Evening star., 1916-08-20

prizes of SIS each, eight of $50 each
and sixteen of $50 each. Bronze med
ais Will be given to the winners of
the qualifying rounds in the different
sections. and a silver cup will be given
to the champions club with his name
engraved on IT. The qualifying rounds
Will be at 36 holes medal play and II is
probable that the field will be one of
the greatest ever gathered for a pro,
fessional tournament in this country.
Miss Miller, champion of the state or
Wisconsin. is visiting friends here and
is daily playing golf at the Chevy Chase
Club. She is one of the finest players
| in the west, and in the opinion of those
who have watched her play over the
Chevy Chase course she is destined to
break the woman's record for the
course. She is experiencing quite lit
tie difficulty with the crab grass in the
greens, but is rapidly getting used to
this.
Jack Burgess. the Chevy Chase pro,
has entirely recovered from his recent
! illness and is again swatting the ball a.
| OF old. He does not get as much time
as desired to play. hut feels sure that
when the time comes for the sectional
qualifying rounds for the Rodman
Wanamaker trophy he will be playing
well enough to give the best of them a
rub. If he gets into the match play
rounds he stands a good chance to walk
away with one of the prizes, for he Is
great deal better at match play than
he is at medal form of the game. All
the local professionals are members of
the Professional Golfers Association.
under whose auspices the Wanamaker
trophy event will be played. and all are
expected to take part in the preliml
nary rounds. Fred Mcleod may recon-
slider his determination to play I'm no
more Journeys this year. in order to get
a chance at the five-hundred- dollar mel
on which will be awarded to the win
n rCf fnt
regime
putting contest was held at the
Washington Suburban Club for the
woman golfers of that organization. It
was won by Mrs. Wolf who made four
successive twos on the four holes
played.
Lee Crandall. jr.. secured the position
or hnalist in the upper half of the draw
for the Henry Williams cup at Ban
nockburn in the match played Friday
afternoon. defeating John L. Warren in
hard-fought contest which went nine
teen holes. Crandall was one up at the
seventeenth tee, but lost this hole
through a stymie. The eighteenth was
halved. On the nineteenth Crandal1 laid
his opponent stymie which settled the
match. 7. J. w. Brown and J. Martin
Scranage will play the semi-final in the
lower half today.
good match was played at the Wash
ington Suburban Club yesterday after
noon in which Jimmie Spencer, the pro,
| participated. He took one of the play
ers of the club as a partner, while Oscar
Mckimmie. the long swatter. who has
been causing commotion in the minds OF
those who have seen him hit a tee shot
was paired with another amateur Spen-
Ger had thirty-eight on his first nine
holes and his side was two up at this
stage, but the other pair won two straight
holes and evened the match. The steadf-
ness of the home pro told, however and
the pair captained by the long driving Nc
kimmie lost, >. McKimmie is a very
long swatter. and although he did not hit
all his tee shots yesterday afternoon he
got enough of them away to convince the
watchers that he is second to none off the
tee.