Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-04-22

Fred Mcleod. professional At the CO.
lumbia Country Club, shattered the
record for his homo course yesterday
when he negotiated the eighteen holes
in SO strokes. one better than his own
record, established last year. Playing
with Emmons 9. Smith. tr.. In . two
ball match. McLsod was out in IS and
back in 80 for his rseord-breaking
total. Even though he made this nns
score he might have done better had
he sunk three short puts. He was on
the edge Of both the fourth and nth
green's in two shots. but in both cases
missed two-foot puts, taking three
puts on the short sixteenth. He holed
a twelve-footer for , on the thir-
teenth and very nearly had q similar
score on the fifteenth. whore his nib
lick second shot hit the cup and Just
stayed out, after his tee shot had car
ried the hill and gone down into the
hollow. His pitch to tho seventeenth
green was only foot from tho cup.
Tho score follows:
Out .....3 50 s ) 4-36
In ..........4 64 2 4 3 4 3 %-33-ss
Smith had 80. Last Tuesday playing
with F.. L. Davis. the youngster was
around in IS. his best mark. Members
Of Columbia think he IL one OF tho
coming young golfers Of the District.
and undoubtedly he 10 playing hne
golf for one Of his years. Given .
little moro weight which will produce
added distance, he should be able to
hold his own in tho fastest Of local COM
pany. His iron shots are all patterned
on those Of Mcleod. and strikes hrmly.
with q small divot. enough to secure
an unwavering flight and stop the ball
and is perfectly ut home anywhere
from $50 yards away. down to tho edge
of the green.
Jack Burgess of the Chevy Chase
that Organisation last Thursday. was
around In II. Burgess has not entirely
recovered his putting eye. which has
been off for some time. but during
the past two weeks has been putting
quite we'll. De Sibour was hitting a
very long bail Thursday and was
around in SO.
william S. Reyburn of the Chevy
Chase Club. amateur champion OF the
rived in Washington from the south
and is playing again at Chevy Chase.
Burgess Of Chevy Chase was lately
the recipient of haif-dozen new
wooden clubs assigned to Jock Hutchi-
son, professional at the Glen View Club
Of Chicago. late of Allegheny. Pitts
burRh. Just before Hutchison left for
the south, shortly after the first OF
the year, he broke his favosite brassie
head, and sent the whole club to Edin-
burgh, Scotland. to have half-dosen
similar heads made and shafted. giving
orders that the shipment of new clubs
should be made to him at Charlotte.
8. c., where he expected to be at the
time they would be ready. Tho clubs
did not come to Charlotte. They did
not arrive at Asheville nor at Pine
hurst, at all Of which places Hutchinson
was playing only mediocre golf and
attributing It to the loss OF his ia
vorite wooden club model. At Column
bia the blond Scot was still without
his weapons. but was hitting a con-
sistently long ball.
Two days after he left for Pittsburgh
Jack Burgess of the Chevy Chase Club
received a consignment Of clubs to
Jock Hutchinson, Chevy Chase Club"
Tho implements had followed Hutchi-
son all around the southern golf cir
cult and had at last in desperation
been addressed to the Chevy Chase
Club, the addresser knowing that Bur-
CESS was friend of Hutchison.
Tho tees at Chevy Chase have been
resodded and, with little top-dressing,
will be in first-class shape for the invi-