Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-19

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tended to wives, daughters and rela-
tives of members and others having
club privileges?" These are just few
of the problems incident to arranging
the first event for the womens cham
pionship. Many of our best woman
players are only indirectly associa ted
with the clubs. For instance. at Co
lumba. although there are close to
hundred woman players. but four of
them are members of the club. all of
the rest having club privileges on ac-
count of the membership of some of
their relatives. To limit the event to
active members only would mean that
the entry list probably would not be
a fourth as large would be the
case if all of those having the priv
ileges of the various clubs We're de-
clared eligible. and. of course. the win
her title if many of the better players
in the city were not allowed to COM
pete. Secretary Alpheus Winter has
announced that the meeting of the ex-
ecutive committee probably will not be
held for two or three weeks at least,
and in the meantime the various men,
bers are looking into all the various
questions which will come uD in order
tnat tnsy may De prepared TO act IN
diligently upon them at that time
Alfred G. Grunwer secretary of the
Washington Golf and Country Club
resigned from that Office last week and
the board OF governors has selected
| Dion Birney. one of the younger play
ers of the club. to succeed him.
Kirkside now is boa sting of a new
clubhouse. large cottage has been
purchased and moved to the course. 1t
adjoins the mems locker rooms and
will be used as the main clubhouse.
The old house is not tenanted now. and
it will be turned over to the woman
members. The downstairs will be fixed
UP as reception rooms and the upstairs
will be gotten in good shape and used
as dressing rooms.
Walter Y. Durand. chairman of the
tennis committee at Bannockburn, has
returned to WASHINGTON from a field
and now is a frequenter' at the club
He is planning to organize a tennis
team and to build one and possibly two
| additional courts for this coming sea-
son.
It would be well for players who ex-
pect to indulge in tournament play this
year to acquaint themselves with the
rules regarding when, where and how
to make claims. In several tourna-
naments last year players felt they
had just cause for making kicks" and
in one or two cases probably would
have benefited materially had they
known the proper procedure to follow.
According to the golf rules, if a dis
pute arises on any point claim must
be made before the players strike off
from the next teeing ground. or, in
case of the last hole of the round. be-
fore they leave the putting green. All
DISPUTES shall be decided by the com
mittee in charge of the competition.
which decision shall be final unless
appeal be taken to the executive COM
mittee of the United States Golf As
ISOLATION, whose decision shall be con-
| elusive.
According to the spring program, as
announced, there probably will be one
set Of conflicting dates. Secretary
F. J. p. Mackie OF the Country Club OF
Virginia has announced that his club
will hold it's annual event either the
| last week in May or the first week in
June, and in either case this will cause
| conflicting of dates with "A local
| event which will mean that few If any
Washingtonians will enter the Rich
| mond tourney. Chevy Chase has all
ready announced its event for May %.
| Is and 81, the last week in May. and
the District championship event. sched-
uled for June and 3. occurs in the
| first week in June. The Virginia club
has not decided definitely. however.
and there is still a chance that it may
take the open dates left-May 1G. II
and IS.
| President Joseph Tabor johnson of
the Washington Golf and Country
Club has appointed a new committee.
| which will hereafter be II permanent
one. In years past 1t has been the
| custom of the chairman of the green's
| committee to appoint each year "a
special committee to take charge of the
| merely a temporary committee. which
automatically disbanded AS soon as the
event was completed. President John
son has announced that he has created
S. Duvall. jr.. chairman, and Dion Bir-
ney and Samuel l.. Mosby. The duties
| Of this committee. in addition to taking
charge of the tournament. will be to
take charge OF all other events at the
club and to do all in its power toward
the interests of the game
| George Cunningham, captain of the
Bannockburn golf team, who was out
of the game most of last season on ac-
ton and should be at his best this
| coming season. He is now playing an
occasional round and has been making
some exceptionally low scores.
President and Mrs. Wilson have been
frequent visitors at the Washington
fortnight and do not seem to mind the
rather unfavorable weather.
Manager Joe Tinker. after reaching
Tampa. took on another catcher, a
n.uaeGs o %ho is Fl has
Academy and worked out with the
Cubs at Tampa last year, but was not