Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-15
INTERESTING GOLF NOTES
FROM THE LOCAL CLUBS
afternoon. Leo L. Harlan was David

afternoon. Leo L. Harlan was David
I sons partner.
The Augusta crowd" Of the Columbia
Country Club were the guests Friday at
the Town and Country club OF Harry
Kaufman. The Augusta crowd is
| composed Of players who for the past
four years have made winter TRIP 10
Augusta. Ga. to play golf FRIDAY 3
tournament. which was played IN wv
ball matches. was won by George +.
James and Lindley Sinclair
| The men who played in the event are:
Eugene c. Colt. Q. J. DeMol. g. H.
| Orme, C. A. Watson. J. Thilman Hend-
| rick, George P. James, A. J. Cum .
! minKs, E. c. Colt, Jr.. and Il. Sinclair Oh
the Columbia Country Club and HAIRY
/ Kaufman of the Town and Country
Club.
Student officers at the reserve camp
at Fort Myer were the guests last
night of tho Town and Country Cluo al
a motion picture exhibition at its coun-
try clubhouse.
Waldo r. Pearce and Bruce L. Taylor
are tied at 81 for first place IN tho
ringer tournament at the Bannockburn
Golf Club which ends today. William
Mackie is second with 32. A women's
ringer tournament starts today at Ban
nockburn and will end August To-. Tho
event is played against the women's par
of ~ for the course.
Pairings for tho first match round IN
the play for the John Henry-Aiva VII
liams cup at Bannockburn VIII be mace
today. The first round is scheduled to
be played the coming week Sixty
entries are expected
A new golf sensation has been un-
covered out in California. c. 8. Archer,
a veteran player Of Los Angeles. eighty
years of age. went out the first day OF
the recent Red Cross tournament In
that city and shattered tho amateur
record for the municipal links with
score of IS. Rather good going Tor a
man supposed to be outside winning
form at any game
Lee crandall. 1r., present holder OF
the first round Of play for the John
Henry-Alva Williams cup at tho Ban
nockburn Golf Club today.
The pairings follow:
c. A. Freeman vs.. John T. Harris. J. D. Custis
mons. B. NJ. Manly VS.. J. NJ: Porter. d. J. Doyle
VS.. G. T. Cunningham Carl Hookstadt vs.. Z. D.
% Lee ns S5nnsa william hi mse.s
F. =. Stitt VS.. c. E. FELTON,, G. II. Shaw Vs.
c. W. Calvin. J. A. Emery VS.. NJ: Dorset D. L.
Haassd Rain B. l. T Fssnsi
Miles Taylor c. II. Mcbride.
A fine round by George P. James at
Columbia was stopped by the torrential
shower yesterday afternoon. James was
forced to stop on the sixteenth where
he had 3. 4. 4. for a "A. In the same
match Kimball Finkenstaedt had SINH
lar figures for rs.
,, William Alden Smith. jr.. of Grand
Rapids. a son of Senator Smith Of
Michigan, attracted a good deal of
attention at the Washington Golf and
Country Club where he played last
week, by the excellence of his tee
shots. Smith is one of the best play
ers of the Furniture city. and while
inclined to be slightly erratic. can give
the best players of the middle west
quite a match. He will be in Washing
ton for some time and is expected to be-
come a member of one Of the local
clubs.
John Bryan defeated E. A. varela 2
and in one Of the two matches played
yesterday in the first round of the
Washington Golf and Country Clubs
monthly tournament. James T. McClen-
ahan defeated G. e. Truett in the other
match by the same margin. Richard P.
Halves meets S. L. Mosby today in what
should prove one of the best matches of
the event. Bryan. who has recently
become a member of the Washington
Golf and Country Club Is one Of the
steadiest players in the city. Some
years ago. when connected with the
navy, he played q good deal of golf
about Washington and was at that time
ranked up with the leaders locally. His
rounds over-his home course very rarely
are over rs.