Evening star., 1916-08-15
DOWN TO SEM|-F|NALS
Interesting Golf Matches for Henry
Williams Cup at Ban
nockburn.

T. ]. w. Brown defeated w. ]. jack
| son in the upper half of the draw for
| the semi final position in the play for
the Henry Williams cup at Bannock-
burn and will play J. Martin
Scranage for the final bracket. The
other winners who will compete for the
honor of the final place are Lee Gran
dali and John L. Warren. These matches
will be played Saturday.
Jack Burgess of the Chevy Chase Club
after long siege of illness has return
ed to the game He has been in bed
ever since the professional match over
the Washington Suburban course, more
than two weeks ago, at which time he
was ailing.
The Chevy Chase Club has one of the
coming golfers of Washington in Rich
ard Davidson. the son of H. Bradley
Davidson. The young man comes of a
very fine golfing family. for his uncle
is John Davidson of the Columbia Coun-
try Club and last years middle Atlantic
| champion. Richard has been getting
around the long Chevy Chase course in
30 or better for the past two years and
gives promise of being as good or per-
haps little better than his uncle.
Two important Journeys are on the
cards for the amateurs this week. and
the paid talent have one in which
they can show their speed. The Ma
tional Golf Links of America will hold
it's annual invitation affair. and the
Wyantenuck. Club of Great Darlington
will afford the amateurs a little di-
version in the way of a tournament In
which many nationally famous golfers
will play. The National Golf Links
event will attract the greatest field of
Carter, Oswald Kirkby. Fred Her
reshoff. Reggie Lewis, E. NJ. Barnes
and Nelson Whitney, who had round
of - there a few days ago. At
Wyantenuck Max Marston and /Hamil-
ton X. Kerr will share the limelight
with Jimmy Standish of Detroit, the
man who vanqushed Francis Ouimet
last year in the automobile city and
for the past two years runner-up to
Chick Evans in the western amateur
championship. Standish will probably
make it interesting for the best in the
east. as he has never played in this
section to any extent. Three years ago
he played in a tourney near New York,
and on that occasion was runner-up.
The western open championship
opens at the Blue Mound Club of Mil
waukee Thursday, and 1T is expected
that all the eastern talent, which has
been winning such signal honors in the
pro Journeys to date, Will be on hand
for the major event of the west. Tom
Mcnamara, last years winner, is not
playing as well this year as he did
when he won the event last year, and,
with the names of Walter Hagen, Jim
Barnes and Bob Mcdonald, the three
players who have been In the fore
front of the many pro events this year,
the competition will be at least inter
esting. The Blue Mound course, besides
being short, is not bunkered as well
as it might be. and from the appear
ance of some of the scores which have
been turned in in practice the winning
mark of the tourney should closely
approach the figure set by Jim Barnes
when he won the Newspaper tourna-
ment a few weeks ago.
A score of 65 was made over the
course a few weeks ago, and it is ex-
pected that in the heat of combat this
mark will be bettered.