Evening star., 1916-11-26


acting as a deterrent to the speed.
Fred McLeod's great score of SO made
over the Columbia course last week,
although registered with two tempo
rary green's was a fine exhibition of
the game. According to Jack Burgess
of Chevy Chase. who played over the
course on Monday. the roughness of
the temporary seventeenth green more
than makes up for the shortened dis
tance, and the thirteenth is certainly
not easier than when the green is on
top of the hill. for the temporary put
ting surface lis small and rough and
very near the ditch. Notwithstanding
the irregularity. McEeod's performance
was great. but the mark will not stand
a record.
The Washington Golf and Country
Club will hold handicap against par
for its members on Thanksgiving day.
$. L. Mosby has Joined E. s. Duvall.
G. E. Truett and Simeon T. Price at the
mark of Sc in the composite score COM
petition a the Washington Golf and
Country Club, and as the event closes
on Thanksgiving day it is not likely
that the score will be reduced unless
one of the quartet holes a mashie shot
Or something else extraordinary.
A new trap has been pus across the
front of the fourteenth. green at the
Washington Golf and Country Club,
ming his ball up to the green and makes
necessary an accurate pitch. Formerly
any one who wished could take the
shorter way and hit low iron shot
which would bring up in the neighbor-
hood of the green. but as the hole
stands now it is not possible to half
top an iron and still get a par 8. The
trap in the back of the greAn elimi-
mates the possibility of pitching up
against the hill in the rear and rolling
back the green
The power of the putt is shown by
the fact that in the final thirty-six
holes. of the match between Mike
Brady and Louis Teller over the Oak
ley, Mass. course Brady was down on
seven greens in one putt. How this
contributed to his winning game is
shown by the fact that in the first
first hole and sank good puts on four
of the next five greens to bring the
lead down to two holes. Brady won
| by 81 in the final thirty-six holes
The annual meeting of the Bannock-
burn Golf Club will be held in the
Southern building next Saturday even
ing. In addition to the reports from
the officers and various committees
| three or more members of the board OF
governors Will come up for election,
while the constitution of the organiza-
| ton provides that the management of
| the club shall be in the hands of the
active membership The discussion of
ways to promote the welfare of the
| club will be open to all and the asso-
| ciate members are invited to attend
the meeting and participate in the con-
sideration of various matters. Among
! the members of the board of governors
whose term expires is President Dan
iel L. Hazard, who has served for
years as a member of the board, and
who for the past year has been presi-
dent OF the club. j. Martin Scranage
chairman of the green committee, finds
himself unable to meet the demand
upon his time which a thorough under
standing of his position involves, and
has rendered his resignation to take
effect the first of the year
Bannockburn is progressing salts
factorily in the clearing of the timber
from the new holes and expects to be
able TO put at least two of them in
playing shape by next spring.
The members of the Bannockburn
Golf Club will compete in a handicap
against par event Thanksgiving day.
Under the direction of Col w. W.
Harts. U. S. A, the plans for the con-
version or a space now heavily wooded
are being carried out. and it is expected
that soon a public golf course of good
size and quality will be one of the at
fractions of the lower Potomac Park
district.