Evening star., 1916-07-31
McLEOD AND SPENCER CAPTURE
EXCITING PRO" GOLF MATCH.
Defeat Burgess Brothers Over Washington
Suburban Club Course by Up and 2
Before Good Sized Gallery.

The combination Of Jimmie Spencer,
representing the Washington Suburban
Club. and Fred Mcleod of the Columbia
Country Club defeated the Burgess
brothers yesterday afternoon in the
match played over the Suburban club
course by up and to play. The golf
was not of tho highest type as mono Of
the men was playing up to his usual
standard; missed puts figuring fire.
quently in the winning Of hole. Nc
Leod played the steadiest game of the
quartet. as was to be expected of such
q seasoned performer and only faltered
once. on the seventeenth hole. when.
after making a brilliant recovery from
what looked like an impossible lie. he
was short on his approach.
A great battle for the low medal
score honors featured the round with
Spencer and Mcleod as the participants.
Neither OF the Burgess brothers were in
the running for the medal prize. as they
had played badly on the first nine. and
when Dave of Bannockburn took a six
on the fifteenth hole, and his brother
Jack Of Chevy Chase lost ball on the
seventeenth hole, they were out OF the
hunt. A special prize had been offered
by one of the members of the Suburban
club for the man who had low score for
the round. and at the seventeenth tee it
had narrowed down to a struggle be-
tween Spencer and Mcleod, with the
latter leading by two strokes.
However. on his second shot to the
distant green he overplayed his mid
iron. and his pail ran into a deep gully
lined with weeds and bushes so high
that he could not see the green. BY a
fine mashie-niblick shot he got out of
the trouble a little over the green, but
his approach was short of the green and
q xvh 1o had n
a sure five. evening the score. At the
last tee 1t could be seen that Spencer
was determined. after his long struggle.
to beat the other man. but he topped
his drive only few yards in front of
the tee. and steady. sure Mcleod. the
hero Of countless matches and one time
national champion. played to get a sure
four on the hole. which was all that
was needed. as Spencer did not lay his
approach dead enough and missed his
four by inches. The weakness of the
Burgess brothers on the putting green,
where they were supposed to outclass
their opponents. was their undoing, and
this disaffection seemed to spread to the
rest OF their game. as neither played as
well as he is capable of doing after a
couple of short puts were missed.
little zest was added to the combat
when. with the Burgess brothers dor
mie four down. Jack sunk a twenty
foot putt on the fifteenth hole to bring
the lead down to dormie three, and
vHeH 0.SASoo toppeu ms Tee snot on the
sixteenth the large and interested gall
lery prepared to see a good fight after
all. but Spencer put a blanket on the
hopes of the brothers when he played a
hne iron shot to the green from a bad
Hs. and got par four. halving the hole
and winning the match, 3 and 2
One of the feature shots of the match
was the recovery of Spencer on the
NTH hole. when. after hooking his iron
shot to a trap, he Clipped out to
within two feet of the hole and halyed
Mcleod, who was on the green from