Evening star., 1916-09-27
GOLF MATCH SUNDAY
Five Local Pro Players Meet
at Bannockburn.
SPENCER HAS GOOD SCORE
Beckett, Spencer and Dave Burgess
Will Oppose Jack Burgess
and Mcleod.
SPENCER HAS GOOD SCORE

Sunday. for the first time in the his
tory Of local competitive golf. all the
professionals of the Capital city will get
together in an exhibition match over
the Bannockburn course, at Cabin John.
The match was inspired by the outcome
of similar contest held at the Wash
ington Suburban Club, when Fred Nc
Leod, paired with Jimmie Spencer. de-
feated the Burgess brothers by 3-2.
This time the men in charge of the
event at Bannockburn, wishing to make
the match embrace all the paid players
in this section, invited Howard Beckett,
the pro at the Washington Golf and
Country Club. to play. Beckett Spencer
and Dave Burgess, the home club pro,
will oppose Mcleod and Jack Burgess.
the match starting at 2:30 o'clock. The
Bannockburn course is In very good
shape, but the greens are a little rough.
The new grass is now beginning to su-
persede the crabgrass, and in short
time the greens ought to show their
customary velvet texture. instead of the
rough surface they have presented the
last three months due to the crabgrass.
This condition is true at all the local
clubs, the young grass just starting to
work its way up through the heavy
crabgraSS.
Jimmie Spencer is going very well
Just at this time. having had a "a
course, a pair of BIS making up his
card. and this included two 6ss on
the first nine. on the eighth hole
and on the second nine. and a on
the seventh hole raising his total. He
is putting with his usual accuracy, and
his short game has lost none of Its
deadly effectiveness. Mcleod is back
on his game again. as his recent score
of II over the Columbia course would
reveal. and not only has he had three
scores within the past month under
IA. but he has not been over 76 for
many weeks. He is hitting his puts
with a good deal more confidence now
than was the case a month ago, and
this will not hurt his chances in the
pro match at Bannockburn, where the
ball must be struck with frmness in
order that it may hold the line. as the
greens are rougher than those at
Columbia.
Dave Burgess always plays his home
course well, getting around consistently
near thirty eight. and it is probable that
thirty EIGHT will come very near to lead
ing the players in the match.
Beckett has been getting around the
Washington Golf and Country Club course
near seventy-one in the few times
he has played in the last three weeks and
can be counted upon to be up near the
hole putting with all his usual accuracy.
He Is, without a doubt. one OF the most
consistent putters in this vicinity, and
seldom does he play a round of golf with
out getting at least one thirty-footer and
Is deadly on the ten-footers.
Jack Burgess. when he has time to
play, gets around the long and difficult
Chevy Chase course in seventy-six or
better. and is putting as well as ever.
The match at Bannockburn should be
very interesting. if only as means OF
comparing the players, although the
course. in the shape it Is a. present hard
ly offers a fair means of judging.
Samuel ]. Graham of the home club
won the qualifying medal in the play
off of the medal round of the Green
wich Country Club tourney yesterday,
leading Hamilton Kerr by five strokes,
while Reggie Lewis failed to turn in
his card. While Graham was capturing
the medal, he took Gardiner White over
the road to defeat by 81. Max Mars
ton won from Reggie Lewis and won
his second-round match from Parker W.
Seeley. Kerr won his first-round match,
but met defeat in the afternoon at the
hands Of Henry Topping. Topping will
play Graham today. and Marston meets
Grant Peacock.