Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-03-19
Notes of Golf and Golfers

GoR locally during the last week took
on moro and more the attitude of early
spring days The two or three really
warm days during the past week at
forded even the shirt-sleeve golfers the
chance to get out on the course. At
Columbia the course looked almost as
the early days of spring are upon US,
with probably sixty or seventy players
out on Tuesday and Friday. Walter
Hagen of Rochester passed through the
city in company with Wilfred Reid OF
Wilmin gton. Thursday. Hagen played
at Columbia with Albert r Mckenzie
and was around In 76. Reid did not
play during his stay here Another
golfer of note who was in Washington
last week was Lieut. Donald Edwards
OF Chicago: famous golfer OF that
years ago which has performed SO wen
in all tournaments Edwards played al
Columbia with party of Columbia
players and while he. did not score low,
he showed flashes of his oid-time
brilliance In the western amateur
championship of 1877 Francis ouinet.
the winner, defeated Don Edwards in
the semi final and Kenneth Edwards in
the final and said of both brothers that
if the breaks had been even little
their way new western amateur
champion might have been crowned.
owen johnson the novelist, author of
The Varmint'' and other college
stories. has been playing az Columbia
every fine day for the past two weeks.
fSridav afternoon Walter r. Tuckerman
of the Chevy Chase club was his guest
at Columbia.
With most of the golfers busy in war
work. perhaps more than any of the
local clubs, the course of the Chevy
Chase club during the past week did
not share attendance honors with that
of Columbia. Not that Chevy Chase
was not played over, for fully forty
players were out Friday afternoon, but
the absence of the leading golfers of
the club is more noticeable at Chevy
Chase than al Columbia. AShmeade
Fuller and Donald cassels are in the
Army and many other golfng members
of the club are so busy with war bust
ness that they have not time for the
game these days.
Albert r Mckenzie of the Columbia
Country Club has left for the south.
Young trees have been planted about
all the tees at the Columbia Country
Club. and five or six years from now
all the tees will he beautifully shaded.
The tree which juts into the line of
play in front of the third tee at Column
hia has been removed. leaving the line
of play to the green practically
straight, and the big willow tree be-
tween Inc eleventh anu IHtllln IGIT-
ways has also been cut down.
Howard Beckett. the club professional
was around the course of the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club in ~ last
Sunday. playing with E. c. stiles OF
Philadelphia. and Richard T. Halves
Stiles. who is one of the best players
of the Quaker city and will probably
be located here permanently, was
around in IS with an the par L.
seventh hole.
Why is it that certain cities have
periodical spells when they produce
crowd of young golfers OF promise?
Some large cities, notably Philadelphia
have gone along for years without the
development of any young talent which
shows evidence of growing into cham
pionship material. Eight or ten years
ago Chicago had crowd of young
players who have upheld the theories
of their admirers by being prominent
contenders at all amateur cham pion-
ships and sometimes winners. Where
has been found the equal of II. Chand-
Ter Egan. Robert A. Gardner. Albert
Seckel, Paul Hunter. the Edwards bro
Tiers Robert Hunter, Charles Evans,
5r; Warren K Wood and others who
have made their way in national golf
circlese Surely not in New York city.
The metropolis has always had two or
three top-lners, men who have been
capable of, and have won champion
ships, but has not had large array of
high-grade performers. Within the
past four years several youngsters have
made their way to the front in New
York. notably:
Phil Carter. Reggie Lewis. Frank
Dyer. Roy Webb and others, but none
3 of them has won either the Metropoli-
tan or the New Jersey championship,