Evening star., 1916-10-01

condition of the course was thought
adequate to hold a tournament and
after talking the matter over at the
general meeting Thursday the COM
...l.tee decided to hold the event. Ban
nockburn also will have its innova-
tions. Instead of giving cups to the
winners of the four siXteens, as has
heretofore been the general rule. the
club will present medals to the win
ners in the flights. The announce
ments of the event will be made short
ly. The tourney will be open to all
members OF clubs belonging to the
Z. s. G. A. and to specially invited
guests. The qualification round at
eighteen holes will be held Thursday.
the 18th, with the first and second
rounds the day following and the
semi-finals and finals carded for Satur-
day, October IA. Entries close Tues
day, October 10.
J. Martin Scranage. chairman of the
Bannockburn greens committee, has
been requested to nominate new mem-
bers of his committee to take the place
of the members who recently resigned
The immediate attention OF the com
mittee will be given to improving the
condition of the course preparatory to
the invitation tournament. The tourna-
ment committee has been temporarily
enlarged for the purpose of conducting
the event The committee now in
cludes as eX-officio members the pres
ident of the club, Daniel L. Hazard,
J. Martin Scranage and ]. r. de Farges.
in addition to B. l.. Taylor and John
T. Harris.
The professional match to be held
over the Bannockburn course this art
ernoon promises some of the best golf
which has been seen in this section
in a long time, for with all the paid
players Of the Capital city getting into
action the match ought to be very
close Fred Mcleod and Jack Burgess
will be opposed by Howard Beckett.
Dave Burgess and James Spencer.
The Middle Atlantic team matches
for the championship of the division
will be held over the Chevy Chase
will be paired by lot with the actual
play-off to be in four-ball matches.
Each team will consist of four players.
The seventh green at the Washing
ton Suburban Club, which has been
fast all summer-so fast, in fact. that
a ball with liberal backspin would not
hold the green-has been slowed up
by the application of water, which has
resulted in bringing up the grass from
the seed which was planted some time
ago.
But two matches have been played
in the championship flight of the title
ington Golf and Country Club. In the
first of these Earl Wheeler defeated
W. E. Seyboth, As, and IN the other
Roy Pickford, who is picked by some
as the winner of the tournament. de-
feated Charles H. Doing. jr.. 2-1. Mon
cure Burke defeated A. w. Dunn in
the second flight. Edward S. Duvall
leads in the composite score compete
tion at the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club, with mark of "a. His score
follows:
Out ....s 5 6 4 : 8 s 4 So
In 4 : 3 4-32-64
The makeup of the local teams
which will compete in the middle
Atlantic team championships, to be held
at the Chevy Chase Club next Thurs
day and Friday. while not decisive,
has been largely picked. Columbia
has wealth of material from which
to pick it's aggregation. The men from
whom the team will be picked follow:
Z. B. Eynon. jr.: w. c. Ballantyne,
Donald Woodward. both the Demp-
seys. Lee Harlan, Capt. George James,
A. Winter and Albert Mckenzie.
At Chevy Chase many fine players
are ready to take their places as rep
of the home club. Sam
uel Dalzell. Donald Cassels. f. NJ.
Weaver, Reeve Lewis. Frank Ellis.
Walter R. Tuckerman and Ormsby Nc
Cannon are all practicing for the
event.