Evening star., 1917-10-07
MCALLUM winner
OF GOLF TOURNEY.
Defeats George P. James, 6
and 5, in Fall Event of CO.
Iumbia Country Club.
VICTOR STRONG AT PUTTING

Walter R. McCallum of the
Washington Golf and Country
Club won the annual fall golf
tournament of the Columbia
Country Club yesterday, defeat
ing George P. James of the home
club in the final round, e and S.
McCallum won more through the
mistakes of his opponent than
through his own good golf, as he
had the first nine holes in Al and
turned e up. This in itself ex-
presses the bad quality of golf
James was playing yesterday aft
ernoon.
All the way through the final
round James, usually a fine putt-
er, missed puts ranging from
two to six feet, while his OPP
ponent, on the other hand, was
putting very well, running down
a twenty-footer .on the fourth
hole to win with S, when James
missed four -footer, and sinking
a ten-footer down the hill for a
3 on the sixth. A belated squirt
by James, which started at the
tenth hole, when he was 6 down,
came to an end by his topping
niblick pitch to the twelfth
green, when he should have had
the hole Won, his ball coming to
rest in an impossible lie in .
patch of briars back of the green.
Mistake Costly to James.
This mistake cost James a chance
to carry the match farther, as Mccall.
lum at this point had developed hook
in his tee shots which got him in trou-
BILE on the tenth and twelfth holes. and
il James had won the hole he would
have been out down and q to play.
AS it turned out, he lost the hole. which
made him 3 down and to go. Mccall
lum winning the short thirteenth when
James took three puts, to lose by
and 5.
A high wind made the play Of both
finalists incline to the erratic and the
chill of the early afternoon made
sweaters comfortable.
Both men started badly on the fret
hole, McCallum with the honor, hook
ing his drive to the woods. whence
he pitched out almost on the green.
James took a cleek after having skted
his drive and sliced to the chocolate
drops to the right and short OF the
green. McCallum was short with his
run-up and James twenty feet over.
Both missed their puts and the hole.
was halved in 5. James again skied
his tee shot at the second hole. after
McCallum had hit long ball to the
rough to the left. James played .
ing over the bunker to the left Of the
green and finishing behind the mound:
McCallum missed his second shot and
put his third four feet from the hole
James played iine niDiieR lex piscn; s,st
trickled over into the sand trap, from
which he again overpitched the green,
picking up his ball and conceding the
hole.
niece of luck, his hooked tee shot
Catching the edge of the rough and
stopping short of the ditch: while
lanes. who had hit low ball into the
wind, found the ditch. He dropped
back and PLAYED his third isa .resn into the as
four shots. McCallum was dead In .
like number and won the hole with .
g. becoming up.
fourth, while James hit high ball
into the wind which was well out OF
the rough in front of the tee. and 10 get
out of rough took quite a shot yester-
day. the wind being rsn drsetly solyer IN hit shs
faces of the players; The former ond Iames ae 6
sliced to the rough and was on the
green in three shots. MeCallum being
lust off and to the right in like num-
ber. His fourth shot, topped. ran nj
teen feet beyond the hole, and James
putted up to four feet. Here one OF
tbe breaks OF the game came in. Nc
Callum's putt slightly OF line at the the
start, curved in and dropped into tne
hole for a and James missed his short
one for a half.