Evening star., 1916-08-08
MAY HOLD GOLF TOURNEY
Bannockburn Club Practically De-
cides on Invitation Event
in Fall.

At recent meeting of the board of
Club it was practically decided to hold
an invitation tournament the latter
part of September or Immediately pre-.
ceding the Columbia Country Club tour
ney in the middle of October AS a
member of the Cabin John Club stated,
it will be a workout for the players
in the Columbia event, as the golfers
are apt to be somewhat stagnant as a
result of lack of competition through
the summer. The question has been
debated for some time, and a good
many of the members We're strongly
against it. as the present condition of
the course is not, in their minds, fit
for tournament But the great i'm
provement of the links in the past few
weeks has removed the last vestige of
opposition, and the tourney is now
virtually a fixture. The greens. under
the care of Dave Burgess, who is fine
greens keeper, have been stripped of
crab grass, and are now in perfect
playing shape, and the course, as a
whole, is in better shape than ever
before.
But one match remains to be played
in the Bannockburn tourney for the
John Henry-Alva Williams cup in Or
der to have the tourney reduced to the
semi-finals. J. Martin Scranage beat
John T. Harris up, jumping into the
headed. w. P. Jackson defeated Hugo
Hesselbach. 5-4. T. J. w. Brown will
play Jackson for the semi final racket
B. L. Taylor led Lee Crandall by four
holes at the ninth tee. but here Gran
dali started brilliant streak and, by
hOllug good Dutt the last
defeated his opponent, l up. William
Mackie. who had defeated the club
champion. Richard Beattie, in the
early rounds of the tourney, had John
got a little careless, with the result
that the contestants came to the
eighteenth all square, and when it was
ha1ved extra holes were in order. The
match was won by Warren on the
nineteenth
A cup has been presented to the club
by Richard Beattie and will be played
for in the fall, the winner to be known
as the club champion.
The big professional tournament at
the Shawnee Country Club begins to-
day with one of the most brilliant en-
try lists in the history of the event 1t
was won last year by the Temperament
tai Gil Nichols of the Great Neck, L..
l., Club, who, on his second round turn
ed in a card of 6s. which has not been
equaled on the Shawnee course since
Gil Will find plenty of competition, for
such mighty sons of swat as Walter
Hagen, metropolitan champ; Jim
Barnes, the diminutive Wilfred Reid
and many others who number among
the finest of the land are slated to tee
up at Shawnee. At one hole on this
course a woman player took something
like 154 strokeh. OF course the hole
includes water hazard, and the wom-
an put half dozen balls in and then
commanded her husband. who was
present. to hire a boat and come with
her, which hubby did to his discom-
future. for his wife. determined to play
the hole, stood up in the boat, and when
her ball came within range took vari-
Gus whacks at the pellet until she had
got 1t to the bank, when she proceeded
to hole out in the aforesaid number of
strokes. She did not do so badly after
all, for on this same hole Harry Var
don took eight strokes in the pro tour
ney of 1913.