Evening star., 1915-11-07
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

Believing in the adage, TN times OF
peace, prepare for war;, those behind
the indoor golf game are beginning
to make plans for the coming local
season In addition to the indoor golf
school which proved so popular last
wear under the supervision of Pro-
fessional Howard Beckett, one Of the
large downtown hotels has turned one
Of its bathrooms into an indoor
course" and George Sargent, the pop
ular Chevy Chase Club professional.
has been asked to take charge of 1t,
and now has the matter under consid-
Grafton. Several Of the clubs, too. have
the fever and it would not be at all
surprising if there were indoor courses
installed at one or two of them. The
indoor game is something new in this
section and last year was the first
that it was played locally.
The Bannockburn Club has begun the
remodeling of several greens which
have proved faulty during the first
year of service. During the past
week number two green was terraced
moved successfully and carefully re-
placed. The green committee also will
order greens Nos 3 and 8 remodeled
this month and the players will soon
have to scare up" some other good
aIibi for bad putting and poor medal
scores. Undoubtedly greens in this
section cannot have very great angle
of slope without loss of control OF the
ball, and many clubs have directed
alterations to meet these soil and vege-
tation requirements.
Sam Dalzelps victory in the F. Oden
Hortsmann event at Chevy Chase
Thursday proved to be a very popular
one. The winner of this tourney Is
generally conceded to be the club
easily playing the strongest game of
any member of the Club at this time
DalzeI1 is head and shoulders above any
Ieft-handed player in the Middle AT.
Antic Association, and in the opinion of
many he is one of the ranking port
siders" in the country. ~,
The tie for the net score prize In
the handicap event of the recent CO.
lumbia Country Club tournament still
have not yet gotten together for the
play-ofr They expect to decide the
matter this week, however and a great
battle is looked for.
Several improvements have been made
in the caddy house at the Washington
Country Club and it has been repainted.
Professional Beckett now is about as
well fixed as any of his brethren" at
| the other clubs.
The golf committee at Chevy Chase
reports that applications are pouring
in daily for the position as professional
there, which is to be vacated at the be-
ginning of next season by George Sar-
gent, who has signed up with the In
terlachen Country Club at Minneapolis.
Sargent has been playing golf almost
since birth. He was born August 2.
1882, at Brockham, Surrey, England
and moved to Epson Downs at the age
| of four. He started to play at about
| six years of age. AT liz he started an
apprenticeship at clubmaking with
Thomas NJ Watt, the well known
Scotch professional who has been with
the EPSON Golf Club for Twenty-Five
years. He was about six years learn
| ing the clubmakipg business when he
went as Assistant to Harry Vardon,
| who was then at Canton, Yorkshire,
with whom he stayed a year, leaving
him to strike out for himself as '.fuT
fedged" professional. His first posi-
ton was with Sir Edgar Vincent as
private professional at Esher, Surrey,
where he stayed about year and a
half While there he frequently played
with Premier Asquith and also COM
peted in his first open championship at
| Nuifield. Although only nineteen years
| old, he created quite. a sensation by
turning in the fifth best score in the
first round. HIS next position was
| with the Dewsbury Golf Club in York
shire for four years, leaving there to
| take up a similar position with the
Royal Ottawa Golf Club in Canada.
While there he had the honor of ini-
| tiating Earl Grey, who was then gov
ernor-general of Canada. into some of
the mysteries of the game. The earl
| has since said that Sargent was the
only person who had ever given him a
| lesson in anything without making
| him mad. He was at Ottawa for three
years, leaving there to try his luck in
tional open title his first year In this
country. Shortly afterward, he was
| offered his present position, where he
has been for the past SIX years
A search through the records of the
Columbia Country Club shows that
C. C. Van Leer's recent stunt of hoIfng
4 his tee shot at the thirteenh hole had
been duplicated only once. In 1913
| Frederick L. Davis holed his ball ON
/ flight on his first stroke. Van Leer.s
ball landed on the green and kicked
| in the hole.
Both Columbia and Chevy Chase have
(, just received the cups won by them in
the team matches for the Middle At
lantic States championship last month.
/ They are now on exhibition at the re-
spective clubs.
! President Wilson was out twice dur
4 ing the early part of the week, DIR.
! Grayson accompanying him on each
occasion. Monday, he played a round
at Columbia. while Wednesday he cov-
cred the Washington Country Club s
course.
w. W. Chalmers of the Alpine Golf
/ Club, near Boston, well known. golf
err In his home state, now Is in Wash
tpoif xii. ling and last Saturday r,laved