Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-07-06
NOTES OF GOLF AND GOLFERS

With two golf tournaments of ma
jor Importance held at the Columbia
Country Club within the past eight
days. Washington golfers now will
have no more interclub tournament
play in this section until fall when
the annual championship of the Dis
trict is TO be held. The championship
will be held at the Chevy Chase Club
and will be at 20 holes medal play for
the title now held by Edward B. Ely
non. jr.. won by him at Columbia in
1917.
Play in the professional tourna-
ment at Columbia last week, which
decided the three men who Will be
sent from this section to the finals OF
the Professional Golfers Association
tourney afforded interesting side
lights on the play Of the professionals
as compared with that of the anna
teurs who competed in the middle
Atlantic championship. Although the
course was slower during the anna
slower, Fred McLeod's two scores of
20 and II each being much lower
than any scores made by the ANA
teurs Clarke Corkran against Dom
aid woodward in the second round of
the tourney had a pair of 37s for
card OF "a. which was the lowest
score turned in during the tourney,
while cards of ISL were just outside
the qualifying score in the pro event.
Marshall Whitlatch. veteran of the
game from New York. now with the
Chevy Chase Club, had a score of IS
in the final of the defeated eight in
the second sixteen against Lynn
A better match than that between
Fred Mcleod and Emmett French of
York Wednesday afternoon could
hardly have been desired. French
made one slip that cost him two shots
and that was enough to beat him, for
Mcleod began really hitting his shots
on the last nine and could not be
stopped.
A word should be said here about
the greatly improved putting of Nc
Leod. In other days a mediocre put
ter and one prone to lapse on the
short three-footers, Mcleod holed a
six-footer to win the seventh in 3.
hoIed another twenty-footer to halve
the eighth and after slicing his drive
at the fifteenth. got well out Of a
trap and holed a twelve-footer for the
half Had Mcleod lost this hole by a
stroke as the match finished he and
French would have tied for firstt
place. That putt meant a difference
OF SIS to the Columbia man French's
lapse came on the tenth. where he
hooked his mashie second to a trap.
pitched over the green and took three
more to get down. This, as II turned
out. cost him the match. One surprise
of the event was the failure of will
fred Reid OF Wilmington to get in the
first three. He was tied with Harry
Hampton of Richmond and beaten out
by one shot by Douglas Edgar of At
Ianta- holder of the French pro cham
pionship.
One OF the features OF an eventful
golfng week about the District has
been the fine game shot over the
course Of the Chevy Chase Club by
John Martin. the one-arned captain
of the Hill School golf team Martin
last Monday was around the Chevy
Chase course in rs. out in Al and
back IN 81. His card on the last nine
included a z on the fourteenth hole
Martin appears to play as strong a
game as do Martucci and a famous
French one armed golfer. The only
difficulty with these one-armed play
erS appears to be their inability to re-
Acover effectively from trouble, but
otherwise they play as strong a game
Vas their moro fortunate brethren.
Tho club championship of the Wash
gngton Golf and Country Club will be-
gin this week with the first rouno in
the competition. Players in the tour
nAment have been paired according to
their club handicapa, no qualification