Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-08-05

Columbia Country Club has been fin
lshed. The summaries:
First round-John W. Brawner defeated A. L.
Christman by default; Lee l.. Harlan defeated A
j. clark by default: +. c. Gott defeated ]. NJ
Williams by default Fred J. HaSkin defeated
d. X. Jackson, and =; e. c. Van Lscr defeated
j. A. sharer. ) and i: i. 4. Shoemaker de- De-
feated j. II. Hanna by default: H. p Ccbey
defeated = l. Thurman by default.
Second round-Harban defeated Rrawner .
and L; Haskn defeated Colt by default; Van
Leer defeated slav.n, IL up; Winter defeated
Appleman. l mp; Reeves defeated Weaver. 2
Four of the greatest golfers of all
time, Harry Vardon. Ted Ray. James
Braid and James H. Taylor. recently
Nevill Golf Club at Tunbridge Wells
for the aid of the kentish prisoners
war fund, Braid and Taylor were
paired together and defeated the other
pair. up. in thirty-six holes An
American writing in the Philadelphia
Press describes the sound of the big
guns coming from the contest in
Flanders While the players were put
ting. He says:
1T was then that il occurred to a
few of the persons watching the game
that as the four professionals putted
balls and the gathering circled the
green the guns of the front were heard
guns which, perhaps. were sixty
miles off.
ION short hole the players delivered
an exhibition worth while. not one of
the four balls being more than ten
feet from the pin. Yet this perform
ance was doomed to be looked upon
possibly with far less interest than it
would have been in peace days. as 1000
feet above the links was i British
plane rending the air with its beelille
buzz. and. again. as the golf giants
went down for IS and IS. the rumble
back OF the trenches was heard
Il noticed an officer take his cane.
after he had seen Nardon smack his
ball for go yards, and swing it after
the Nardon style with the overlapping
And whep this wars over. this is
the thing I'm going to spend a month
at If Gods good to me, exclaimed that
officer. Fancy life in the open with
out thought of being shelled or
bombed"
Sounds good to me. TOO. asserted a
Canadian officer Now. in Hamilton
we have crackerjack course which 1
Then Ray swung at his ball. and it
struck tree and landed on the OPP
posite side of the fair-ereen In the
rough. behind another line of trees
for the hole, and Nardon was beaten by
both Braid and Taylor
Basil NJ. Manly. the club champion.
defeated John T. Harris in the third
round Of play for the John Henry
Alva Williams cup yesterday at the
Bannockburn Golf Club. Manly win
ming on the fifteenth hole by 4 ana 3.
One of the great surprises of the
tournament cropped UP In the play yes
terday. when Herman Stabler defeated
T. J. w. Brown on the final green. Brown
was clearly outgolfed. but missed two
puts which might have turned the
match his way.
Bannockburn's greens. in common
with those Of the other clubs about the
District, have suffered from the heat Of
the past week The crab grass is be-
ginning to grow in the greens and Bur
CESS is making great efforts to check
the incursions of this scourge, which
kills all the young grass of the proper
type.
William Mackie leads In the ringer
contest at the Bannock burn Golf Club
with a card Of 81. q. D. Williamson and
Basil NJ. Manly are tied for second
place with scores of SO. The contest
ends August, II