy Chase Club stars, Lard
Thompson, Dalzell, Clapp, Lotus and
de Sibour, all won their matches, the
| only crack to be dropped by the way
side being w. S. Reyburn. who suffered
| defeat at the hands of Lotus by up
! and 2.
| Two of the matches were played yes
terday morning on account of business
engagements, and several of the pairs
were trying last night to make ar
: rangements for morning play today
Messrs Denfeld and Sutton and Dove
reux and Ham were the morning play
ers, and the first named of each pair
won.
This afternoon the second round of
match play is on the schedule. the fol-
lowing players being paired up as a
result of yesterdays matches:
C. G. Treat meets ]. H. de Sibour; J.
H. Clapp plays ,Morven Thompson: H.
| Taylor and S. P. Knut come together;
]. NJ Chamberlin and J. L. Newbold
are carded for close battle: Samuel
DalzeIl and Ryan Devereux should fur
nish good sport: E. II. LOTUS and G. G.
Perkins come close together on account
of the handicaps: r. w. Baker and G
T. Scott will be battling from start to
finish, while Allan Lard and G. w. Dem
field are picked to furnish a good
match.
Tomorrow the field narrows down to