Evening star., 1916-07-23

the Y. S. G. A. rules. Often on some of
the holes the players had to call into
requisition ground rule permitting to
nft ana drop from an unplayable lie.
out the state of the fair green's now is
thought to be such that all ground rules
may be suspended
Many of the Bannockburn members
nave left Washington, and, as at the
other clubs. the hot weather sees a
cessation of golfing activities Ben
lamln A. Ball has gone to Plattsburg
Tor two weeks. Mrs. NJ. A. Moulton is
soon to go to New Hampshire. where
she gets in a few rounds of golf. John
F. Day has gone to Deer Park, Md, and
l.. .. Howard is on a trip through the
west.
TWO of the new holes at Bannockburn
are expected to be opened shortly A
meeting will be held at the clubhouse
manner in which the new holes will be
connected with those already in use
This will not be an easy matter, as the
holes which it is proposed to incorporate
that the problem of joining them with
the others is not easy of solution.
Miss Pauline Lockett would have had
a new woman'S record for the Chevy
Chase course had she holed out two of
her short puts in round played last
week. She did not putt out on the first
and fourth holes. where her ball lay
and but for this she would have had a
sS. The record of 100 is held by Miss L.
Barney.
recovered from her recent illness, and
her friends will be glad to hear that
she is getting in a round of the links
quite frequently.
Warren X Wood former western
amateur champion, broke the course
record for his home links, the Floss
moor Country Club of Chicago. when he
went around the par IS course in Il.
When Wood is going right there is not
an amateur in the country who can
lead him. and on this occasion every
thing was right. He is a magnificent
putter and a fine player of the iron
clubs 1t is generally understood that
when a player gets down into very low
figures his puts are going right.
1t is reported from Chicago that the
Beverly Country Club of that city is
trying the innovation of woman green
keepers with good results. George
O'Neil. the pro" at Beverly, had trouble
keeping the men working and happen
ing to pass a farmhouse one day on his
way to the club he saw the woman of
the family working in the garden while
the man sat under the trees and
smoked his pipe. He stopped off on
his next trip and engaged the woman
as one of his green keepers and it is
stated that she is doing very efficient
work, having a thorough knowledge of
the way in which to make grass grow
On the courses of the continent many
of the caddies were women and it
seemed that they were more con-
scientious than the men. From what
Nardon says in his memoirs the. woman
caddies in France proved more to his
liking than any of the man caddies he
obtained in Europe.
The players at the Washington Golf
and Country Club are pleased with the
new arrangement of the par figures for
the course. Some of the members al
ways had contended that a par of 10
was much too easy for this course and
when Howard Beckett made 66 and
many of the players were getting well
down around ~ with no trouble at all
it was decided to change the figures A
radical revision of all the handicaps
had to be made, but this worked no
hardship on the members. as the new
allowances were all based on the new
par.
A little girl said to her golfing ia
ther one day when he was practicing
putting: Father, why is it that when
you have two for the hole you always
do it in one; and when you have one
for the hole you always take two?"
This little girl spoke the whole philos-
ophy of the putting green in that one
sentence. When player is pressed
and has to do a thing well it is usually
the time when everything goes wrong
except with those great ones to whom
it all comes mechanically