Evening star., 1917-09-30

The Columbia Country Clubs annual
ran tournament will have the attention
q local golfers. this week. This event,
the last and one of the most delightful
of the year, finds practically all players
not influenced by wars demands look
ing forward to Thursday, the day of the
qualification round. The out-of-town
delegation this year in all probability
will not be a large one. B. Warren
Corkran. last years winner, Is at Annis-
ton, Ala, with Maryland field artil-
lery battery, his brother Clarke being a
mem bers of the same organization. 1t Is
belfeVed, however, that H. Lennox Bond,
Sd; George Small, s. S. Symington, Tom
Sasscer and several other of the best
players of Baltimore will play, as well
as the Worthington brothers from
Shawnee. The greens committee desires
to extend a cordial invitation to all out
of-town golfers now in the city to play
in the event. Entries close Tuesday
evening at pm
Albert Mckenzie of the Columbia
Country Club drove the first green at
that course one day last week from the
front tee. a distance in the neighhor-
hood Of 500 yards. Mckenzie is playing
one of the best games of the men of Co
lumbia. being consistently around the
so mark and frequently below it.
Walter s. Harlan, chairman of the
greens committee of the Columbia
Country Club, believes he has found the
solution of the trouble which attacks
local greens every fall about this time.
The greens are covered with spots of
upturned soil carried to the surface by
a grub worm. which works from below.
Friday afternoon three golfers on the
eighteenth green at that course We're
surprised to see wasp of the yellow
back type burrow down into the hole
made by a worm and drag out its oc-
cupant. singing him to death after
having gotten him out of the hole, Exit
Teddy Roosevelt as a nature fakir and
accord the palm to greens chairmen, but
the whole incident was watched by
three people and corroborated by the
testimony of experts of the Department
OF Agriculture. who state that there are
such wasps, which kill grub worms. Too
bad there are not more of them. for the
putting surface of good green is
ruined in the course of few days by
the actions of the grub worms.
There is apt to be scarcity of good
caddies at the Columbia tournament
this week, due to the fact that many of
the boys have found other more lucra-
tive jobs. This, with the fact that how
ever much they dislike it they are made
to go to school, may cause a curtailment
OF the NUMBER or CLUB toters. The cad
die masters of the other clubs about the
city have agreed to do their best to
remedy the situation. however. by
sending to Columbia a number of their
best boys
Harry Kaufman of the Town and
Country Club and j. r. De Farges and
Profe ssional David Burgess of the Ban
nockburn Golf Club were the guests of
Edward b. Eynon, jr.. of the Columbia
Country Club last Friday afternoon. Ey
non was the low scorer of the quartet
with rs, Burgess being 10.
Jack Burgess. pro at the Chevy Chase
Club. tied his own course record last
Thursday afternoon. getting around in
73. This card included a pair of skies.
made on the sixth and fifteenth holes.
and Is probably the best round any one
has ever had over the remodeled Chevy
Chase course. Burgess holed a full
mashie shot for 2 on the first hole at
Chevy Chase last Tuesday playing