Evening star., 1917-03-04

The award of the Middle Atlantic
championship to the Chevy Chase Club
gives that organization two Of the
major events of the local season. This
year the District amateur champion
ship gravitates to Chevy Chase. which
in addition to the annual invitation
tournament given by the club com
pletes the competitive year for Chevy
Chase exclusive of closed club tourna-
ments. Although not officially an
nounced. the probable dates for the
Chevy Chase invitation tournament are
May II, IS and 19. The spring tourna-
ment season this year will be a con-
gested period with the Columbia Coun-
try Club professional event ushering
in the list of Journeys. Following
will come the annual spring invitation
event of the Washington Golf and
Country Club. then probably the Ban
nockburn invitation affair, the Chevy
Chase invitation, the District champion
ship and the Middle Atlantic with the
proposed District professional cham
pionship very likely following the mid
die Atlantic. The District pro" event
is practically settled affair with
final details to be arranged at the
annual meeting of the District Golf
Association the evening of March 13
The dates for the annual womens
championship of the District will also
be settled upon at the meeting of the
District association. At the annual
night Alpheus Winter, secretary of the
association. announced that 1t is the
intention of the Columbia Country Club
to make the spring professional tourna-
ment an annual affair about the date
the pros leave the south.
No extensive changes are in view at
present on the Chevy Chase course, ac-
cording to William Comedian, in charge
Of the golf course.
The Columbia course will be but
slightly changed from the way it was
played last year. The thirteenth hole
has received the most attention from
the course architects. The green has
been narrowed and heightened and the
pits on the sides placed closer to the
more difficult. Confronting wet ground
conditions and a high wind, this hole,
which in the summer time is usually
an easy mashie pitch, becomes q prop
osition to make the finest golfer play
a good shot. Playing with the Demp-
sey brothers last week. Fred Mcleod.
the Columbia pro. was forced to take a
brassie to get home, while Tom Demp-
sey hit fine wooden club shot. which
Just carried short of the pin. The
NTH hole will also be a little harder
than it was formerly. The. tee has
been moved back seventy-fve yards.
Opinions differ as to whether the hole
will be better one than the old ar
rangement, as in the summer time it
was a drive and mashie hole, while the
new hole will require two full shots
under favora BILE weather conditions and
in wet weather will probably be on a
par in the matter Of length with the
eleventh hole. which is reached in two
shots only under the best Of conditions
Nipper Campbell the Baltimore Coun-
try Club professional. liked the tenth
and sixteenth holes at Columbia so
well that he wanted to take them back
to Baltimore with him. Campbell and
Tom Skipper, pro at the Baltimore Sub
urban Club. will play Mcleod and
Jack Burgess next Sunday at Columbia
The Kirkside Golf Club will hold
monthly class competitions this year
at match play. all club members being
eligible to compete.
That the entrants for the omen
championship to be held over the
course of the Brae Burn. Mass, Club
IN June will take as many shots for
their seventy-two holes is the opinion
of Francis Ouimet, former holder of
the national open and amateur cham
pionships. Brae Burn is one of the
hardest courses in the country and in
Ouimets opinion the winning pro will
take an average of rs strokes for the
four medal play rounds Last year
Chick Evans won the open with a
total of 2s6. an average of slightly
over H. but the course was hard
As matter of fact on one of the holes
at Minikhada, measuring over $50
yards. the professionals played it as
birdie and Gil Nichols secured a 3.