The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-08-22
GOLF.

The golf team of the Washington
Suburban Club will journey to Balti.
more this morning to meet the golf.
ers of the Baltimore Suburban Clut
in a return match, eighteen holes Mas
sau. three points to the match.
Baltimore won. to s, in the match
played here last Sunday, but the To-
cal team was seriously weakened be-
cause of the absence of several OF
! its best golfers on their vacation, and
the showing made today should De
| just the reverse of that of last week
| Since the Kirkside Golf Club took
! over the old Bannockburn Golf Club
course at Chevy Chase. the rivalry be-
| tween members of the clubs is quite
keen. Last Sunday Harris and Burton.
of Bannockburn, and Sutliff and Price.
of Kirkside. played an exciting four
some at kirkside; the latter won by
2 up. 1t is expected that the next
match will be played at Bannockburn.
The course at Kirkside is in excel
lent condition and the greens have
been vastly improved by the recent
rains, which fortunately did no dam
age.
Charles c. Miller, DR.. T A. Poole,
and Dr. NJ. II. Sutliff, the executive
committee of the Kirkside Golf Club.
have returned very much improved
from their recent vacations and are
very much gratiied to note the ex-
cellent condition of affairs as conduct
ed by the subcommittee composed OF
Messrs. Newman G. Little, Bliss N.
Davis and Hubert L. Bisselle.
Quite a number of the members of
Kirkside are learning the rudiments
of golf thoroughly from the profess
sional who is giving lessons every
Monday at the club, and will soon
realize the pleasure and physical ben
eft to be derived from the game.
In a thirty-six-hole final for tho
championship of the American Golf
Association of Advertising Interests,
Augustus K. Oliver of Pittsburgh. de-
feated D. NJ. Parker, of New York, =
and 3, at Hot Springs, Va. There was
a stiff wind, but Mr.. Oliver did the
first eighteen in sc strokes and was
only a stroke worse the second time
around. 1t was superior putting that
won for him, for his opponent drove
and approached well.
Playing over the Washington
Country Club course the other day
Reginald B. LOCKER drove badly
hooked ball from the third tee, caus-
ing il to strike a large tree about
twenty-five feet from the tee. The ball
DOunutu fifteen lftl 10 the Iell,
striking one of a group of trees, and
then reboundins again. struck the first
tree. When the ball finlly landed it
was in n good lie for a brassie and
he sent the ball well down the course
some one hundred and eighty yards.
winning the hole from his opponent
who had driven his tee shot plump into
a water hazard.
In most gruelling and exciting
contest Hugh /. Willoughby. of the
Philadelphia Country Club. defeated
Louis NJ Washburn. of the Merton
Cricket Club, in the final round of the
individual golf championship of Phil
adelphia. at the Whitemarsh Valley
Country Club, l up on the thirty sixth
hole
This was Willoughby's second con-
secutive appearance in the ffnl round |
Of the championship. and it is rather
that he has only competed |
in the championship twice.
Last year he was beaten by w. NJ. !
Francine, Of the Huntington Valley |
Club.
Jerome n. Travers, who astonished |
the Golfing world recently by winning
an ideal golfinG temperament, if you
sticking close to business
while playing fine temperament. Very
few things ruffle Jerry. He plays like
one unconscious of the fact that he
Is watched by a large gallery. re
Is able to concentrate on every shot
ne makes from the tee to the cup.
There is no time in the journey that
ne considers unimportant, realizing
how easy ii is to go wrong by allow
ng your attention to be drawn away
rom the game.
Sometimes Travers plays hurriedly
md sometimes he takes time to study
he lay and the character OF the
ground when he is about to play. If
lie plays the shot hurriedly ii Is be-
ause he has studied these things out
while he is walking up to the ball.
His brain is always busy.
Strange to say. English golfers hold
he game more lightly than we do
m this side Of the Atlantic. The Brit
sh players who have played in our
tournaments are surprised at our at
itude toward golf In England men
re more apt to play the game as IL
were play instead of business. In
.merica. especially in the tournaments,
men play the game as IL their life
expended on 1t. ,
1t may be that we Americans get ,
o fun out of our golf. but undoubt-
dly If we continue to take the game ,
S seriously as Mr. Travers has taken :
we will in a short time become the
reatest golfing nation. IL
England has often made fun of US
ecause we play too slowly. When, =,
Iilton was over here he was very :
luch aggravated by the putting of !
ONE of his opponents who insisted
n taking a great deal of time on
he green. II we have slow players IL .
alls to the lot of the British Isles
D have the champion slow player of
he world This man is Mayo, the pro- :
sssional. who takes twice as much (,
me as any one else to make a round
Tilfred Reid recently told us that he
nee played a game with Mayo which
equired four hours. and a half to
,mplete. This is somewhat slower =
ian even the slowest of US play the !.
anne over here.
Clarke Wins Chicago Shoot. =