The Washington herald., 1917-11-04

1t looks very much as il Washing
ton tennis players have laid down
on their job" in connection with the
raising Of the thousand dollar fund
to pay for an ambulance as this city's
bit toward the big git being raised
by the United states Lawn Tennis
Association to provide for three am
bulance sections for service abroad
in Rcd Cross work. Practically moth
ing has been done since last week
when about one-tkird Of the money
Rad been Subscribed. and the members
of ihe general committee. which has
undertaken TO look after the local
end, are greatly disappointed at the
| apparart lack OF interest shown. 1t
I is. Of course. realized that war con-
| ditions have been responsible for quite
a drain on the resources OF every
! one. but II was hoped that approNi-
matcly three thousand players could.
without any material sacrifice, raise
/ this p"opoTtionately spnall sum. The
, committee plans TO Campaign" for
another week or so i'm order to thor
! ouEhly convince itself that local play
{ ers are not in sympathy with the
/ movement at the eEd of which time II
/ will send in what has been raised
with tn" confession that Washington
TacqUrttors for once are NOT willing
to do their share. The committee is
! 10th to do this and is giving tennis
/ players one more chance to come
| across"
! Local golfers were greatly disap-
I pointed at the failure of Chick
I Evans to show up on Wednesday.
! VIII n he was expected in town and
/ horoi In play a round over the Col
Wrhia Country Club course with Jack
BURGESS. and Fred Mcleod. Evans
/ got rs far East rs Philadelphia. but
was called back TO Chicago ard the
match was declared of at the last
minute. Mcleod receiving a telegram
from him early Wednesday expressing
his regrets at being unable TO play
here.
George L. Truett is still leading in
the ringer" tournament at the WASH
inrton Golf and Country Club. with
n -. In fact, there have been no
changes in the standing of the three
leaders. Charles II. Dooing and Sam
ucl No. hy being the only others with
marks OF less than 60. having 81 and
~ rcsp'g lively. This event will not
| close until Turkey Day" which is
stiH so'an time off, but it is not likely
that there will be any further changes
as these three scores are mighty hard
to beat. Last years event was won
with n -.
Lou" Doyle and "Ab" Leech. who
have hccu dividing local tennis honors
from an administrative viewpoint for
the past few years, will have a rivaI
on the field in the course of a few
weeks rs It is learned that Paul b.
Williams. Field Secretary of the
United states Lawn Tennis Associa-
tion has been offered and has accepted
n government position in Washington
Williams was in Washington in con-
neCtion with this position on Thurs
day and will probably move here in
the next week or so. He expects to
continue his afliliation with the L. S.
l.. T. A.
There are only seven players left IN
the annual putting event for 1917 now
going or at E3annockburn. In the
aTper half are Cunningham, Harris,
Manlcy and Hazard, while Doyle.
Searle Aid Mcbride will fight things
out in the lower half. This event is
bringing out some exceptional putting.
Last saturday. John Harris had to
go % holes to win from Mrs. ]. R.
De FarGes. The latter apparently had
the match we'll in hand, when Harris
pulled up and squared things on the
eighteenth with .. 1t then tok him
seven moro 2's to win, Mrs. De Farges
getting 6 but taking on the twenty
fifth. Other extra hole matches were
between Scarleand Williamson, which
went % holes, and Mcbride and Ston-
, ier. who played one extra one.
The Columbia Country, Club held its
annual meeting last week, at which
time all Of its officers were reelected
for another year. They are Emmons
S. Smith. president; Walter S. Har-
ban, vice president; Arthur B. Shell
ton, secretary. and John Poole, treas
urer.
Our attention has been called to the
fact that Lou" DOYLE has been men
toned above as sharing "adminis-
trative" honors in local tennis events.
We owe him an apology, as when we
made that unfortunate reference we
forgot that he had cleaned up, in
both the singles and doubles District
championship events. The word .'ad-
ministrative' should have been omit
| ted in his case.
DIR. James T. McClenihan, chairman
of the green committee of the WASH
ington Golf and Country Club, reports
that there will be practically no
changes made in that course during
the winter months. The hill in front
of No. 2 green is now being cut down
so that the hole can be seen from the
tee, but this is the only change con-