Evening star., 1915-07-11

/ MS resignation from this position TO-
gether with that as chairman of the
golf committee.
| S. T. Price won the first event held
| by the newly organized Kirkwood Golf
Club when he came out on top of the
| first flight in the Independence Day
! tournament last Monday, with NJ. w.
Sutlifr as the runner-up. The second
fight was not completed, but probably
! will be gotten out of the way this
| week.
Roger Shale of Bannockburn is golf
| ing this week in Boston. From there
| he will go on his vacation, making sew
eral stops along the New England
coast
"skeets" Watson of Columbia did a
pretty piece of work last Wednesday
the seventeenth green on his tee shot.
| This Is 260 yards in length and is on
a hill at least twenty yards high, so
that it can easily be figured that the
drive was good for 300 yards at least.
and probably longer.
The handicaps for the woman play
ers at Chevy Chase have just been re-
vised and many changes have been
made. Miss Marion Oliver is head
ing tie list, being rated at scratch.
with Mrs. Ormsby McCammon. Mrs.
G. L. Frailey and Mrs. FL F.
At some of the clubs the woman play
ers are rated on the same basis as the
men. but this is not the case at Chevy
Chase, the committee having picked
out the best player, put her on scratch
and then rated the others by compare
son. The revised handicaps for those
receiving fourteen strokes and less are
given below:
Miss Marion Oliver. scratch: Mrs.
Ornsby McCammon. strokes; Mrs. c.
L. F'ratley, strokes: Mrs. H. F. Lip
pitt, 2 strokes: Miss Pauline Lockett. 3
Is strokes; Mrs. T. T. Gaff, strokes;
Lacey, strokes: Mrs. Fleming New
bold, Z strokes; Miss Mallory Church,
s strokes; Mrs. T. r.. Gan. strokes;
Mrs: J. M. Carlisle. strokes; Mrs. J.
Jackson. 10 strokes: Mrs: S. H.
Thompson, 10 strokes; Mrs. w. H. Rey-
nolds. 10 strokes; Nine. Ekengren, 10
strokes; Mrs. Samuel Dalzen. 10
Mrs. C.. H. Rudolph. 12 strokes; Mrs.
W. B. Ridgley. 12 strokes: Miss Frances
Lippitt. Il strokes; Mrs. c. r Stetson,
IL strokes; Mrs. Wolcott Tuckerman.
II strokes; Miss NJ. Wiley, IA strokes;
Miss s. Hacker. IA strokes.
Match play in the July tournament OF
the Columbia Country Club started
Thursday and the first round will end
Thursday, with the second round sched-
uled to start July Is, to continue to the
2lst. The semi-fnals will be played
between July % and IS, leaving the
finals to be completed by August 4. The
handicaps as posted July will govern
this event. In this connection, atten-
tion has been called to a change made
in the handicap rules. II you see
a-hole up" don't be surprised. The
new rule which will govern future
monthly events at Columbia is as fol-
lows:
Whenever there is difference in
handicaps the lower handicap player
shall start his opponent a number OF
holes up equal to one-half the diff
ference In their handicaps. Should such
number include the fraction Y. the
player receiving same may win or lose
by 'one-half hole For example: A
player receiving a handicap of az is
i21a up at the first tee and wins by
'one-half hole in case his opponent re-
covers two holes, or by one and one
gains one hole"
The Bannockburn golf committee had
, a busy day of it Monday, combining
business with pleasure. A large part OF
the day was spent in deciding knotty
tproblems and receiving complaints. The
chairman reports that the most Pc
culiar complaint he has ever heard OF
was made when it was reported that
, there WAS a foursome playing the
J course backward. The complaint was
astonishing enough, but even more as
tonishing was the fact that investiga-
. tion showed it to be founded on fact
!; Two teams who had finished theil
. match hooked up for one-hole match
. back to the clubhouse. Only a good
supper will square the players in ques-
tion with the golf committee.
The newly formed Kirkside Club has
now eighty names on its roster. AS II
has been organized only about a month
; l Ia;
charge of membership has not been
. idle.
An exceptionally interesting four
some was played at the Washington
Suburban Club last Monday. when Ed
Eynon and Donald Ball, professional at
the Washington Suburban Club. defeat
ed George James, who was paired with
Professional Fred Mcleod of Columbia
by up at nineteen holes. Donald Ball
played the best game of the four. He
} seemed to. take a liking to the first
hole (par ~, as he made it in Gall
three times around. the last occasion
being when he played it as No. 19 and
won the match for his side. He was the
only one to make it in during the
match.
Walter I. Travers. who was sched-
uled to play in the finals OF the
harvest home" tournament at Ban
nockburn last week against Richard
Reattie Tor possession OF Ine naHQSOLe
trophy. has been compelled to ask for
an extension of time because of an
accident which dana ged his left hand
so that he cannot do himself justice
The match probably will be decided
some time toward the latter part OF
this week.
william S. Reyburn. one of the best
players at Chevy Chase, also has made
application for membership at Column
bia Reyburn is one Of the best play
ers in the District: in fact, he holds
the District title, having won the event
played under the auspices of the Dis
trjct of Columbia Association over the
Chevy Chase course last month. He is
one Of the few local players rated by
the u S. G. A. this year. Last year.
it will be remembered, he did the eN-
ceptional thing of making the national
body give him a special rating after
its official list was published by turn
ing in such good scores that his case
could not be overlooked.
James T. McClenihan, chairman OF
the green committee of the Washing
ton Country Club, Ii now away on a
two-week vacation at Raleigh, N. c.
During his absence 'Ionnie" Green is
in charge of golf affairs at the club.
Bannockburn has started its regular
monthly tournament for July. The
sixty golfers who qualified for the
holiday event last Monday have been
placed in flights of sixteen each for
tbjs event The tournament Is q novel