Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-06
UNIQUE GOLF EVENT
Election Cup Contest to Be
Held at Chevy Chase Club.
WOMEN WILL PLAY TODAY

The golfers of the Chevy Chase Club
| prize. the outcome of an unusual prop
! osition made at the club one evening
| last week on the possibilities of cleo
| ton of the rival presidential candi-
dates. Wilson and Hughes. The club
| Will receive a cup no matter who Is
returned winner at the polls tomorrow,
| and the competition will be started
with the first match play round No
| vember 10. The qualification rounds
start today and close next Sunday.
| Thirty-two players will qualify for the
succeeding match play rounds
The occasion of the offers for the
| presentation of a cup was an informal
meeting of a number of golfers around
the We'll known nineteenth hole" The
conversation turned on the coming
presidential election. Naturally both
OF the candidates had many admirers.
| AS reasons were outlined why their
candidate should win, the conversation
became heated and one ardent Hughes
follower said that in the event that
Wilson is reelected he (the mem
ber) would present to the Chevy Chase
Club. to be played for. a cup valued
at 500, whereupon it was pointed out
that II Hughes won the club would be
without cup for which to play.
Immediately another of those present
land. it is said. a personal friend of
President Wflson-stated that his con-
hdence in the reelection of the Presi-
dent was so great that he would give a
| cup to be played for under the same
conditions if Hughes were the success
full candidate.
| The competition is, as far as can be
ascertained. the only event given by
any club for an election cup.
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another busy golf week. Beginning
with the match between the women of
the club today and continuing with the
Presidents cup for the rest of the week.
the golfers of the club will have had
three successive weeks of competition
| Today the women of the club will OPP
pose team of eight players picked
from the best Of the feminine contin-
gent from the other clubs around the
Cauital city. The makeup of the Chevy
Chase team proba bly, will be as follows:
Mrs. c. l.. Frailey, captain: Mrs. Orms-
by McCammon, Mrs. L. Q. Cameron, Mrs.
Dorothea Owen, Mrs. Jackson and Mrs.
McEay.
Miss Williams, the captain of the Co
lumbia team, will be unable to play on
account of pulled ligament in her
left hand. Miss Pauline Lockett, run
ner-up in the handicap tournament at
Chevy Chase, also has received an in
jury which probably will keep her on
the links for several days Mrs. A.
Winter and Mrs. Myer Cohen of CO.
lumbia. Mrs. J. r. de Farges. Miss Pat
terson, Miss Georgia Herring and Miss
Alice .Burbage of Bannockburn and
Mrs. w f. Ballard and Miss LOCKER Of
the Washington Golf and Country Club
will compose the other team.
Jack Burgess of Chevy Chase. Fred
Mcleod, A. r. Mckenzie and Robert p.
Burks of Columbia will play at the
Baltimore Country Club today with the
resident professional, "Nipper" Camp
bell.
A player at the Westward Ho Club
of Chicago claims to have a very
saga cious dog, which, in addition to it's
duties as guardian of the household
treasures, accompanies it's owner to the
links and retrieves lost golf balls. chi
cago is not so far ahead of Washing
ton in the matter of golf ball retrievers,
for one of the employees at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club possesses
a dog that will chase and bring back
a ball which is badly off the course, in
response to the call of its master