Evening star., 1915-12-19
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

Ill TIUJil lltC IOGdl OiuUS III
At an important meeting of the Ban
nockburn Golf Club, held Thursday
evening, President John L. Warren.
who has held that Office for three years
and who was just beginning his fourth
term, rendered his resignation. and 1t
was accepted. During his three terms
Mr.. Warren proved himself to be an
exceptionally efficient officer. He al
ways had the welfare Of the club at
heart and was one of it's hardest work
ers. His resignation was received VIII VIII
genuine regret and was accepted only
because Mr.. Warren insisted that ne
wanted to retire. Daniel L. Hazard
was chosen as Mr.. Warren's successor
His selection followed the natural
course Of events, as he probably has
done as much for the club as any other
one member and has made very en-
viable record for himself as secretary.
John T. Harris, the present chairman
of the tournament comm1ttee, was
as President Warren's successor as
member of the board of governors.
President Warren's resignation seemed
to be signal for other changes, as u
was closely followed by that of Thomas
j. w. Brown, as chairman of the green
committee. Brown has for years been
the course expert" at Bannockburn
and has worked early and late, the
exceptional condition OF the new course
being due almost entirely to his ef-
forts He will remain as member
of the committee, J. Martin Scranage,
who was recently chosen memDer OF
the board of governors, navlng Deen
selected as chairman. j. r. De Farges
was chosen chairman of the house
committee for the ensuing year The
eIeyat tion OF Harris to the secretary
ship leaves a vacancy as chairman OF
the tournament committee, Whlch Will
be filled in week or So
The week lust closed has been an ex-
|ceptional one in that not more than ten
or twelve golfers have played on all OF
the local clubs combined condition that
probably will not again arise throughout
the whole winter. All Of the local courses
are still covered with snow. and only the
real "dyed-ir-the-wooP players nave at
tempted to play. At Columbia, Bannock,
burn. Kirkside, Washington Golf and
Country and washington Suburban Clubs
not a single player was out for the hrst
four days, while at Chevy Chase on these
days only one or two braved the condl.
tons. Chevy Chase is the only one OF
green's as yet, but most of the others will
likely follow suit before long.
James P. McClenihan. chairman Of the
and Country Club, reports that practically
all Of the improvements planned Tor TINS
wear are now completed Nearly all OF
the greens have been improved by the
addition of small drains, nearly a dozen
new bridges have been put in around the
course, and work on shelter for the
caddies has been started. and probably
will be completed this week
Among the improvements planned by
the green cornI1littee of the Kirkside Golf
Club is the installation of a practice
green. and work on one soon Will ne
started. This extra green Will be pulil
parallel to the present No. 8, just west
Of the clubhouse An extra green for
practice is now generally recognized as
necessity. and provisions for practice
green, as well as a practice tee, Will pc
found in the plans Of all of the new
courses being laid out
Many OF the golfers of the Chevy Chase
Club are turning their attention to bowl
ing, and the clubs alleys are In use prac-
tically all of the time. Last year the
club had a very good bowling team, and
played some exceptionally interesting
matches The club is anxious to form an
other team, for this year. and the bowling
committee (Messrs. Fleming Newbold,
Ormsby McCammon and George c. Min
r;eeIode) would like to hear from all in
terested in the game or wishing to try
for the team All members are requested
to hand in at least six scores between
now and January 3. and the eight men
games will be eligible for the team. Last
year probably the most interesting match
PLAYED was between Chevy Chase and the
Washington Golf and Country Club repre-
sentatives. and, oddly enough, the
majority of both teams were golfers. The
following golfers stand good chance OF
making the team this year: Sam Dalzell,
George c. Mnnigerode. Ornasby Mccain
mon, Cen. II. P. Mccain, Morven Thomp-
son. John W. Calvert and J. Henri De
Sibour
one of the committees of the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association which is
sure to be done away with at the as
sociation annual meeting next March
Is the committee on advancement,
whose duties are to do all in its power
toward advancing golf and golf inter
ests in the association. couple of
years ago this committee was consid-
cred a very important one, and It real
ly accomplished a great deal, out IN
terest seems to have fallen OFT within
the past year or so to such an extent
that this will be it's last year. The
Committee at the present time consists
of Harry B. Di1lehunt, Baltimore Coun-
burn Golf Club: Morven Thompson,
Chevy Chase; Alpheus Winter, Column
bia Country Club: Josias Pennington.
EIkridge Hunt Club; D. II. Duker. Her
mftage Golf and Hunt Cup: y. W. NC
Mullen. Maryland Country Club: P. M.
Prescott, ir.. Norfolk Country Club; Jo-
seph C. Taylor. Country Club of vir-
ginia: A. Colt Yates. Washington Golf
and Suburban Club, and ]. Ralph Bal
ley, Wilmington Country Club.
Reeve Lewis won last Saturdays
event at the Chevy Chase Club y an
eighteen-hole handicap at medal play
when he turned in a gross 81. with 9
off. for rs net. Gen. e. M. Weaver.
with 90-9-S1, took second prize. Next
Saturday there will be another eight
een-hole medal play event held. 1t is
the Intention of the golf committee to
every week as long as the players con-
tinue to take an interest in them.
On several occasions debaters imbued
with the spirit of argument and re-
search have taken up the question as
to how much farther a golf ball can
be driven beyond a base ball wallop.
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