Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

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Invitations are now being issued for
the fifth annual spring tournament of
the Chevy Chase Club. which will be
held May 20. 81 and -. This has al
ways been the feature spring event of
the local golf aeason and indications
are that this years will prove to he
no exception to the rule. Invitations
have been sent to many of the most
golfers in the country and
several of them are sure to accept
The usual program will be followed
Many local golfers will journey to
Baltimore tomorrow to take in the an
nual event of the Baltimore Country
Club. But few have entered. however,
the majority going over to get look
at the national champion, Francis Oui-
met. who is an entrant. and who has
promised to be on hand. This is the
closest to Washington Ouimet has ever
competed, and as he is in great de-
mand throughout the country there is
parts again. and so all those who can
are planning to see him while the
seeing is good
An exceptionally interesting four
some was played over the Washing
ton Country Club course Monday after
noon, when Donald Woodward and
Alpheus Winter defeated Harris n.
Brown and John Davidson in a Mas
sau match, up. The losing pair won
down. Coming in Woodward and VIM
ter were dormie on the seventeenth
and it looked very much as If the last
nine holes would he halved. as David
son was almost dead to the hole on
his second. with Winter some distance
away. but the latter did the unex-
pected. holing a long one and halvine
the hole. Davidson has been little
off his game of late because Of a badly
strained wrist, but he did not show any
effects Monday. going out in par 35
and counting A double eagle on the
fifth (par - when he made it in two
strokes.
Bannockburn has announced its May
tournament, which will be a scratch
event. with a qualification round at
eighteen holes. The club plans to hold
a closed event of some kind monthly.
with the dual purpose of keeping the
players interested in the game and at
the same time getting line on their
abilities. so that their handicaps NAV
be better regulated.
Chairman Lawrence Green and the
other members of the tournament COM
mittee of the Washington Country Club
deserve all kinds of credit for the
successful manner in which the clubs
annual spring event, which closed yes
terday. was run. There was not a
hitch of any kind and all of the hun
dred or so entrants declared 1t the
best the club has ever held The green
committee. too. should come in for a
fair share of praise. as the course prob
ably has never been in better shane for
tournament than it is right now
The course has been changed a great
deal since last year and all agree that
these changes have been for the best
Conditions are such now that the club
VIII get a. better showing for the work
1t does on the course from now on, as
the fundamental work has now been
done and pra ctically all additional
work or expenditures will be in the
nature of extras"
Allan Lard Of Chevy Chase. who tied
Sam Dalzell and Lee Harlan for low
qualifying score in the Washington
Country Clubs event. should have won
by several strokes but for misses of
two short puts. On the sixteenth his
attempt for an eighteenth putt rim
med the cup for .. His third was
not more than fifteen inches away. and
again he trimmed the cup. running down
his fourth. On the home hole he was
less than two feet away from the pin
on his third, but again he fell down
on his putt. Either one of these short
shots would have given him the prize.
7. Goldheim of the Washington Sub
urban Club. who was injured last week
by being struck in the eye with a
ball. is doing Ricely and is now home
glad to learn that he will not lose the
sight Of the eye as was feared His
was one of the most serious accidents
which has ever befallen local player.
He was playing his ball from a bad
lie. when 1t struck n root of tree
which was Just in front of it and the
ball bounded to his left eve. The eye
ball and lid were badly cut.
Thomas ]. w Brown. who is super
visinG the work on the new course at
Bannockburn. reports that plans are
now being made for the putting course
and that it probably will he laid out
before this season ends. Since these
courses have been installed by the va
rious clubs, members wonder how they
ever got along without them before.
For man off his short game they are
IDEAL as he gets the necessary putting
practice and at the same time is play
ing match.
All of the local professionals are go
ing exceptionally well this year. and
from present indications Washington
will more than hold it's own in the
intervals throughout the summer. At
Chevy Chase. Sargent is going like "a
house af1re," while Mcleod is very
much ION the job" at Columbia Both
of these players turned in cards of 50
last week. At that. Mcleod missed
five puts of less than four feet on
the last five holes. Had he gotten one
of these puts. he would have equaled
the course record, while two of them
would have set a mark which proba bly,
would have stood for years.
The two Dempsey boys, who repre-
scented Bannockburn in Yesterdays ".
e. c. tourney, did all that was eN-
pected of them, the older one making
an so, which placed him in the first
flight. 4. n. Dempsey. who is but
fifteen years old. had some exceptional
~ hard luck at the fifth or he. too.
would have been right near the top.
His drive struck his caddy on the head.
the ball rolling to a deep ditch. II
took him ten strokes to make the hole
and this is what caused him to he so
far down. Notwithstand;ns this. hs
made an $40 out and IS in. These