Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-13

Ball and a definite selection probably
will be made within the next week or
so. A special meeting of the green
up this matter, but nothing definite
was decided upon.
James E. McClenihan, chairman of
the green committee of the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club. has been
confined to his home on account of Sc
rious illness for the past ten days. His
friends will be gratified to learn that
he is now on the road to recovery and
expects to get out within the next
day or so.
1t is expected that the Riding and
Hunt Club will make definite decision
regarding the indoor tournament it is
planning and the announcement, with
rules governing play and other details.
will be made in these columns next
Sunday. There has been some slight
hitch in the arrangements, but every
thing probably will be Strengthened out
this week and the event announced.
Secretary John T. Harris Of the Ban
nockburn Golf Club probably is the
best bowler of that organization, and
he is burning things up in the For
est Service and Agriculture Interbu-
over 80 in both leagues and seems to
be improving every day. He is consid-
ering the Organization of a Bannock-
burn bowling team and is now scout
ing for available material among the
clubs members. If a sufficiently strong
team can be gotten together, it is his
intention to arrange series of
matches with the other clubs.
Walter r. Tuckerman, the popular
Chevy Chase golfer. is the only local
player who has ever shown up well in
a national championship event, and he
has done SO twice. In 1903, at the
amateur championships at the Nassau
Country Club. Long Island. he just
missed the semi-f1nals by being beat
en-. up. by E. M. Byers in the fourth
round. the latter going through to the
nnals. where he lost out to the veteran
Walter J. Travis. In 1910. at Brook
line. Mass, Tuckerman did even bet
ter. although he had a hard row to hoe
In the fourth round he had to 20
thirty seven holes to beat F. A. Mar
TIN OF EkWanok. and in the semi-fnals
ne was beaten by the same score in an
extra-hoie match by w. X. Wood of
Homework.
The Bannoekburn Golf Club has ap-
pointed M. Rodenbaugh and Herman
sta pier, Two members OF the club, who
are hydraulic engineers, to act an a
special committee to Investigate water
conditions at the Cabin John bridge
course and to make recommendation
to the club as to the most suita BILE
water system to be installed. The Man
will involve either electrical or steam
power for carrying water from the
stream to the highest point on the golf
course. whence it will be distributed by
gravity to the various green's.
Those in. charge of the indoor course
or the Riding and Hunt Club of Wash
ington had originally planned to obtain
the services of Professional George Sar-
gent of the Chevy Chase Club, and it
was expected that he would be on hand
every evening to give lessons and to
take charge of the course. Because
Of the fact that Sargent is leaving at
the end of this month, 1t has been decfd-
ed that 1t would hardly pay for him to
take up the work and Just get things
going about the time he had to leave.
A proposition was made to Jack Bur
CESS. who will succeed Sargent and who
now is here getting acquainted with
the members of the Chevy Chase Club
and familiarizing himself with his new
position, but he prefers to conhne all
his attention at this time to his work
at Chevy Chase. AS the Riding and
Hunt Club is DESTROYS Of obtaining the
services Of pro-" 1t is quite likely
either Fred Mcleod or Howard Beckett.
During the past week. Sam Purvis.
professional at Bannockbu has been
puSliy engaged IN ploWlnS up anu BIAo-
ing the No. green. 1t is expected that
work on it will be completed within
the next fortnight, when 1t will be
sowed and covered down for the re-
mainder OF the winter.
The house committee Of the WASH
ington Golf and Country Club made
ten strike" recently when It decided
to add six or eight bedrooms to the
clubhouse. This action was taken in
response to number Of urgent re-
quests from members who have for
some time past been trying to make
live at the club during the summer
months.
The municipal golf course has been
used great deal this winter, and the
office of public buildings and grounds
has been deluged with requests for ad-
ditional holes. Those who really want
larger municipal course should direct
all of their efforts toward getting their
Harris has recommended an eighteen
hole and nine-hole course, but his
hands are tied unless Congress ap-
proves his recommendation and appro-
PIRATES sufficient funds to carry the
project through.
The green committee Of the Bannock-
burn Golf Club spent Saturday, accom-
panied by President Daniel /. Hazard
and T. J. w. Brown, former chairman
of the green committee, going over the
course and making estimates for opeh-
ing up new holes. The clubs principal
object, of course. is to make use Of tts
present nine holes this season, and to
gradually add additional ones.