Evening star., 1917-09-09

Club and Jack Burgess of the Chevy
Chase Club left last night for Chicago,
ILL.,. where they will compete in the
western open championship, which will
be played September IS and IA over the
Westmoreland course Of that city. The
struggle to annex the western crown.
which this year will be tantamount to
the national open championship, will
undoubtedly be one of the most fren-
zied that has ever taken place in the
! west. With all the pros itching for a
chance at some competition, thing
they have not had in a great measure
this year, tho fight for first place
should be worth going far to see. All
the eastern pros are to be on hand, and
the men who have recently emigrated
from the Atlantic coast line to the mid
die west. 1. E., Jock Hutchinson and
Bob Mcdonald. will make it doubly in
teresting as a section combat. Both Nc
Leod and Burgess are going very well
of his game 10 evidenced by the fact
that last Wednesday he was around the
Columbia course in So. He believes
that this round was the most perfect
one slip, and that was the result of
having driven too far on the fifteenth
hole. where his ball after the drive was
teed up on a piece Of crab grass and.
his ball In the creek. taking a to the
hole. This. with the exception of the
missed putt on the twelfth, was the
only mistake made during the whole
round; Friday afternoon he played
with Jack Burgess and William Hoover
and was around in II, Burgess being IS
and leading the Columbia pro by a hole
The fall golf season at the Chevy
Chase Club is always busy one With
the return of the star golfers OF the
club from their vacations the annual
competitions for the Horstmann cup.
emolematic of the club championship,
and the annual delightful affair for the
days bring to mind the fall golfing sea-
son. perhaps the best time Of the year
Tor play. The announcement that the
annual fall tournament of the Column
bia Country Club. the banner event of
the fag end of the year about Washing
| ton, will be played Is a pleasing one to
numb bers of local golfers. Although the
tournament will not be played until
| late in the month Of October, 1t will in
dubitably attract a large number of
| out-of-town players. The two big fall
events at the Chevy Chase Club are
closed affairs. being open only to NOM
| bers Of the club Another victory for
| Samuel Dalzell in the Siamese cup com =
petition will bring the present series of
events to close, as the cup goes to a
three-time winner and the star left
| handler has already won it twice.
| According to an announcement sent
| out by Howard F. Whitney. secretary
| of the United States Golf Association,
the executive committee Of that or
! ganization has voted to cancel the
women's national championship. which
| was to have been held over the Shaw
nee Country Clubs links on October l
| to 6. inclusive. This action followed a
| conference with the womens U. s. G. A.
| committee. made up of Miss Fanny Os-
| good of Boston, Miss Marion Hollins of
New York. Miss Eleanor Chandler of
! Philadelphia, Miss Alexa Stirling Of At
| lanta and Mrs. Bruce Smith of Chicago
| At that conference the women declared
| it to be their unanimous opinion that
| owing to the present situation it would
| be inadvisable to hold this event.
This means that no national cham
pionship will have been held this year.
| The Western Golf Association accord
had the temerity to term its champion
| ship the national amateur. but surely
no event can be called national in scope
solely because two or three star east
of Atlanta will thus hold her title for
another year. passing into the war
! championship class. along with Chick
| Evans and Laurie Jenkins of England.
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| little isle" since 1914.
| Emmons S. Smith of the Columbia
| Country Club arrived home from the
| White mountains last Wednesday, Ieav-
| ing Norbert and Tom Dempsey, his
clubmates. still playing golf at Ma
plewood. n. H. Smith. who is one Of
| the best of the younger crop about
Washington, had Is over the Maple
wood course while there. He saws that
| Norbert Dempsey has been playing very
| well this summer. so well, in fact. that
| on two occasions In matches with T. s.
| Worthington, the famous English ANA
| teur. he has held the visitor even. The
| Dempseys will be home next Tuesday.
Harry K. B. Davis of Los Angeles
Cal. noted in the west as an unusually
| long driver, played over the Columbia
Country Club courses yesterday with
George P. James. Alpheus Winter and
Lee L. Harlan. Davis. who was play
ing his second game Of golf this year
| did not score well. but hit a couple
of tee shots which convinced the other
members of the four-ball match that
the reports of his long driving are not
exaggerated. Davis 10 here on govern
ment work. He will play at Columbia
today. On being asked his opinion Of
a great many courses all over the coun.
try and that he had not seen a better
test of golf than the course of the local
club.
Ten golfers of the Columbia Country
Club motored over to Baltimore last
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