Evening star., 1916-10-15

performances on the goil courses dDoue
the Capital city is made at the close
of the tournament period several new
players must be given q place, to su-
persede those who for some reason
have not played as we'll this year as
in past years. George T. Cunningham
of the Bannockburn Golf Club on the
strength of his showing for the past
two weeks deserves high place in the
ranking list of golfers of the District.
Starting with his defeat of e. B. Ey-
non, jr.. the District champion in the
Middle Atlantic team matches last
week, he continued his fine play by
winning from T. W. Sasscer In the
first round of match play in the Ban
nockburn Clubs fall tourney, after
Sasscer had annexed the low score
medal in the qualifying round with q
IS. Cunningham had a 81 his first nine
holes in his match with Sasscer. and
on his last nine holes against Eynon
over the Chevy Chase course was IS.
Yesterday afternoon Cunningham won
the Bannockburn tournament, defeat
ing w. J. Hughes of Columbia in a
very close match by 1 up. Norbert
Dempsey has made name for himself
two Of the local tournaments, and has
established himself as golfer of
sound principle and excellent practice.
The rain on the second day of the
Bannockburn tournament did not re-
duce the quality Of the golf displayed,
and got the course into fine shape for
the Anal day. 1t is doubtful II there
was ever any better weather for
final match than that which prevailed
yesterday. The sun shone all day and
the wind was bracing and not strong
enough to interfere with the golf.
But one was made on the first
hole at Bannockburn on the qualifying
day. This was made by NJ. Dorset, who
holed his mashie run-up. Richard
Beattie did similar thing on the
sixth hole in his match against ]. s.
was thirty yards wire Of the green. and
he sank his run-up for 2. Another
rather peculiar thing happened to Gil
man Brenizer. The latter entirely
then put it on the green, holing the
putt for 3 with a penalty on very
hard par hole.
Jack Burgess broke the course rec
ord at Chevy Chase on Thursday, get
ting around the long course in 73
strokes, which betters his previous
record by a stroke. J. H De Sibour has
been credited with 76. which is the
best done by an amateur on the course
as at present arranged.
Burgess left Friday evening for New
York, where he saw the finals between
Hagen and Hutchinson for the cham
pionshp of the Professional Golfers
Association of America. Hutchinson
and Burgess are old pals, having
played frequently in exhibition matches
in Pittsburgh.
Burgess will play in the Pennsyl-
over the course of the Allegheny Coun-
try Club of the Steel city next Monday
and Tuesday.
Sam Dalzen and Allan Lard of the
Chevy Chase Club. after having fully
intended to compete In the Bannock-
burn tournament, withdrew their en-
tries, as neither was able to play on
account of other duties.
The entry of Frank Dyer, Pennsyl-
vania state amateur champion and one
of the leaders in the first days play
In the Metropolitan open champion
snip, when he was tied with Charles
H. Hoffner for the lead, gives hope
that many players of more than ordi-
nary ability viii play In the last tour
ney OF the year, and one of the most
pleasant Of the local events. Practical
ly all the best Of the Baltimore players
will attend the tourney. Tom Sasscer
will play, as will II. Lennox Bond of
the Baltimore Country Club and prob
ably George T. Small. It is not known
whether z. Warren Corkran will play
or not. for just now he is very busy. 1t
is quite certain that his brother Clarke,
one of the semi -tnalists in the nation
al amateur championship, will not COM
pete. as he is attending Princeton Uni
yersity.
The Columbia course was never in
better shape than it now is with the
putting greens fast and true and the
fair greens In excellent condition. Fred
Mcleod. the pro at Columbia. has been
! Ill for the past two days, but his ILL
| ness is not serious and he will prob
| ably be out in short time. /
! The putting greens at the Wash
| lngton GOLF and Country Club, which
were in pretty bad shape after the crab
grass had been removed, are now be-
| ginning to look almost as wen as they
| did In the spring, when they were very
/ nearly perfect. There has not been
| much activity in golf at this course IN
| the past week, as good many OF the
| players have been competing In the
! A man who had never hit q golf ball
| before went out to the Kirkside Golf
| Club last week and played around with
one of the members. He got along
| fairly well until he came to the short
eighth hole. where the distance looked
| long enough for him to use a driver
SO, against the caddie's advice, he took
| out the wooden club and let go. All
| Unexpectedly he really got hold Of the
| ball and 1T vanished, going strong In
| the general direction Of the Connecti-
| cut avenue car tracks. It was never
fund and the novice still wonders
will ever do 1t again.
The club Championship of the Wash
> ln2ton Col. and Country Club has