Evening star., 1916-12-03

| tiOD may Dntaln the SeTN it'S VI -
| liam Comedian. the course architect OF
Canoe Brook. \. j., as permanent
! Greenkeeper at the course. tonneIlah
! was at Columbia last week and while
! there was approa ched by member OF
! the Chevy Chase green committee ana
| submitted a proposition which VIII be
/ taken up at the next meeting of the
| board of governors of the Chevy Chase
| Club.
| Samuel Dalzell and Allan Lard of the
! Chevy Chase Club had as their guests
/ at Chevy Chase last Tuesday John c.
/ Davidson and Lee l.. Harlan of Column
| bia. The Chevy Chase team was l up
on the visitors going to the home hole.
/ but Davidson. after being short of the
! bunker in Two shots. laid his mashie
down the putt to win the hole and
| square the match. The Chevy Chase
/ course is in excellent condition gener-
I ally. the fair greens. although not as
! fast as in the heat of summer, being
| well covered with grass and the putt
! ing greens in particular being fast and
| true.
The Jock Hutchinson mashie. the club
with the deeply scored face. which has
done such remarka bic work in the mat
ter of stopping the ball in the hands of
all sorts of players. was not invented by
Hutchison. but by Macdonald Smith. the
brother of the famous Alec Smith of the
Wyhagyl Club. Mac Smith had made ex-
periments with club with deeply scor-
ed face which had been very successful
and when on a visit to Jock Hutchison
at Pittsburgh determined 10 try il out and
! find out the latters opinion on the club
Hutchison thought so we'll of it that he
Immediately had duplicate made. When
Ga Nichols, or a trip to the west. played
over Hutchisons course, Jock o the
Hutch. as he is famliarly called. thought
he would show the club to Nichols. so
| he bet the latter that he could make "A
ball stop quicker with the scored mashie
than Nichols could with his ordinary
weapon. There wasn't any doubt about
the matter for on the first ball pitched
! by Hutchison the pellet jumped back
while Nichols ball. although it did not
run far. looked like a pitch-and-run shot
/ beside the remarkable performance of the
other club The club has gradually be-
come popular and is now used by many
! of the leading players of the country
both amateur and professional
Albert Mckenzie of the Columbia
Country Club had a good start for A
fine score at Columbia last week He
scored the first nine holes. the hardest
part of the journey, in sc strokes but
took A for the in nine, for a total
of IS.
The golfers of the Columbia Country
seventeenth green. The green has
been changed by the addition of a
pair of mounds at either side. and has
also been raised at the back about four
feet. making it possible to hit the pitch
a little harder.
The green can now be reached with
a very long tee shot and a possibility
OF staying on. for with the slight raise
at the back the ball will not run so
far as it did formerly
There has been good deal of talk
anent a tournament for the profess
sionals at the Columbia Country Club,
elther before or after the national open
championship. which probably will be
held at the Whitemarsh Valley Country
Club of Philadelphia. The District of
Columbia has never held a pro tourney
aud undoubtedly an event of this
ture would be fine thing for the game
1t is likely that if the proposed tourna-
ment rnaterializes radical change
viii be made in the division of the
prize money, the provision being that
there be but seven money places. thus
ma king the pros play better golf to get
in the money. Jack Burgess of Chevy
Chase came to the eighteenth green at
the Allegheny Country Club in the
| final round of the Pennsylvania open
championship a short time ago with a
| long putt to tie for second money. Nat
| urally he tried for the putt and in so
doing ran so far over that he had a
| long one coming back. He took four
puts and was in a quadruple tie for
| fourth place. OF course, never having
won the second place money. he did not
miss II, but If the money places are
duced from ten to seven more than one
| pro will have to make a long putt on
! the last green to get place.
At the annual meeting of the Ban
nockburn Golf Club in the Southern
! building, last Thursday evening, Presi-
dent Hazard and other officers gave
detailed statement Of the management
! of the clubs affairs during the past
year. In spite of the increased dues
| since January /. 1916. the membership
! has not fallen off since that date and it
! is believed that with the improved con-
/ dition resulting from the work on the
| course during the calendar year
! the club will be in prosperous con-
dition in 1917. Havi.tg only nine holes
in playing condition causes the course
| to be congested at week ends. but it
/ relieved through the opening of few
( additional holes in the spring.
| President Daniel L. Hazard of Ban
| mock burn will spend his Christmas hol-
| idays at his home at Narragansett Pier.
| a proposition has been made through
/ Howard H. Beckett of the Washington
! Golf and Country Club concerning
! trip to Richmond of Beckett, Jack Bur
/ CESS of Chevy Chase and Fred Mcleod
! Of Columbia, to play match with Wal
ter Beckett. pro at the Richmond Coun-
| try Club, in the near future.
! The dcarth of suitable hickory shafts
/ for golf clubs has again brought up the
/ question Of the legality of steel shafts.
! The steel shafted clubs undoubtedly
! viii give greater distance with less ef
I fort than those with wooden shafts.
! but to balance this is the expense of
using them. for the wooden heads split
! very easily If attached to steel shaft
/ II is claimed by several professionals
I that a steel-shafted club picks ball
[ out of heavy lies much cleaner than
| one with wooden shaft and also gives
| greater distance. Lately steel shaft
| made on the principle of the girder has
| found favor and aSSuredly gives great
Ler distance. at the same time proving a
| rest to the wrists. for II the shot is not
| made cleanly the "dirL" as the Scots
| call IL. is not pronounced. Allan
| Lard of the Chevy Chase Club uses
| these girderlike steel shafts.
| A. j. Cummings of the Columbia
Country Club sprung good one on
Jack Burgess at Columbia last Mon
day Burgess had played two perfect
shots to the green and then had missed
a short putt for four. Cummings
topped two shots. hit his brassie third
I over the green so that II hit chair on
top of the hill overlooking the green
and the ball caromed back dead to the