Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-10-10
Interesting Golf Notes
From the Local Clubs

The Columbia Country Club will be
the mecca Of practically all golfers in
the Middle Atlantic Golf Association
this week. as the annual team cham
pfonship tournament is scheduled to be
decided over its course Thursday and
Friday. The winner of the event will
be the champion team Of the associa-
ton for the year, and will be awarded
the championship cup. Other prizes
will be given the -runner-up for the
championship. winner of first consola-
tions and winner of second consola-
lions. Each club in the association is
eligible to send a team of five players
to compete in the event.
All of the local clubs which belong
to the Middle Atlantic Associa ton have
entered teams. and it would not be at
al surprising ii Washington did not
take the lions share of the prizes.
Columbia Is the only club which has
will represent 1t in this event. Eddie"
Eynon. who is one of the mainstays of
the club. now Is in the hospital re-
covering from an operation. and so his
the other members Of the team being
George P. James (captain), John, c.
Davidson, L. L. Harlan and Donald
Woodward.
Chevy Chase has named Moryen
Thompson. Walter Tuckerman and Sam
Dalzell as sure starters, but is having
trouble getting hold of some of its
other good men and is not sure who
the other two will be. George E.
Truett has been named as captain Of
the Washington Country Club team, but
he has made no definite decision as to
its exact personnel. although the five
are sure to be taken from the follow
II. Clapp. George E. .Truett, Earl
Wheeler. e. s. Duvall, A. Mosby, James
T. McClenihan. 'Larney" Greene and
Charles Dooing. Capt. George T. Cum
just returned to the city from Canada.
He, Richard Beattie and ]. Martin
Scranage will fill three of the places
and the remaining two probably will
Thomas J. w. Brown, Bruce L. Tay-
lor. Norman Dempsey and one or two
others are putting up exceptionally
strong games these days and the two
vacancies will likely be filled from
among these players.
Mrs. Bruce l.. Taylor won the finals
in the women's golf event at the Ban
nockburn Golf Club last Monday after
noon in an interesting match with Miss
Alice Miller. The match was at nine
holes and was very close. Mrs. Taylor
winning by 2 up and i to go after halv-
ing. UP. at the fifth tee, but fell
down badly on her drives on the fifth,
sixth and seventh holes, which enabled
Mrs. Taylor to win out.
The golf committee at the Chevy
Chase Club, headed by Capt. George W.
Denfeld, staked out the 5twenty-seven
holes for the proposed new course at
that club Friday morning and the mat
ter will soon be submitted to the board
Of governors for action. The proposed
changes will provide an eiEhteen-hole
course for the better players Of, the
I>IA A~rA
handicapped over a certain mark. There
seems to be quite difference of
opinion at the club as to the advisa-
bility of making this change and the
the opinions Of all Of the players SO as
to find out what the majority wants
Blue prints showing the proposed
changes are now being made and will
probably win be taken up in the very
near future and finally and definitely
disposed OF.
Columbia Country Club which ended
Yesterday is the last Of the popular
monthly events that the club will hold
until next June.
A number of the ridemen at Bannock-1
burn are talking Of organizing shoot
ing club. There are several good shots
among the players and there are many
very
burn tract where a target range could
be Installed without in any wise in
terfering with the golfng program A
move in this direction would be quite
a novelty and would prove a substan-
tial attraction and recreation feature.
Allan Lard, one Of the prominent
players Of the Chevy Chase Club, re-
turned Thursday morning from a
vacation In the New Eng
land states. He played a great deal
of golf while away and is right now
at the top Of hfs game. but he. unfor-
tunately, Will not be available as a
member of the Chevy Chase team in
the club matches for the Middle Attain
tic Association title. as he expects to
be out of town during the week on a
short business trip.
Milo II. Sutliff, greens manager at
the newly formed Kirkside Golf, Club,
has appointed a committee to arrange
the handicaps Of Its members. with
this end in view all Of the players have
been requested to turn in cards for all
rounds played SO that tho committee
can get q good line on their present
form. 8. r. Price. winner Of the recent
tournament. generally 10 considered as
being the best player In the club and
undoubtedly will DO given the lowest
handicap.