Evening star., 1918-05-26
NOTES OF GOLF AND GOLFERS.

will qualify for the match play
rounds.
A mixed foursome tombstone"
tournament will be held at the Chevy
Chase Club Wednesday. May 20. Six
pairs are already entered.
Robert Finkenstaedt, winner of tho
spring tournament of the Chevy
Chase Club. has been playing fine
golf over his homo course-that OF
the Columbia Country Club. In three
successive rounds last week Finken-
staedt was around his course in II,
7S and rs. The II score included an
on the fifteenth hole.
Leod Of the Columbia Country Club
defeated Jack Burgess and Charles B.
Field Of the Chevy Chase Club. 2 and
!. In match at Columbia last Mon
day.
Country Club had a on the second
hole at that course last Tuesday. He
holed a mashie shot from the rough
grass short Of the ditch.
Lieut.. D. Bradley Gish, United states
Flying Corps. Of the Columbia Coun-
try Club was at the club last Sunday
and played a round Of the course.
Gish Is said to have made a reputa-
tfon for himself as one of the leading
aviation instructors in the Army and
has gained a name for fearlessness in
the air.
Lieut.. Donald Woodward and
Thomas c. Dempsey. two Of the lead
ing players of the Columbia Country
Club, have left for France. Wood
ward 10 the son Of the late Samuel
w Woodward hiS To-
sion at the second officers training
camp at Fort Myer He was as
signed to the light artillery at Camp
Lee. Dempsey has been in the Army
only little more than a month. and
is q member Of an engineer regiment.
Charles H. orme. anothe. of the
former active golfers of the Colum-
bfa Country Club. now in the Army.
will arrive home today for short
visit.
The par Of the Columbia Country
Club course has been changed from
seventy-four to seventy. This has
been done, according to the chair
man of the green's committee. in
order to equalize the course and
on which the par has been changed
from five to four are the fifth. sixth.
tenth and eleventh. It has been felt
for some time that. with the new
lively balls and the hardening Of
the course In the summer. par was
these holes. and that the proper
procedure was to reduce the par.
It is planned to make June -. the
day on which Charles Evans: 5r-.
national open and amateur cham.
against Walter Hagen and Jim
Barnes at the Columbia Country
Club. a field day at the club. The
exhibition will be given under the
auspices Of the Woodley Park Chap.
ter of the American Red Cross. and
ali money raised will be turned over
to that chapter. A musical program.
including three operatic stars and
soldier hand. will be one OF the fea-
lures of the day. The golf match
will be at thirty-sfx holes. During
the noon interval music by singers
ana the band will be presented. and:
according to present plans. one OF
the famous woman golfers, now in
Washington. will be asked to drive
balls from the first tee AGAINST mem
bers of the club. each member
wagering that his shot will be longer
than that Of the woman golfer The
entire amount raised from this will
be turned over to the Red Cross. The
balls used by the golfers in the
match. which should be one OF the ne
best ever played IN tnis Souh''J' ""A
also be aucttoned of.
Champion Evans has written Wal
ter 8. Harlan Of Co1umbfa that he
cannot come here a day In advance.
hut viii be here bright and early
saturday morning. While in Wash
ington he will stay with Judge John
Barton Payne 1t has been dehniteiy
decided that the match in which h1rs,
Gavin was to have played AGAINST
Evans has been cancelled. This is
done because 1t is felt that to de-
priye the members of Columbia of the
use Of the course for two successive
days is too much. An invitation to
witness the open and amateur golf
champion of the United states and
three Of the greatest professional
players in the country is extended to
every one.