Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-16
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS

enough to make the heat uncomfort-
able.
Fred Mcleod of Columbia played in a
four-ball match at Minikhada few days
before the national open championship in
which Chick Evans. the coming cham
pion Gilbert Nichols. the mighty swat
ter from Great Neck, and Jack Hutch
ison of Pittsburgh and runner-up in
the event, played. The way the scores
mathematician and also gives an idea
as to the speed with which the quartet
was travelling. Evans had a 10 and was
all square with Hutchinson. who had
! ~. Both Evans and Hutchinson were
square with Nichols, who led with II.
Mcleod, who had a rs, was all even
with Nichols and was three down to
Evans. The explanation lies in the
fact that Mcleod had two sevens at the
same places where Nichols went bad
also
Some of the professionals, although
they could not have been treated bet
! ter, were not pleased with the course.
! 1t did not measure up to championship
/ caliber in the length of the holes or
| in the diversity of the distances. The
in nine was largely made up of holes
where the pros were getting home with
| a drive and a mashie niblick pitch,
| usually being distanced at between 800
| and 400 yards. OF course these mas
| tiers of the game drive tremendous dis
| tances, but on many occasions they
| had to play short of bunker that was
| intended for the ordinary players sec
| ond shot. On one occasion Bob Nc
| Donald, who is one of the lengthiest
| hitters among the paid aggregation
! took an eight on the third hole and
/ yet got to the turn in So
All the first round matches in the
| July tournament of the Washington
[ Golf and Country Club have been COM
,,la fall
/ Gight-W. S Campbell defeated s. L.
Mosby 2 up; Earl Wheeler defeated E.
! A. Varela. 3-2 w. A. Knowles de-
feated w. f. Seyboth, 3la-3; r. A.
| Wheedon defeated A. r. Christman,
! 81; c. V. Piper defeated Moncure
Burle by default; George f. Truett de-
! feated W. F. Hoitzman. 2 up; e. S.
! Duvall. jr. defeated E. B. Calvert. IS
! Second fight-C. H. Doing. jr.. de-
| feated f. A. Alarkin. "a; F. L. Plat
Barr defeated Boyd Taylor. up in 81
holes; X. p. Halves defeated J. Hook
: Wright, 3-2: W. H. White defeated
w. H. Woodman, 81; r. g. Hunt
defeated Sidney Kent. 81; A. d. Bern
hard defeated A. w. Dunn by default;
| II. n. Vinall defeated oliver P. New
| man by default.
Third flight. P. Schick defeated H.
| 6. Brown, "a; II. S. Mitchell defeated
w. l.. Yaeger, FL: w. R. Ballard de-
| ~ :" d.
L. Ballard defeated II. A. Kite, 3-2
| o. F. Black defeated w. E. Davis.
| 4la-4: J. T. Burke defeated J. E. Tap
| ham by default; II. b. McCawley de-
feated A. A. Birney. s-5.
| Fourth flight. F. Greenawalt de-
| feated Fulton Lewis. ] up; A. G. Rice
defeated r. A. Oakley Sd: John Writ
| defeated T. B. Jewell by default; Rich
| ard Daniels defeated Powell Browning
| 6-5; A. Kembie defeated H. Erum-
| melkamp. So; L. A. Hawkins defeated
| r. l.. Newhauser. 1 up in 10 holes;
| w. T.. Clark defeated p. H. Rixey, St
| The longest carry on record is cred
| tied to Abe Mitchell of England who
| on the Prestwick course. drove a Dun
| lop 31T.29 yards before 1t touched the
ground. The longest on record in this
| country is the carry negotiated by
Jesse Guiiford, the New Hampshire
| seige gun. who propelled a ball 312
| yards from start to finish of it's flight
Tho training camp at Plattsburg 10
attracting many of the WASHINGTON
golfers from their customary rounds
of tn. links. John H. Clapp one OF the
most prominent of the Chevy Chase
players. is leaving soon for the camp,