The Washington herald., 1918-04-07
Golf and Tennis Notes
BY FRANK H. YOUNG.

Bishop lasted until the second round
in the second sixteen. in which he
placed
At a recent meeting of the Suburban
Tennis League, all Of last years Of
ficers were reelected as follows:
President, ]. H. Holmead; vice presi-
dent. J. w. Carr. and secretary
treasurer. Cecil Dowd. = The league
WIN run as a seven-club circuit this
year, Petworth having had to with
draw. It's Withdrawal was made neces-
sary owing to, the fact that the site
on which its courts are located is
about to be used for building pur-
poses. This, and the fact that prac-
ticaIly all Of its best players who were
oni last years team are now In the
military service. proved to be too great
an obstacle to overcome. The order OF ,
matches which was followed last year
will be followed again this season ex-
cept that IN each case the home team
last year becomes the visiting team
this season. In other words, the same
schedule Is to be followed. but the
dates on which q club was at home
last year viii be its visiting date for
1913 The schedule commences on the
first Saturday on which government
employees get a half holiday, which
will probably be June Is. The schedule
adopted for the first half OF the sea-
son Is given below:
June 15-Holmead at Racquet, Stand
ards at Argyle. Princeton at Home
Club. ...
June n-Home Club at HoImead,
9acquet at Princeton, Argyle at
'uclid. -.....
June 2e-Princeton at Argyle. Euclid
Home Club, Standards at Racquet
July +Racquet at Euclid, Home
,ub at Standards, Argyle at Hol-
cad.
July s-Euclid at Holmead, Standards
at Princeton. Home Club at Argyle.
July 13-Argyle at Racquet, Holmead
at Standards, Princeton at Euclid.
July N-Princeton at Holmead,
Standards at Euclid, Racquet at Home
Club.
Tom Dempsey, one Of the prominent
young golfers of the Columbia Coun-
try Club, expects to leave Washington
in a few days for assignment to duty
at a lieutenant in the artillery.
Fred Mcleod. the popular pro" at
Columbia, returned to Washington
Sunday from a Southern trip. Fred
die" had very successful trip, finish
ing fourth in the open and South
championship event, being only three
strokes behind Hagen, the winner.
On several occasions debaters i'm
bued with the spirit of argument and
research have taken up the question
as to how much farther a golf ball
can be driven beyond a baseball
wallop. Although there are at hand
no official records of long flights in
either game measured to the ultimate |
inch and established as the last word |
In the case, yet We have one or two |
things to go on. For instance, Fred |
Merkle and Hans Wagner startled the |
populace on two occasions by driving |
a baseball over the left field fence in |
Pittsburgh This fence is 400 feet from !
the home plate and each drive landed 4
at least forty feet beyond the fence
making total carry OF about 40 feet.
Two years ago, Walter Johnson |
a drive over the score board |
in Cleveland, situated 400 feet from |
the home plate. This smash also car |
ried about 40 feet, so in the way of !
flight, not including roll, no ball play
er ever drove beyond $50 feet. A long |
driver in golf frequently carries from |
235 to 260 yards. In fact, Eddie |
Eynon, james Barnes, and one or two !
others have driven the seventeenth ,
gnsen at ColumbiaS from the tee. This
hole, which Is ON hill at least twen-
ty-five feet high. is 26O yards from the
tee. Jesse Guilford. christened the
New Hampshire Siege Gun" drove
n ball 312 yards once. This totals 9S6
feet or about twice as far as any ath-
lete has ever been able to send base T.
ball. There have been golf smashes
well above a thousand feet, but these /;
included the roll. which is too much |
a matter OF baked-out turf and wind |
to be used in an official way.
There will be no tennis events
scheduled at the Chevy Chase Club
this year according to Edward w.
Dom, jr., who is chairman of the
tennis committee. This. action, which
includes the closed as well as the open
event, has been decided upon because
Of the fact that every mmber of the
clubs tennis team Is now in active
service. and all but one is out
Of town. Moorhead, who IS the only
d
In the Ordnance Department, but he is
kept so busy that he has few, il any,
opportunities to play. The club has
very few boys and juniors, so that /
in the absence of its regular players !
L has few, II any others, to draw from |
in the way of material An effort will
be made to scare up a team of some
sort which will represent the club in
the Washington Tennis Association
and this will be the only COM -.
petitive tennis played this season at
Chevy Chase.
The green committee at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club is MAX
ing one or two improvements in the
course which 1t hopes to put into ef-
ect before its regular tournameu
dates. Practically a new tee will b
Duilt at the fifteenth, as the preseLs-
one will be greatly enlarged and i'm
proved. 1t is also planned that a new
No. tee will be built, the new one to
be larger and a few yards farther
back than the present one. About
sixty trees have been planted around
the various tees, which add con-
siderably to the scenic effects Of the !
course. Incidentally, it might be ,
that this course is in bet
ter shape than 1t has been In years
at this time OF the year. 1t has
gone through the winter in splendid |
shape and will be at its best for the
in early May.
The ideal golf weather Of last Sat
1rday and Sunday had its effect on
golfers and every one Of the local |
courses drew capacity crowds. The
weather Is 50 uncertain these days !
that followers Of the ancient Scotch
game realize that they have to take
advantage Of the few good days we
will have for the next couple of weeks