Evening star., 1922-04-23

WHO SNOW promise III the game.
There are scant half dozen who
play good golf but do not begin TO
show the game developed very early
by Evans. Jones, Gardner. Ouimet,
Guilford, Paul Hunter, Albert Seckel
and numbers of others who have
carved out for themselves enduring
names in the golf hall of fame.
Among those who show promise
but who at present do not show signs
Of attaining to extraordinary heights
are Emmons Smith and James F. Da-
Wis of Columbia; the son of Z. w.
LOTUS of Chevy Chase, a youngster
who has played that difficult course
in SO: Henry G. Davis of Chevy Chase,
Charles Mackall. De We're Burr and
Golf and Country Club. Although
these youngsters have been playing
golf for several years. with the pos
sible exception of young Burr, they
do not show the promise of ethe game
that made the Evans, Ouimet, Gardner
combination famous.
Many Stars "Arrive" Early.
When it is considered that Gardner
won the amateur championship of the
United States at the age of nineteen,
and that in the same tournament
Chick Evans, then eighteen years old,
was a semi-finalist. only succumbing
to the veteran II. Chandler Egan on
the final hole of their 36-hole semi
final match, it will be seen what
strides the Washington youngsters
must make to parallel their achieve
ments.
Max Mars;on. Reginald Lewis.
Fraser Hale. Francis Wright and
Perry Adair are few more of the
younger stars who built up a splen-
did game before they had left their
teens Jones also was a semi -finalist
at the ripe old age of fifteen and was
finalist at eighteen, losing the anna :
teur championship to S. Davidson
Heron. another youngster, at Oak
mont. in 1919.
1t is the lack of spirited play and
encouragement to enter tournaments
that prevents the younger golfers of
the capital from making better
showing. Steady tournament play
and the test of fire 1t usually entails
is the finest thing in the game to
bring out the stuff that is in the young
ster.
Finkenstaedt Quits Capital.
washington developed one young
player of promise in Robert l.. Fink
enstaedt, who is destined to go far ir
the game. But Finkenstaedt has left
the capital. and it appears will not
be back in the competitive game about
Washington for some time to come.
washington's nearest neighbor
Baltimore, has developed pair OF
stars in the Corkran brothers. one
Of whom, d. Clarke. already has
gone to the semi-final in the anna
teur championship and appears des--
tined to do better. If Baltimore, and
more particularly Chicago and New
York. can develop youngsters of
promise in the golfing world. why
cannot Washington do likewise?
Surely there is plenty of opportu-
nifty for play, and while it is an indi-
vidual problem, it is one which he
boys themselves can easily work out.
The public course in East Potomac
Park offers opportunity for those who
do not belong to private clubs to I'M
prove their game. The course is a
good one and requires shot making
of a high order.
MackalI Most Capable Lad.
Charles Mackall of the Washington
Golf and Country Club is the most
capable of the younger crop OF play
ers about the capital. Mackall has
negotiated his home course in II and
has an ideal temperament for the
game He should do better. although
he does not play in all the tourna-
ments about Washington. Three
years ago he went to the semi-final
in the Chevy Chase Clubs spring in
mant.