Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-04

golfers believe Francis Ouimet is
entitled to play as an amateur.
Very few of the star golfers of the
Chevy Chase Club are playing winter
golf here. Samuel Dalzell and Allan
Lard get out occasionally. but Walter
Tuckerman. Reeve Lewis. Ashmead Fuller
and several of the others have played
scarcely any golf since the last OF Novem-
ber Dalzell and ]. d. Cassels played
round last week
Walter S. Harlan, vice president Of
the Columbia County Club, left for
Augusta, Ga, last Wednesday. where he
intends to resusciate his game He will
not return until April ]. For many years
Harlan was among the best golfers of
the city, but in the past two years it is
doubtful if he has played more than
half dozen times.
The Columbia course was again closed
Thursday on account of the softness of
the ground. Albert Mckenzie Charles II.
Orme and Fred L. Davis could not play
at Columbia and went to Kirksde to
play.
Fred Mcleod and Jack Burgess played
at Columbia. Tuesday the home club pro
getting around in rs to Burgess 80
Emmons Smith jr.. son of the president
OF the Columbia Country Club. playing
the first hole of that course one day last
week. topped his tee shot, sliced his
second to the ditch and then holed out
his mashie-niblick shot from fifty yards
away from pin. Mcleod and Robert f.
Burks. playing twosome Tuesday both
registered Is on the eighth hole
| A road is to be built around the prom
| erty Of the Bannockburn Golf Club in
the near future and building lots laid
out. 1t is expected that the property
| adjacent to the club holdings will be
desirable in the future as homes for
the members. Several members now
| have summer camps in the woods near
the clubhouse.
The Merton Cricket Club has been
allotted the women's championship of
Philadelphia, to be played during the
! week beginning May 81. The woman's
| national championship will be held
try Club. starting October ]. The
woman's metropolitan championship
will be played at the Piping Rock Club
of Long Island, June 1922.
1t has been decided not to move the
tee of the twelfth hole at the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club across the
creek. on account of the width of the
| fairway near the green. There is no
way in which the fairway NAV be
widened. and the space is SO narrow
that 1t offers no opportunity for a
slightly missed shot to stay out Of the
creek.
Golf activities in the south are TAX
ing on increasing interest with the
augmented numbers of fine players
there. more. probably. than have ever
gone south before. Many of the best
players of the New York district now
are either at Pinehurst or Belleair
among them being Gardiner White,
Henry ]. Topping. Philip Carter, Wal
ter ]. Travis, Lee Maxwell and a num-
Der of professionals.
Bob Mcdonald and Jock Hutchinson
have not left the north yet, but
Hutchinson has promised Burgess, the
professional at Chevy Chase. that he
will stop here for day and play with
him. The latter will not go south until
the date for the north and south open
championship rolls around. Mcleod of
Columbia Is planning to leave for
Augusta about February IL, and may
go from there to Houston. Tex. where
professional tourney is held each
= year ION the Journeys held in
1914 and 1915.