Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-10-06
D. C. GOLF MEN WIN
Four Washington Clubs Sur
vive in M. A. G. A. Team Play.
COLUMBIA MAKES SWEEP
Captures All Nine Matches, While
Chevy Chase Takes Seven
t..
and Loses Two.

All, the local clubs won from their
out-of-town opponents in the first
round Of play in the middle Atlantic
team championships held yesterday at
the Chevy Chase Club. The Columbia
Country Club led the list Of winners
with a clean-sweep victory over the
Hermitage Golf Club Of Richmond. Va.
winning all the individual matches
and four-ball contests. Donald Wood
ward had the honor Of annexing in
dividual medal honors with his round
Of 10. He was out in 80. and came to
the home hole with for IS. But
here he went bad. for he topped his tee
topped his third. and ended with Z to
boost his score to 70.
The Chevy Chase Club won its match
from the Country Club of Virginia. 7
points to 2. The secretary of the Mid
die Atlantic Golf Association, F. T. ].
Mackay. won his match from Ormsby
McCammon, who has come back to golf
after not having touched his clubs for
three months. McCammon found trou-
Bile on the tee, and to this fact may be
attributed his al defeat McCammon,
paired with E. NJ. Weaver, the steady
veteran of the home club. was beaten
by the team Of E. D. Hotchkiss and
Mackay, up.
All the other Chevy Chase players won
their matches handily. although Samuel
Hawse. playing at No. for the Virginia
aggregation, winning his match at the
home hole. Allan Lard. who has been
having trouble with his tee shots. found
them going better and won his match by
O..
Ashmead Fuller was out in 40 and was
3 up on E. s. Organ of the Virginia
club, and was just as good coming in, but
had bad sixteenth hole to score 81. The
No. 2 man on the Baltimore Country
Club team failed to put in an appearance
and H. Lennox Bond. playing at No. /
on the Monumental city team, was forced
to shoulder his delinquent teammates
match and play the best ball Of Roy Pick
ington Golf and Country Club. Bond led
at the turn, but lost three straight holes
and the local men won by 81.
Due to the fact that John c. Davidson
and w. s. Symington, tr.. finished all
square and darkness being SO close that
there was not time to play an extra hole,
1t was decided to split the point and
the match went to the credit Of the
Washington Golf and Country Club by
So to ~.
Inc Nor1ok Country CLUB defaulted TO
the Bannockburn Golf Club, which auto
matically put the Cabin John team in
the semi-fnals.' which will be played to-
day, with Bannockburn meeting the
Columbia Country Club team and the
Chevy Chase team playing the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club combination.
The method Of scoring points is as fol-
lows: One point to each winner Of an
individual match and one point to the
team which wins the fourball match.
| AS result Of the default of the Nor
folk Country Club the Hermitage Golf
Club is in the finals of the consola-
tons. The results follow:
Columbia Country Club. 9; Hermit
age. Golf Club, 0. E. B. Eynon, IT., Co
lumbta. defeated W. W. Wallace, Her
defeated T. H. Scales Hermitage. 81
Eynon and Harlan, Columbia, defeat
| ed Wallace and Scales Hermitage,
up: Donald Woodward; Columbia, de-
feated W. W. Neale. Hermitage. IS
and Dempsey, Columbia, defeated Nea1e
and King, Hermitage, 81. N. Demp-
sey, Columbia, defeated NJ. Peck,
Hermitage. 81. R. R. Mckenzie, Co
Ksnsie. Columbia. defeated Peck and
Anderson, Hermitage. He.
| Chevy Chase CLUB. Z; Country Club of
Chase, defeated A: l. Hawse: Country
Chevy Chase, defeated G. F. wood,
Country Club of Virginia. e.. Dali
cell and Lard. Chevy Chase, defeated
Chase. defeated E. D. Hotchkiss, Coun-
try Club of Virginia, Is. F. T. j.
Mackey.. Country Club of Virginia, de-
fs sdss .Armsbg o.I Mscammon' Chevy
| Country Club Of Virginia. defeated Nc
Cannon and Weaver, Chevy Chase,
| up. Reeve Lewis, Chevy Chase, defeat
| ed H. s. Jones, Country Club of Vir-
Chase. defeated E. s: organ. Country
Club of Virginia, 5-. Lewis and
Fuller. Chevy Chase, defeated Jones
and Organ. Country Club of Virginia,
Washington Golf and Country Club
~; Baltimore Country Club, 81f-H
l.. Bond, Sd, Baltimore Country Club
defeated Roy H. Pickford, Washington
Golf and Country Club, 4-3 Simeon
7; Price. Washington Golf ana Country
Country Club, by default Pickford and
| Price. Washington Golf and Country
Club. defeated H. Lennon Bond, Sd, Bal
timors Country Glrb 20 5o,,r W. s. sy
and John G. Davidson, Washington Golf
and Country Club. ali. even L. B. Pur-
nell. Baltimore Country Club. defeated
E. s. Duvall. 5r... Washington Golf and
| Country Club, 2--1. Symington and
Purneli, Baltimore Country Club, de-
feated Davidson ana Duvall, Washing
ton Golf and Country Club. 2 UP. John
H. Clapp, Washington Golf and Country
Country Club. up. c. H. Doing. jr..
Washington Golf and Country Club. de-
feated r. H. Pritchett, Baltimore Coun-
try Club, up. C1app and Doing