Evening star., 1917-09-17
QUALIFYING THIS WEEK
FOR GOLF CHAMPIONSHIP
Medal Rounds for Washington Golf
and Country Club Title End
Next Sunday.

Golfers of the Washington Golf and
Country Club are qualifying this week
for the annual club championship. The
qualification period opened yesterday
and will close next Sunday. John
Bryan. one of the best players of the
club, elected to play his qualification
round yesterday and turned in a score
of so. made in high wind William
H Woodman. chairman of the greens
committee. turned in card of SO. Roy
H. Pickford, present holder of the JOS
eph Taber Johnson trophy. the cham
pionship cup, will not defend his title
this year, as he is in Kansas City on
work connected with the Department Of
Justice Pickford won the champion
ship from Simeon T. Price last year on
the thirty-sixth green, after having
val. Players with handicaps exceeding
fourteen will qualify for the Birney
trophy.
The qualification round for the club
championship of the Bannockburn Golf
Club will be played next Sunday with
one match play round each succeeding
week. The title is held BIZ Basil NJ.
Manly. who defeated John c. Fales IN
the final last year There has been
some talk of changing the method of
playing the championship to seventy
two holes medal play, but II is not like
" that this change will take place this
season.
The second green at the Bannock-
burn Golf Club will probably be
changed this winter. Shortly after the
course was laid out II was found that
the green was on too much of a slant
and that it was practically Impossible
to stop a pitched ball on the green and
four pots were put in with level pot
toms. This has solved the problem
but has not proved entirely salts
factory, and ]. r. De Farges. chairman
of the greens committee. has recon-
mended that the entire green be level
ed leaving a bank at the right-h hand
side. The change will make the hole a
little easier. as putting through the
pots on the old green has not been
easy.
Fred Mcleod Of the Columbia Country
Club finished fifth in the western open
championship, which finished Satur-
dav over the course of the Westmore-
land Club of Chicago. Mcleod has been
playing better golf for the past month
than he has played for two years and
at the end of the amateur pro four
ball match Tuesday sent wire to his
cIubmaker stating that he felt that
his shots were going right and that
he had a good chance to be in the
money According to the brand of golf
Jim Barnes of Whitemarsh Valley was
playing. no one in this country could
have taken the championship from him
as his score Of 2s3 for the S.4O0-yard
course viii attest. Mcleod played con-
| sistently good golf and appears to have
: gotten back on his game.
| The putting championship Of the Ban
nockburn Golf Club will be held at the
| close of the mems club championship p
| Samuel l.. Mosby of the Washington
Golf and Country Club is probably one
| of the most remarkable putters in the
| country. Last Thursday he was around
| his home course in IL. tying the
| course record. taking only 26 puts on
the eighteen greens. AS par allows
two puts to green for total OF
thirty-six, 1t will be seen what a great
| performance the Thursday mark OF
Mosby was.
A match between Chick Evans and
Jerry Travers and Francis Ouimet and
Jesse Guilford is proposed to be played
| over the course of the Columbia Coun :
| try Club this fall.