The Washington times., 1922-05-22

and Will conclude their play on fr
The Newspaper tournament Is
attaching a deal of attention due to
the fact that one hundred entries
are expected in the tournament.
Bill Brigham, president, will face
! the entire club at tonights meet.
ing at the National Press Club at
which time details of the tourna-
ment will be discussed.
The Automotive golfers have
bitten off a large portion. On Wed
nesday at the Baltimore Country
Club thirty-six holes will be played.
Thursday at Washington thirty-six
more will be played and on Friday
the same procedure will be followed
at Columbia.
II, on Friday night at o'clock,
any of the Automotive golfers are
alive, there will be a dinner at the
Columbia Country Club.
Lou Julian, captain OF the
team, heads an impressive array
of talent which includes Walter
= Guy, Sam LuttreIl, Harry Burr,
Gardner Orme, Bill Quigley, B.
B. McCready, Doc Davis, J. p.
Doyle, P. p. Maloney. c. II.
Warrington, Alec Hare, Irving
Walker and Warren Eynon.
The venture in golfdom Is ex-
pected to prove highly successful
from every standpoint.
Newspaper golfers are going at
the tournament Friday with a
double purpose. The affair will be
a handicap, of course, but the ten
low eross scorers will be selected
TO compete for Washington in a
newspaper event to be held on the
famous Engineers course on Long
Island later in June.
Many handsome prizes are being
put up for the scribes who expect
to return scores all the way from
the high .70's TO the low 1908.
While the golfing tournament has
taken a great deal of the interest, 1t
Is. announced that Mark Thistlewait
has corralled something more than
twenty tennis players and that a
singles and doubles tournament will
be held later in June at Dumbarton.
Columbia's spring tournament,
due to start on June ] Is expected
to be a banner event this year.
The early tournament Will have
put practically the entire field on
edge. The course Is reported In
prime shape and a record entry
list will probably be Forthcoming
rs was the case at Washington and
Chevy Chase.
It will be remembered that the
United States Golf Association re-
Gently barred the steel shaft but in
official circles 1t is understood that
this decision may be recohsidered.
Golf manufacturers admit that the
hickory supply is very low and grow
ing scarcer each year. They also
say that only a very few good hick-
ory shafts can be produced from
every batch of hickory cut. This, of
course, gives some golfers better
clubs than others. 1t also gives
every golfer a different quality club.
The new steel golf shafts, however,
provide every golfer with exactly
, the same quality clubs. This Acw
development gives the 100 and over
player lust as good clubs as the pro-
fessional or champion has rad.
Last Tuesday the Western Golf
Association at the Edgewater Golf
, Club held a field test of the new steel
shafted golf club. The experiments
were made by Bob Macdonald and
Allan Cow, Chicago professionals,
. and Chick Evans. former amateur
and open champion. Each player
drove six balls with steel shafted
clubs and six with hickory shafted
clubs.
The executive committee OF the
Western Golf Association on the fol-
lowing day announced that its in
vestigations and tests showed that
s,eel shafted golf clubs give no me-
chanical advantage to players and
their use would be permitted in
tournaments conducted by this as
ISOLATION.
II Is apparent that golf manu-.
facturers are not going TO rest
content with the steel shaft, even
though il is sanctioned. The new
est goIfing shaft, still in the
course OF experimentation, II Is un-
derstood, is the bamboo shaft with
hickory inserts.
In a recent Chevy Chase tourna-
ment one of the players had bag
full of the new clubs. Last year the
bamboo shaft made an appearance.
Experts declared II produced It
torsion which did not justify It's
use. Experiments with hickory IN
serts, longitudinal strips inserted In
the, bamboo, are said 10 produce eX'
ceptionally fine shafts.
The shortage Of hickory and the
extensive purchase of clubs by n
nation which is rapidly adopting Solf
as the national game is leading 10
centipued experiments, in golfins
equipment.