Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-26

! nate players from their own sections.
! The committee still has the matter in
| hand and although no formal action has
been taken. it is believed that the action
| outlined above will be followed this
! year. and that all of those named will
/ simply be listed and that when an entry
| is received the secretary of the associa-
| ton will merely satisfy himself that the
| entrant is listed before accepting the
( entry. If this plan is adopted by the ma
| tional body. and all indica tons point that
way. then it probably will be necessary
! for the Middle Atlantic Golf Association
/ to call a special meeting to consider this
subject. Almost all of the other sectional
associations have handicap lists of their
| own and it will not be a difficult matter
| for them 10 select their eligibles, but the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association does not
maintain any such list and neither do
any Of the city associa tons under il. The
! suggestion that the Middle Atlantic AS
! ISOLATION handicap its players has been
| made any number of times but until the
present time there really was no neces-
| sity for such list AS soon as definite
action is taken by the executive commit
/ tee of the national body. then the matter
will be taken up by the sectional body
/ and local golfers will know exactly where
| they stand. There is of course. a pos
| sibility that the Middle Atlantic Associa-
| ton VIII not bother to rate its players at
| all. but that il will simply request the
various clubs to name players which they
/ believe are good enough to be named and
accept the names thus submitted as
| final.
! Lee Crandal jr.. one of the younger
( players at Bannockbu burn, who is now
! teaching at the A Sheville, y. G. School
| for Boys. expects to he back in Wash
ington this summer and is looked upon
as a likely candidate for the clubs
! team.
! q f.1t,
Kinks side now is ready for occupancy
| 1t adjoins the shower room and will be
| used exclusively by the male members
| New lockers have been purchased and
! the old ones have been turned over
| to the women. who also will use the
old house. This will be redecorated
! from top to bottom and made as home
| like possible. the downstairs to be
| used reading and reception rooms
and the upstairs to be used dress
| ing rooms
! Columbia is trying experiment
with the sand in its bunkerS this sea
| son. All of the native sand has been
| removed from every bunker and sea
sand from Chesapeake Beach has been
! substituted.
! The holding of team matches be-
| tween clubs which are members of the
| District of Columbia Golf Association
/
| stood that all of the clubs are in
! favor of arranging a schedule for the
/ coming season. The plan is to arrange
a series of matches between member
| clubs of the association, these ma tches
| to be in the nature of a round robin"
with each team playing every other
| team once. 1t is believed that these
| interclub matches bring the various
| golfers closer together in a personal
way, draw the clubs into closer rela-
ne in
eral
Chevy Chase players will soon he
using the regular greens again. If
the weather continues warm the golf
committee will likely make the change
during the first week in April
The green committee of Bannock-
burn has announced that it will start
the work of rolling the course within
Il few days. A clean up day is being
planned for this week. when numbe
of the male members of the club have
volunteered to pick up all of the sur
face stones on the course. after which
the work of rolling it viii be done.
The greens already are cleared and
have been greatly improved since last
year, and will be put in use probably
about the middle of next month.
When ball lies in or touches
hazard nothing shall be done which
can in any way improve its lie; the
club shall not touch the ground nor
shall anything be touched or moved
before the player strikes at the ball,
except as follows: % The player
may place his feet firmly on the
ground for the purpose of taking his
stance. 90 In addressing the ball,
or in the backward or forward
swing any grass. bent, brush or other
growing substance, or the side of a
bunker, wall, paling or other immov
able object may be touched. 90
steps or planks placed In hazard by
the green committee for access or
eeress from such hazard may be re-
moved, and if ball is moved in so
doing i'll shall be replaced without