Evening star., 1915-06-06

residences At a meeting held May 2S
| Messrs. Charles Golden Miller, NJ. H
! Sutlin and Thomas A. Poole were ap.
pointed a committee on arrangements
| which IS part of its work is receiving
! applications of any who may care tt
cast their lot with the new movement
! AS soon the club has been Gottel
on a good. settled working basis z
meeting will be held. officers elected
and a general organization progra n
adopted
There was great deal of surprise ex.
! pressed by golfers in general at the
small number of entries received for
the District of Columbia championship
I event which was played over the
Chevy Chase course Thursday. Friday
and Yesterday. Last year with the
| eligibility limit at - strokes, nearly
100 competed and it was generally
/, thought that with l stroke limit at
T! least 100 would send in their names
and proba bly, more. more than lSO
were eligible. but only thirty-three
names We're received and one of them
withdrew in order to prevent bye
! rounds from being necessary, which
would have called for another days
play.
President Wilson and a party OF
friends spent Tuesday of last week on
The new Bannockburn course near
Cabin John Bridge. and seemed to enjoy
themselves very much Much i'm
proFement has been made in the play
ing condition of the Cabin John Bridge
course since the President was there
in the early spring and ne was quick
to notice il and to make favora BILE
comment
Records will likely be made at the
new Bannochbu:n course every week
for while. until something excep-
tionaly good has been done. as the
course is new and Mondays play was
the first of Importance since ii has
30 each way, making a total of 20 for
the eighteen. The best round made to
date was credited to c. Fl. Baker. who
negotiated the first nine holes in ~
will stand for some time. as the fair
way is not yet in good shape. and un-
less a player is exceptionally lucky
he is bound to have few bad lies.
Bakers card follows:
So 50 2 ~
Ed Eynon won the prize donated by
J. T. Hendricls for the best composite
score made in the two rounds at CO.
lumbia Decoration day. Eynon's ~
won by several strokes.
The local clubs have been invited to
send entries to the annual tourna- =
, a
Sewickley. Pa. which will be played
June 2, 10. II and 12, and one or two
players are contemplating taking in
the event.
In Donald Woodward the Columbia
Country Club has player who will
bear watching. and who is going to-
ward the top in leaps and bounds. He
! has done such consistent work in re-
cent tournaments that his handicap
q Sfr
| the rate he is going it probably will
be cut still more. In Thursdays play
in the District championship tourney
he furnished the surprise of the event
by giving George James one of the
worst beatings he has ever received
winning up and g. AS James is one
of the few local players whose me
appears on the national handicap list
Woodward's win is quite a flea ther in
his cap
| Attention has just been called to the
fact that Allan Lard of Chevy Chase
and Arthur S. MattinglE of Columbia
who tied for the qualification round
Bannockburn Golf Club. have never
played off for the prize. II they ever
do expect TO play off this tie COM
plication will arise because of the fact
that the Bannockburn club has chang
ed its course. and it has alway. been
customary, although not absolutely
necessary, for ties to be played off
over the course on which the event
was originally held.
The local professionals are now get
ting, in shape for the open events
| several OF which viii be DECIDED this
first will be held at Shawnee, Pa
June and 10. The next week will
bring out the national open champion
ships to be played June Is. 1S. Ii and
| 1s at the Baltusroi Golf Cluo, at Bal
| tusrol. n. J. There will then be a lapse
until the first week in July. at which
time the Massa chusetts championship
will be played. July s and the
cided over the Fox Hills Country Club
while fey days later the scene will
! shift to Shawnee. where the Pennsyl-
vania championships are scheduled. be-
ginning July "a. Both Sargent and
events. and. as stated above, they are
now working hard to get in their besi
form. Saturday Mcleod beat Sargent
over the Chevy Chase course by i ur
and 8. but the latter more than eyened
| things up Monday when he beat NJ
| Leod in return match, equaling the
course record Of 81 at Columbia He
had little hard luck at two holes OF
the nth he topped his drive. which
proved costly. while at the tenth he
missed a putt for a 3. This equals
McLeod's mark made year or SO ago
| and shows that the Chevy Chase PRO
| is. just about at the top of his game
| The card was:
u'........-.. $500. :: IA
/ Following the ideas of Mahomet
who, when he found the mountainf
| would not come to him went to them
several of the Bannock burn players
! are planning to camp at the Cabin
, John bridge course this summer. SO as
| TO be near it and thus be able to get
| in some rounds before breakfast, Ar
rangements are now being made tc
set up tents and to get sufficient
number Of persons interested to or
ganize a regular camp.
| But one match in the board OF gov
eruors tournament of the Chevy Chase
| Club has been played during the week
Gen, e. n. Weaver, going into the
! semi finals by beating c. r. Wilson in
/ the second round, up.
| One of the best matches of the yea.
| was played over the Columbia course
| last Saturday when DR.. Walter Harlan
and W. II. Follett beat George James
and Alpheus winter in nassau four
| some. , up-l UP each way. Follett
; who in the English player who was
runner to Walter Tuckerman In the
! 1913 Columbia event. was going espe-