Evening star., 1920-05-16
CHEVY CHASE GOLF
DRAWS FINE FIELD
Many Topnotchers Entered
in Spring Tournament
Starting Thursday.
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that has ever participated in an ANA
teur golf tournament about the Dis
trict of Columbia, the annual spring
tournament of the Chevy Chase Club
will begin next Thursday morning.
Not only will the best players of the
District of Columbia compete. includ-
ing Marshall Whitlatch, the amateur
champion, but many players well
known in national golf have an
nounced their intention OF playing.
The two topliners will be =. CLARKE
corkran.- the middle Atlantic cham-
pion, and his brother. i. Warren
Corkran. a player of equal merit. both
of the Baltimore Country Club. These
two men are reported TO be playing
better golf than ever before and over
the long Chevy Chase course should
make the rest of the entrants step
lively to keep up with them. George
IS Lyon, the Canadian veteran, and
several other first-class Canadian golf
ers have entered the event. Their
golf also is d known quantity and it
will require fine play to take the
measure of any of the Canadian con-
tingent.
Whftlntch in Form Again.
OF the local players Marshall Whit
latch and Walter r. Tuckerman of
Chevy Chase appear to be playing the
best golf. Whitlatch seems to have
entirely recovered from muscular
trouble which bothered him last fall
and winter and is playing very well.
He has been around Chevy Chase sew
eral times during the past two weeks
in better than so. While Tuckerman
has hardly played enough golf to get
in first class condition. his game is
noted for it's comeback qualities. He
a he a ,rn1fpr 14yh c3 M
without sufficient practice and put
up a fine game. Just now he is play
ing good golf.
George P. lanes, Donald Wood
ward, Albert r. Mckenzie and sew
eral other fine players will repre-
sent the Columbia Country Club in
the event, while the Washington Golf
and Country Club will be represent
ed by Eddie Styles and George +.
Truett the club champion. Robert
ington Golf and Country Club tourney
week ago, expects to compete. He
will have to be watched, for he is
playing a much stronger game than
when he wan the Chevy Chase event
two years ago, and even in such
strong field as that of the present
year will have a fine chance.
Those who wish to compete are
urged to mail in their entries to the
golf committee, care the Chevy Chase
CluO, Defore O'Clock tomorrow even
ing. when the entries close.
The winner of the tournament will
receive replica of the Presidents
cup, presented to the club in 1907 by
former President Taft, and the run
ner-up will be given replica of the
trophy presented to the club by Vice
President Sherman, whose two sons
Tom and Sheriff.. have made such
fine record in golf. Prizes will be
presented to the winner and runner
up in each sixteen and to the winner
of the defeated eight in each sixteen
The handicap medal play event will
be played in conjunction with the
qualification round May 20, the maxi
mum handicap allowed being eighteen
strokes.
The Chevy Chase Club has announc-
ed two tournaments for club mem
bers only within the next month The
first will be played for the Victor Kauff-
mann cup, to be contested on May 81
at match play against par. Three
quarters of the club handicap will be
allowed each entrant.
The second event is the annual
competition for the French high COM
mission cup. Qualifying scores may
be turned in up to June 13. following
which the thirty-tWo players with
the lowest net scores will be paired
to compete at match play
The District Golf Association has
announced the dates for the annual
woman's championship Of the Dis
trict of Columbia The tourney will
Chevy Chase Club. May "a. %, &c, 81
and 20. The qualifying round will be
played May "a, and eighteen-hole
match play rounds each day through
the final round. The annual tourney
for The Evening Star cup for woman
goifers of the District will be held at
hlrkside October Z and 8.
Following strenuous month of
tournament play, in which two major
tournaments have been held, many of |
the best of the District players are
planning to compete in the Midedle
Atlantic championship to be held at |
the Country Club of Virginia at Rich
mond, Va June 3, and S. President
Mackay of the association has an
nounced that the course is in first
class condition and preparations have
been made to entertain a record field.
u. Clarke Corkran of the Baltimore !
Country Club won the event last year.
defeating Walter r. Tuckerman of |
Chevy Chase in the final round.
Out at the Washington Golf andI
Country Club play in the annual com
petition for the Moore cup is being
held. This event is handicap COM
petition open to all club members,
with one round to be played each |
week until four rounds have been fin |
ished. On May 81 a miniature tourna-
ment Will be held with four flights
Oh elght to qualify and in the after
noon match play against par event |
will be held.
Women Of the Chevy Chase Club
are competing in ringer contest |
this month.
Senatorial foursomes are proving
quite the thing at the Chevy Chase
Club these days. 1t appears that
party lines are completely dropped
and that the treaty has no place in
the minds of the senatorial golfers
when they go out on the links. Other
wise how could such a stanch demo-
crat as Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Ne
braska have played last Friday after
noon with such equally stanch re-
publicans as Davis Elkins of West
Virginia, Frederick Hale of Maine
and Frank r. Kellogg of Minnesota9