Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1923-05-20

have involved an expenditure above
| surplus and current income OF $4,000.
! For these reasons. the letter adds,
there must be added to tie regular
| income of the club about $4,000 a
year.
The proposals were discussed and
| suggestion that special meeting
of the membership be held was ap
proved, with the result that the meet
ing has been called for June Is.
Col. Drains letter added that the
golf course in highly improved condi-
tion will be ready for use July l and
! that thereafter no great changes in
volving tearing up of the course will
be required, and that the house and
grounds, renovated, repaired, improved
and beartified, will be finished before
the end of June.
The new Beaver Dam Golf Club
course, located near Landover, Md,
Will be formally opened about June
20, it has been announced. A number
Of prominent Washington golfers are
to be invited to play over and inspect
the new course, which is sponsored
by group of Washington business
men.
Plans for the commencement OF work
on the new property of the Argyle
Country Club, near Four Corners. Md.
q few hundred yards from the Indian
Spring Club. were discussed at a
meeting of the board Friday evening,
1t was decided to Immediately draw
up plans FOR the course and club
house. and work will start shortly on
both projects.
Elimination of Dwight Partridge,
star golfer of the Chevy Chase Club.
in the draw for a place in the first
| for last place and Partridge was
drawn out and forced to play in the
second flight. has stirred UP some
discussion of the draw method of
aeciding ties versus the play-off
method. Allan Lard, a student of
the game and well known as a
golfer, believes the play-off method
OF deciding ties should be adhered to
without tn y, s fsii He insists that, the
! the ordinary player, but to the ex-
| pert, as Partridge admittedly is.
TO pack up his statement Lard says
the United States Golf Association
and other golf bodies always have
recognized the play-off as the funda-
| mentally fair way of deciding ties
At Brookline last year ave players
were In a tie for last place. inciud-
| ing Willie Hunter. who was one of
| those who won the right to play for
| the amateur championship.
Women golfers Of the Chevy Chase
Club will start play tomorrow for the
French high commission cup. The
tourney will start with an eighteen
hole qualification round. with the six
teen low net scores to qualify for the
| first match play round Tuesday. The
competitors will play Tuesday, We'd
I nesday, Thursday and Friday morn
| ings at handicap match play.
The schedule of matches fixed at a
meeting last Tuesday night for the
| 1nterclub team series this year prom
| fses another season of golfing interest
kept up by the matches between teams
| representing five clubs about Wash
| ington.
Columbia, Chevy Chase. Washing
| ton and Bannockburn played In a Sc
r1es last year, with Columbia the
| winner after q close contest with
| Chevy Chase. This year Indian
Spring will enter a team in the tour
| ney, and the matches should again
provide real golf.
Mrs. Thorne strayer, wife OF Col,
Strayer of the Washington Golf and
Country Club, is just at present play
Ing a fine brand OF golf. Mrs. Strayer,
with free swing. hits long ball,
and with perhaps a little more at
do well in the other events for women
this year She won the first invita-
| ton women's event at Indian Spring
last week, defeating Mrs. H. X. Corn
we'll of Columbia in the anal.
Local golfers, with the Columbia
tourney just a few days away, also
are looking forward to the middle
Atlantic championship, to be played at
| Chevy Chase June u. 10 and JIG. The
tourney usually attracts g Hns feld
from the seysptsen Ipsubeg clubs Of