Evening star., 1919-03-09
NOTES OF GOLF AND GOLFERS.

The movement to push the public
course now under construction in
lower Potomac Park is gathering
impetus Prominent golfers of the
National Capital and the officials of
the local golf bodies largely cen
tered here, the Middle Atlantic Golf
Association and the District Golf AS
sociation, have all expressed their
approval of the plan for providing
Washington with a first-class eighteen
hole public golf course.
Concrete action has been taken by
the District association. DR.. William
C. Barr, the new secretary of the as
sooia ton, has addressed letters to the
District Commissioners and to Col.
y,s-t4Superintendent of public
buildings and grounds, urging speedy
presumption of the building of the
course. deferred from the spring of
1917. Walter ]. Travis and Donald
RossC were engaged to lay out the
course at that time, and, following
"OIt their plans, green's were built
and the fairways lined out. The
green's now are in good shape and
have not been used for other pur-
poses Travis is expected to be in
Washington on other work within
the next two months and probably
will confer with Col. Ridley as to
plans while here.
atoday on the regular green at the
..elub for the first time since last
winter The regular greens are being
dressed down in readiness for the sea-
sons play and temporary greens are
snow being used. The greens are in
process of seeding and being top
dressed.
- Jack" Burgess shot one of the best
scores of the spring season in a
match last week over the Chevy Chase
course, in which he was partnered by
M Tyson Ellicott, the Baltimore
Country Clubs jovial ex-champion
against Alex Campbell. pro, and John
l. F'rick of the Baltimore club. Bur-
CESS was around in ~ against Camp
BELLS "A. The score, of course, was made
under winter rules, but even at that
the roughness Of the greens proba bly,
more than offset the advantage gained
by teeing up through the fair greens
sr Lieut. Donald Woodward. U. S. A.
who gained his shoulder bars in the
training camp at Fort Myer in the fall
of 1917 and was sent to France as an
4artillery officer. is today back in
Washington. Woodward saw some OF
the severest fighting of the war and
was in action continuously for several
last Wednesday.
-G At the twelfth hole at the Washing
ron Golf and Country Club, near the
ditch which friuges the hole on the
Jeff, stands tall cedar trea with a
''plenitude of limbs and branches
Frank Greenawalt's hall hit last Sun
day from the tee was seen to 60 into
the tree and search below the tree
and in the ditch failed to disclose the
ball The sphere was finally located
-eHsconced high up in crotch in the
Irce and was dislodged with the aid OF
.etones. The question now is, whether
the ball under winter rules, could be
placed a clubs length, not nearer the
b ole, or whether, being in a hazard, as
All trees are supposed to be. it must
have been played from where it lay
Aessrs. Varela and Greenawalt, who
were partnered on the occasion. claim
fhat the ball could be played from
where il dropped, and it was so done.
Miss Margaret Noes and Jack Bur.
t1Eess of the Chevy Chase Club lost tc
:. Snss Breckenridge of the Chevy Chase
Club and Fred Mcleod, pro- at the
/; columbia Country Club, in a mattel
!pver the Washington Golf and Country
t41ub course Friday morning. Mcleod
Bas around in 72 and Burgess in "a
: Dion Btrney. Late an officer in Uncle
1ana- -Arm ia back IN ciEiliar