Evening star., 1916-09-17
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS

Jack Burgess of the Chevy Chase
Club surely is entitled to the appella-
ton of the 'unluckiest" man. Early
in the season he was sick in bed with
stomach trouble. three weeks ago he
hurt his hand so that he could not
grip a club. and when this trouble
was conquered he scalded his hands
At Wilmington last Wednesday. where
he went to qualify in the pro golfers
tournament, he accidentally put his
hand in a basin of scalding water and
burned it so that 1t is painful to grip
the club. :
The Chevy Chase golfing contingent
is gradually finding Its way back to
Washington. Many of the best players
were away from this city during the
heated season, but now. that the cool
days of autumn are at hand. they are
returning In ever increasing numbers.
Samuel Dalzell. the Chevy Chase cham
pion, and ]. H. de Sibour. who holds
the present low score of 7s over the
rearranged course, are now back in the
city. Play for the oden Horstmann
trophy at the Chevy Chase Club, en-
blematic of the club championship, is
scheduled for October 3 and 4, the
matches at the same course. The Oden
Horstmann trophy is competed for at
72 holes medal play. 1t is likely that
Miss Alexa Stirling, the women's south
ern champion and one Of the most
promising of the younger feminine
players in the country, will stop here
on her way back from the national
championship at the Belmont Springs
Country Club Of Massachusetts,. She
has been here every summer for the
ma q
Lockett of Chevy Chase.
The dates Of the Columbia Country
Clubs fall invitation tournament are
October 10 to q. inclusive. w. S. Har-
ban, a member of the executive COM
citation. who attended the recent anna
teur championship. has secured the par
tial promise of several of the coun-
try's best players to participate in the
who will endeavor to attend this years
tourney are: Oswald Kirkby, metropoli-
tan champion; Max Marston of Baltus-
rol, Hamilton Kerr of Greenwich and
Norman Maxwell of Aronimink 1t is
possible that the boy wonder from At
friend Perry Adair Of the same city, will
play at Columbia. Chick Evans has said
that he might come. but 1t is a long dis
tance from Chicago to Washington, and
national titles will find it difficult to
break away just at that time.
Now that the sun Is not so hot at noon
as 1t was earlier in the season. the green's
at Columbia are being watered In the
daytime. Green keepers frown on this
practice, as rule. as they claim 1t has
a tendency to shrivel up the grass when
the hot sun begins to beat on the ten
der grass just moistened. but in cool
w he
not so direct, 1t does no harm to the
grass.
Charles NJ. Daniels. who some years
ago made 1t his perennial habit to swim
away with most of the aquatic titles in
the world, has become o. devotee of golf,
and true to his strenuous heritage, has
done wonders not only as a player,
but as an endurance champion. He
owns large estate in the Adirondacks
good nine-hole course laid out on 1t.
He rose one morning at 3:15 o'clock
and at 1855 started on his rounds. At
1855 that evening he had played 228
was a trifle over 38 strokes. In the
course of his rambles on that day he
covered forty-seven miles, quite feat
for any man without the exercise of
hitting a ball some 900 times. This is
believed to be the American endurance
record William Mackie and Richard
Bea tile covered over siXty-five holes in
one day last year over the Bannockburn
course.
Although Jack Burgess hand has been
paining him. 1T has not prevented him
from getting around the Chevy Chase
course in II twice in the past week.
A team of golfers from the Lakeside
Country Club of Richmond will meet
a team of home club players at the
Washington Suburban Club this after
noon in a return match. In the match
played at Richmond Labor day, when
the Washington men journeyed to the
Virginia city, the players broke even,
each team winning four matches. This
time the professional at the Lakeside
Club will accompany the players and
will engage Jimmie Spencer today
Spencer has been going very well of
late, having had IA on one day and
another round of 36 another. He nearly
got two on the seventh hole on one of
his rounds. The green had just been
flag and ran a foot past. Ordinarily the
ball would have been over the green,
but the water put on 1t had made 1t
slow enough to be able to pitch to.
A tombstone tournament will be one
of the events scheduled within the COM
ing week at the Kirkside Golf Club. The
handicap committee of the club has
been busy the past week tabulating the
scores turned In during the past six
months by Its many beginners, quite .
number Of whom are showing remarkA-