Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-05

of the championship event The Wash
lnston Golf and Country Club will in
wife the association to hold the event
over its course. Its course is an eight
cen hole one, and although many do
not consider it of championship caliber
yet there is a question as to whether
the District event is of such impOr-
tance~aS to require A model course The
question has not come up before, as the
event has been held only twice. and on
both of these occasions it was awarded
to the two larger clubs matter
of courtesy. In case the majority IA
vors combining the event to the two
Columbia. as Chevy Chase held it last
year.
II is surprising how fast the changes
Country Clubs course are coming
along and present indications are that
by early summer every change will
have been completed and in use Ac-
cording to Walter Harlan. Chairman
OF the green committee. and an au-
thority on all golf matters. when all
Of these changes are completed. of the
1000 or so courses in the United States
the Columbia course will not be rated
tower than tenth or twelfth on the list
j. Martin Scranage. chairman of the
green committee of the Bannockburn
Golf club. who will represent that or
ganiZatlOn at the meeting of the Dis
trict of Columbia Association tomor-
row night. will introduce on behalf of
the club a resolution for considerations
a copy of which already has been sent
to the various local clubs so that they
can give ii thorough consideration be-
fore it is actually brought up for
vote. This resolution calls for the
eSta bliShment of a register in the Of
hce of the secretary of the association
which shows the names of all members
of clubs who have been dropped on ac-
count of non-payment of dues. The
idea is for all clubs to forward to the
secretary of the association the names
of any of it's members dropped for this
reason, and for this list to be open to
the secretaries Of the clubs. 1T is be-
EeVed that this idea is exceptionally
good one and that it will be adopted,
with possibly one or two changes. Now it
is possible for a member of one club to be
dropped for non-payment of dues and
to be admitted to another club simply
because the latter club has no way of
finding out about his previous record.
The District association was organized to
benefit the local game and to bring the
clubs closer together. and by making rules
of this kind by which all clubs CO
operate with the association as head
quarters it VIII do more toward real
iZing the ambitions of it's organizers
than anything else.
George Sargent left for MINNEAPOLIS
Tuesday night carrying the best wishes
of II the members of the Chevy Chase
club with him. Sargent has been with
that club for six years, and undoubted
~ the most popular pro" it has
ever had. and there was not golfer
there who did not regret to see him
leave. Jack burgess. who is now on
the job. also has made himself many
friends in the short time he has been
here and Will. no doubt. prove to be a
very rapa BILE successor While he rs
not quite in Sargent's class as d player.
this is due largely to his lack of tour
uamcnt play. and as he expects to COM
pete in all the big open events during
the coming season his work in them
will be watched with much interest.
T. j. w Brown of Ba ;nnockburn
has recently patented golf course
marker or pin which he intends to
name after the club. He gave dem
onstration of how to use it Immediately
following the Middle Atlantic Golf As
and all present are loud in their praise
of it, II is made of steel. in two
parts. and is hinged and weighted.
BY its use the caddy removes 1t from
the hole. places the weighted end in
it, and the hinge enables him to stand
two or three feet away from the hole.
This is very important item, as the
constant trampns of the. caddies
around the edges OF the hole while
marking it is very hard on the green
and forces the. green committee TO he
continually moving the hole to differ
ent parts of the green.
Secretary Mackie of the Middle At
lantic Golf Association announced at
Thursdays meeting that there was
nothing to the rumOr which has been
scattered broadcast that some of the
Philadelphia clubs wanted to cast their
lots With the association. AS a matter
of fact. clubs in Pennsylvania are not
eligible for membership in the Middle
Atlantic Association.
The Kirkside Golf Club is improv-
ing three of it's holes by putting in
tile, bitches. These are the present
eighth, ninth and first holes. which.
under the ney plan. will be Nos. J.. =
and 5.