Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-25
interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

From a reliable though unofficial
source comes information to the effect
that the much-talked- municipal golf
links are provided for in plans for
work for the present year and that
course will be laid out in Potomac
Park and work started in the very near
future. There is no other outdoor
game that places so few sex or age re-
strictions upon the player and offers
such dividends in general physical well
being as golf 1t is estimated that there
are at least 100000 golfers in the
United States today. and when it is re-
membered that this represents an In
crease of 500 per cent over the number
who played ten years ago it may be
seen with what strides golf has been
winning its way to the fore. AS these
public links multiply throughout the
will increase at a far greater rate. and
nothing could be more opportune for
the public health Since walking for
its own sake has become to the average
person an all but obsolete pastime. this
means of getting the people out to do
something for their muscles and lungs
is far more effective than any number
Of health bulletins, pamphlets. etc
Many a man who could not be induced
to walk for the sake of exercise will
eagerly avail himself of the privilege of
pursuing a golf ball, and it is believed
that the money put in the municipal
course will be an excellent investment.
John T. Harris. chairman Of the green
committee of the Bannockburn Golf
Club. left the early part of the week
for Newport. r. l., and New York city.
He is on an official trip for the Navy
ten days. In his absence DIR. Bruce L..
Taylor Is acting as chairman of the
green committee.
at Columbia last Saturday, when e. B.
Eynon and Harris N. Brown met Will
liam 8. Reyburn and ]. H. De Sibour of
Chevy Chase, the home pair winning by
up and l to play. Eyuon's game was
by far the best of the four and he did
some exceptionally good work on sew
eral holes. probably his best stunt be-
ing on the seventeenth, when he
reached the green on his tee shot This
is $50 yards on a line. but the green
itself is on a hill at least twenty yards
high SO that the drive was exceptional.
The trick has been turned several times,
but any time 1t is done the player de-
serves a great deal of credit. The Chevy
Chase pair made another visit to Co
lumbia Tuesday and was more for
tunate. beating Brown and Donald
Woodward. 2 up and /. Reyburn, by
the way. who is one of the best players
cal ones to receive handicap by the
United States Golf Association, is post
ed for membership at Columbia and
will soon become a member there.
President Wilson was on the WASH
ington Country Club course last Tues
day when the storm came up and play
ed several holes during the worst of it
before giving up. He very rarely misses
a day, and when he does not go to one
club he is at another. Thursday he
and DIR. Grayson played a round at Co
lumbia, the doctor, as usual, coming out
second best When the President first
came to Washington his game was
very poor, but he has played so steadily
that he has improved fully 100 per cent
and now is much better than the aver
age player.
S. T. Price and. DIR. Milo II. Sutliff,
probably the best two players of the
recently organized Kirkside Golf Club,
played an interesting match Tuesday
afternoon, the former winning by up.
Price, who is former member of the
Glen Echo Country Club of ST. Louis,
now is leading in the July tournament,
as he has a composite score of "a for
the nine holes. According to the rules
governing the event, player can play
as many rounds as he desires during
the month, the prize going to the one
whose composite score is the lowest.
This will likely be beaten before the
is up as it is but two strokes
better than par, which is as follows: