Evening star., 1915-06-13
new marks. AS soon as tho scheme has
been put in effect a date will be an
nounced.

The team match between eight CO.
lumbia players and the same number
representing the Country Club of Vir-
ginia, which was scheduled for yester-
day at Richmond, was called off, as sew
eral of the local players found It i'm
possible to make the trip for business
reasons. 1t will be played little later
in the summer. These matches between
the local and out-of-town clubs were
very popular several years ago and
were. as matter of fact. responsible
for the home and home" matches held
annually by the Middle Atlantic Golf
Association. In the good old days." 1t
was the custom for one club to gather
up as many of it's players as possible
and journey to another club which
would have the same number of players
on hand. pair them up and fight out
some great battles on the links These
popular that the Middle Atlantic Asso-
citation decided to arrange for them on
larger scale SO that all clubs un-
der 1T would meet. get acquainted and
as result benefit the game. Under the
plan adopted last year the home and
tournament form at one club, and SO
the members of the various local or
ganiZations are reviving the ancient
custom and are planning to make sew
eral visits to different clubs through
out the season.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday OF
this week the last golf tournament of
the season of local interest will be
held. 1t is the annual championship
event of the Middle Atlantic Golf AS
sociation and will be played over the
course of the Wilmington Country
Club at Wilmington. The usual pro-
gram will be followed and in addition
there is a team prize for the lowest ag-
gregate scores made in the qualifca-
nf Ave oI,
Columbia won this last year with
George James, Lee Harlan, Edward b.
Eynon, John c. Davidson and Alpheus
Winter, and expects to make bid for
1t again in this weeks event and will
sent about eight players. Chevy Chase,
Rannockburn and Washington Country
Club also expect to be represented. so
there will be quite a local contingent
to look after District honors. An
nouncement has been made that entries
will be received by Secretary F. ]. D.
Mackay at the Country Club OF Vir-
ginia up until 1 o'clock June IS and
between that time and the beginning of
the tournament they should be sent to
Club.
James T. McClenihan, chairman of
the green committee of the Washing
ton Country Club, returned Yesterday
from Baltimore. During his absence
"Lonnie" Green looked after the af-
fairs of the committee
Gil Nichols work in the Shawnee
open golf event last week shows that
he has completely recovered from the
accident which laid him up last year
and for while threatened to put him
out or the game permanently. Mich
Oils. who is the professional of the
Wilmington Country Club, is we'll
har
Ben, made many visits to Washington
to meet Sargent and Mcleod in four
some matches. These latter two, by
the way. did not show up very well
IN the Shawnee event, but they have
entered the national open tourney
which will be played at Baltusrol.
N. j.. Tuesday, Wednesday. Thursday
and Friday. and their work there will
be watched with interest. Last year,
1t VIII be remembered. they tied for
third place, and. as each has won the
event once, Sargent in 1909 and Nc
Leod the year before that, it is be-
lieved that they have chance of re-
peatlng this year. as they are both go
ing at their best and are always dan
gerous, notwithstanding their rather
mediocre work in last weeks event.
Ben Hunt of Bannockburn holds the
record to date for the best eighteen
HoleS over tHe ne" CaDln JOnn BrluBe
course. Last Monday he turned in a
card of So. having gone out in II and
returned in AZ. This is really excep-
tionally good when all conditions are
taken in consideration. The course,
being a new one, is still in rather poor
shape on the fairways, with the re-
suit that many bad lies are encoun
tered. Par is 35 each way, but many
who have played over the course be-
lieve it should be stroke or two|
q
Bakers mark for the record round at
nine holes, which was made Decoration
day.
The qualification round for the June
event of the Columbia Country Club
hoe haap copon1efed and Arn~fn~a