Evening star., 1918-01-20
NOTES OF GOLF AND GOLFERS.

A feeling on the part of local golfers
that the cold spell which has tied up all
play on the courses about Washington
is due to break was evinced Thursday
and Friday of last week. when few
hardy souls ventured out to three of the
local courses and took a try at hitting
the ball over the ice-covered links
Try is a good word, for with the ice
abounding on the courses efforts to hit
the ball usually brought failure.
The Augusta" crowd Of the Columbia
Country Club is looking forward to an
other trip to the south this spring. prob
ably in February, but the members still
Is reported that accommodations in Au-
gusta cannot be had. For this reason it
is likely they will go farther south to
play golf this year. Edward B. Eynon,
1r.. District amateur champion. prob
ably will not accompany the party this
year, as at present he is very much
occupied with his duties as one of the
workers under John L. Weaver, District
fuel administrator. The fuel administra-
ton appears to be composed solely of
and w. J. Eynon. in addition to E. B.
Eynon. jr. and John L. Weaver are
handling the administrative end of the
local fuel situation.
Announcement was made a month ago
that the local golf clubs are complying
with the letter of the fuel administra-
tons requests to save coal by cutting
down their consumption of fuel and
light. Columbia is getting along with
less heat than in former winters, Chevy
Chase is taking steps to save coal and
out at the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club. r. P; Hawes, chairman of
the house committee, announces that the
entire upper floors of the clubhouse
have been shut Off from heat and the
regular semi-monthly dances given by
the club have been cancelled to save
coal. Wood is being burned in open
1replaces in some Of the clubs
The ticket the Western Golf Associa-
tion elected last night at the annual
meeting in Chicago embraces the names
of all members of last years admins
tration, with the exception of Trustin
B. Boyd of st. Louis, whose place was
taken by Charles w. German of Kan
sas City. No action similar to that TAX
en- at last years meeting. when the
abolition of the stymie by the western
association aroused a storm of COM
ment and feeling Of dissatisfaction in
some quarter. was recorded at last
nights meeting. Representative east
ern golfers have felt that the action of
the western association in abolishing
the stymie was q violation of the con-
fidence reposed in golf in the United
States by St. Andrews. In fact the ST.
Andrews Club at session of it's direc-
tors shortly after the outbreak OF war
asked the United States Golf Asso-
citation to take no drastic action on leg
islative subjects having to do with
rules until after the war. It is UNDER
stood that this was agreed to by the
U. S. G. A. Sentiment almost unques-
tionably favors the abolition of the
stymie, but 1t has been felt that the
action of the western association was
untimely.
Golf championships in the District Of
Columbia probably will not be held
this year. Action on the matter will
the District of Columbia Golf Associa-
ton, to- be held some time in March.
Last year the association discontinued
it's championship tournament, but did
not forbid the holding of amateur tour
naments in which no title changed
hands. Talks with officials of the as
sociation and with prominent golfers
of the District lead to the belief that
sentiment is almost wholly in favor of
holding the regular tournaments about
Washington, minus the championship
element. A feeling has been growing
throughout the country that the entire
elimination of tournaments during the
war would be a bad move, as golf is
| there are few games like golf for the
man who is tied up in an office the
greater part of the time.
Changes in the local courses, be-
gun last fall, and continued whenever
weather permits, indicate that at least
three of them will be heightened and
made harder before the new season
rolls around. New tees have been built
for several Of the holes at the Chevy
ho w WI ho lot
back will make the course one of the
longest in the country and the longest
between Philadelphia and the south.
! The south side Of the fourteenth green
| a view to decreasing the water flow on
| that side and allowing the green to
hold water
| A new green is being built for the
sixth hole at the Columbia Country
Club after the Taylor pattern, which
| proved so popular after having been
| tried as an experiment on the fifth hole
| The new green when completed will
| lengthen the hole about forty yards.
besides making necessary a much more
| accurate shot to the hole than the one
! which may now find the green. In the
| course of last years fall tournament at
| Columbia one competitor on two occa-
sions after good tee shot had the
second shot. On one occasion he got
| his par 4 and the other time ran down
! a ten-foot putt for 8. This win not
be possible with the new green, for
pot traps on either side and banked
sides will make imperative a very ac-
| curate shot to the hole to get a chance
| for a par 4.
| The most extensive changes in any
of the local courses are being planned
at the Washington Golf and Country
Club. Negotiations now are under
way for the acquiring by the club of
| plot Of ground bounding one of the
holes on the first nine, which will
lengthen the course to one Of standard
pionship distance.
RAnnockbufn, with n sum of money