Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-22
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS

The Augusta crowd. composed OF
members of the Columbia Country CLUB
and one member Of the Town ana
Country Club. will hold a one-day
tournament in honor of E. B. Eynon.
jr.. at the Columbia Country Club next
Thursday. The tournament will be the
largest OF its kind ever held by this
body of men The players will be
paired by lot In the usual modified FORM
of Scotch foursome and viii play Tor
prizes. The event is the Idea OF Car
ter keene Of the Columbia Country
Club and the details are being WORKED
out by him. A dinner for the players
will be held in the clubhouse after
the tournament is finished.
Fred Mcleod leaves tonight for New
York. where he will play on the SCOT
fish team which will participate in the
international matches on four New
York courses next week Another pro
who formerly was located In Washing
ton will play. George Sargent of MIN
neapolis has been asked to compete
for the English team. The professionals
win play over the course OF ehe Ensie-
wood IN. j. Club. Monday. July %,
with woman partners from shelr nome
clubs in a mixed four-ball affair
On Tuesday. July "a. thirtysix holes OF
medal play will be held. In which all the
players in the event, amateurs and pro
fessionals alike. will compete July 70, the
entire field will jump to Baltusrol. the
scene of the 1915 open championship. and
there the first of the series of interna-
tional matches will be played. On the
first day the Scotch team will play the
home breds and the English team will
meet the American amateurs. The sec
ond day, July 26, at Siwanoy. the ANA
teur team. captained by Jerry Travers.
will meet the Scotch team, while the Eng
lishmen will cross clubs with the home
bredS.
The closing day of play will be held at
Garden City, July 81, when Scotland OPP
poses England and the American born
professionals will meet the cream OF the
country's amateurs. The teams embrace
the best players of the country, and it
will probabl be the greatest array of
talent ever brought together in the
United States. Their makeup follows
Amateurs. Jerome D. Travers. captain:
Charles Evans. tr.; Francis ouimet. os-
Anderson. Bobby Jones. Perry Adair,
Gardiner White and Norman Maxwell
Home breds. Tom Mcnamara. captain;
Walter Hagen. Mike Brady. Tom kerri-
gan, Eddie Loos. Charles Hoffner. Herbert
Lagerblade. Emmett French and Jack
Burke. English. Gil Nichols. captain:
James Barnes. Wilfred Reid, Tom Vardon
Cyril Walker, George Sargent. Herbert
Strong and Phil Gaudin. Scotch. Jock
Hutchinson. captain: Jim Donaldson. Fred
Mcleod. Alex Cunningham, Npper Camp
bell and George Simpson.
Francis Ouimet of Boston, who re-
Gently won the western amateur cham
pionship, was one of the young Amer
leans called to the colors in the draft
Yesterday Ouimet's name was one of
the first to be drawn in the district
where he registered. Although no re-
turns have been made public. it is prob
able that large number of the coun-
try's prominent golfers have been
called to war service. Most of the bril-
liant crowd Of players who have had
tournaments much their own way in
the last five years are within draft
age. Naturally with the cancellation