Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-07-09

| ton played against William Mackie and
Dave Burgess, the pro at Bannockburn,
on the 4th of July and the former pair
were returned victors after tight
battle, / up. Beattie had medal score
of 80, which was duplicated by Bur-
CESS. The latter sank a long putt on
the seventeenth hole to square the
| match. but lost the last hole when
Beattie made a great mashie pitch to
the green and obtained a four.
| W. C. Worthington had peculiar
score at this course on the 4th He
played five out of the first six holes in
! three. getting three on the par-four
first, five on the par-five second.
three on the par-three third, the same
on the par-three fourth and three
sixth is not hard par-three hole and
he played it well. At the seventh tee
he realized that he had chance to
break the record of the course and. as
balls he ever hit, but evidently tried to
register three on this 550-yard hole,
for he pulled his second into the ditch
| and lost three strokes getting out.
Bannockburn held an open board
meeting last night at which routine
business was conducted and general In
formation given to members regarding
progress in work done.
a.
the forest service and a Bannockburn
player has returned from his vacation
which was spent at the Lake Waccabuc
Country Club. He brought his goat
| back with him.
| Pat DOYLE and Mike Brady, who tied
! for the Massachusetts open champion
| ship at Brae Burn at 3l6, are to play OF
the tie over this course tomorrow. The
Fourth of July Brady played the course
!
and 10 for his two rounds. 1t looks as
| IL Doyle although he is a fine player.
will have his hands full keeping up
| with Brady in his present form. Brady
established a new mark lot the nrst
nine holes when he negotiated the
initial half in his morning round in SO
| strokes.
| 1t is reported that Gil Nichols, the pro
| at the Great Neck Club of the Metro
! politan district. and for the past ten
wears one of the most prominent pro-
| fessional players in the country, is
! driving a longer ball than ever before.
! He always has been mighty swatter
| off the tee, and when men like himself,
| Jim Barnes the elongated player from
| the Whitemarsh Valley Club of Phila-
| delphia, and Robert Mcdonald. the tall
! Scot who introduced the bagpipe skit
| at Minneapolis, get together. some
| heavy hitting is seen
| The crab grass nuisance which an
nually makes itself felt about this time
of year again is noticeable at some of
the local courses. Last week men were
at work on a good many of the Chevy
Chase greens eradicating this evil. Crab
grass spreads and Kills off the other
and preferable grasses and does not
make a good putting surface as, on ac
count Of it's coarseness, the ball jumps
and hobbies when played over it.
Activity in golf around Philadelphia
is increasing. Last week a team of
Valley Club defeated Merton in the
final match for the team championship
of the Golf Association of Philadelphia.
good four-ball match was played. in
which Cameron B. Buxton of the Hun
tingdon Valley Club, who was runner
up in the Columbia Country Club tour
ney last year and a clubmate, w G.
Pfeld. were opposed to H. L. Wfllough-
by, ira, and Howard w. Perrin of
Merton, two of the best players of the
won, but all of the men were going
we'll and all broke so. Pfel was low
with rs, Willoughby was next with
IT and Buxton and Perrin were each Is.
A short time ago Buxton won the indi-
vidual championship.
Dave Burgess, the professional at the
Bannockburn Golf Club broke the rec
ord for that course last week when he
went around in Stills. He mad a bad
kick after well played pitch on the
eighteenth hole or he might have had
a rs.
feated the combination of Richard
Beattie the club champion, and ]. Vim
ton Birch in a good match yesterday
afternoon, which was carried to the
home green before the former team
won. i