Evening star., 1921-07-31

At Chevy Chase. for the present.
work is being confined largely to
construction of the new sixth and
seventh holes, where changes of a char
acter that will bring about improve
ment are being completed. Later on
several other changes of minor
character will be made in the Chevy
Chase course. The entire sixth hole
is being rearranged. SO as to make
1t a two-shotter, with the green To-
Gated to the right and south of the
old one.
The new seventh green is being
built into the face Of the hill east of
the old one and will be long and mar
row. The hole. will be played di-
agonally across hte old fairway.
New Course by Next Summer.
At the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club 1t Is expected the new course
will be put in use next summer. The
new sixteenth green is ready for seed
ing and trees have been cut down and
the fairway cleared for the new fif-
teenth. which will take in the old
thirteenth and fourteenth holes. The
fairways of the new fourth. hfth
sixth and seventh holes will be ready
next summer.
Out near Bethesda, Md, where the
Town and Country Club has bought
more than 1875 acres to build into
modern golf course. preparations are
under way for building course that
Is expected to be one of the best
about the capital. Work has already
begun on the course under the direc-
tion Of an arch tect from New York
and of Charles l.. Ryan, professional
of the club.
Senatorial golf mntches are .becom
ing quite the thing at the Washing
ton Cor and Country Club. where
many members of Congress have be-
come acquainted with the game of
golf. Yesterday afternoon Senators
Nicholson and Sheppard. were IN a
four ball match. and during the week
many members of Congress steal
away for an afternoon of golf.
Several lessons are said to have
been taught by the recent open cham
pionship at Columbia Chief among
them is the decision of the Profess
sional Golfers Association to press
the United States Golf Association to
limit the entries in some manner so
that 36-hole qualifying round may
be played.
The justice of this plea Is brought
to view by the fact that Robert Nc
Donald. pro at the Bob-o-Link Club
of Chicago. who won the metropolitan
open championship last week at ST.
waney. failed to qualify at Columbia.
Had Mcdonald been given another
eighteen holes to atone for his mis-
takes in eighteen holes he doubtless
would have qualified.
Differing rules In various sections
Of the country caused furore for
while at Columbia. in which Jesse p.
Guilford. the Massachusetts amateur
champion. was involved. Guilford put
a ball out of bounds at the fifth hole,
teed another and played the hole.
penalizing himselfe only loss of dis
tance. The rule was called to his at
tention by his partner and he was
penalized another stroke when return
ing to the clubhouse.
Only through the leniency of the
u. S. G. A. executive committee was
Jim Barnes. the winner of the open
championship. allowed to play
through. The scorer who kept his
card on Thursday afternoon, gave him
on the fourteenth hole for "a.
when he should have had ) for Is.
Barnes merely glanced over the card
and give it his o. K. when he should
have inspected it carefully. The fault
was Barnes. as the rule regarding
scorers plainly says the player must
attest the card before it is turned in.
In this case the committee added the
extra stroke and the matter was
dropped.
TWO eSfnt1s ringer
and a match play tourna ment. both
to be held over the public course in
East Potomac Park, have been an
nounced by the War Department Golf
Club.
In the ringe- tournament COM
peti'ors will turn. in score for
eighteen holes on course a or B and
at any time during August or Sep
tembe~ any complete round of nine
holes in which the player lowers his
best score on any hole. the score
may be turned in to the Office at the
clubhouse and credited as ringer.
All scores must be attested by another
player Prizes for first. second. third
and fourth places will be awarded
Qualification for the match play
event will be full round of eighteen
holes between August 16 and 80. in
elusive, The player must announce
that he, ,is playing his qualifying
round and the score, properly at
tested. must be turned in at the club