Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-07-29

George Sargent. formerly profession
al at the Checy Chase Club and now
with the Interlachen Club of Min
neapolis. Mimi. arrived in the city this
morning. Sargent has been playing
with the English team in the interna
tional matches in New York and is in
Washington on business. He may play
at Chevy Chase with Jack Burgess this
afternoon, but made no engagement
by letter.
Burgess and Fred Mcleod of the Co
lumbia Country Club are planning to
play in the open tournament annually
given by the Shawnee Club at Shaw
nee-on-Delaware. which this year will
be held August and 9. The Shawnee
tourney is one of the few big profess
sional events held this year, and prob
ably will be very popular among the
eastern professionals, at least. Jack
Hutchinson probably will not come, the
distance being too great from Chicago,
but. Nichols. Hagen, Barnes, Mcnamara.
Brady, Loos, Hoffner and the rest of
the leading eastern professionals will
play. Burgess and Mcleod will also
play in the western open championship,
the only open title event to be held
this year. The championship. will be
played over the course of the West
moreland Country Club, one of the
newer OF the Chicago courses, Septem-
Der 13 and IA.
Miss Pauline Lockett. one of the lead
ing women players of the Chevy Chase
Club, is again playing golf after Sc
rious illness. which kept her out of the
game for a month.
Jack Burgess has not been able to do
better than a pair of IT'S over the
Chevy Chase course in the week Just
past. The continued rains of the past
month have made all the courses slow,
and the grass has grown so fast that
greenkeepers have experienced diff
Guilty in keeping it properly moved
This. however. Will prove to be a good
feature ultimately. for the course will
not be so baked in the latter part Of
August. There 10 slight danger of hav-
ing new grass on the green's killed by
the hot sun Immediately after heavy
rain.
Fred Mcleod had pair of fine rounds
at Columbia a week ago today Play
ing with Harris Brown as partner
in the morning, he was around in 20,
this pair defeating Donald Woodward
and George P. James. In the after
noon Brown and Mcleod defeated
Woodward and E. B. Eynon. jr., Mcleod
again getting around in 20. Brown
had on the sixteenth and on
the seventeenth in the afternoon round,
which permitted his team to win the
match l up. According to reports from
New York. where the tournament for
the war relief fund under the auspices
of the Professional Golfers Associa-
ton has been in progress for week
past, Bobby Jones of Atlanta. called
the kid wonder" has been playing re-
markable golf. In the first Of the
series of international team matches
PLAYED at Baltusrol last Wednesday
Jones and Norman Maxwell defeated
George Sargent and Herbert Strong
Of the English team quite easily. and
in the individual matches Jones won
from Cyril Walker. In Thursdays
matches at Siwanoy Jones and Perry
Adair won from Jock Hutchinson and
Fred Mcleod. and in the afternoon the
Atlanta youngster defeated Mcleod by
two holes, all of which would seem to
further strengthen the claim made by
Boobies admirers that he will some
day soon be national champion. One
Of the greatest surprises of the tour
nament was the fine showing made by
Jerry Travers. captain of the amateur
team. Jerry has not played much golf
this year, and in the first Of the series
defeated Gil Nichols by three holes.
the next day giving Jock Hutchinson