Evening star., 1923-12-02


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Members of the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association who have played in
sufficient events in this organization
and other tournaments to form q
basis for record are to be handicapped
by the association. The organization.
comprising nearly a score of clubs in
the District of Columbia. Maryland.
Virginia and Delaware. plans to ar
range handicap list similar to those
of other sectional associations and
to put it's golfers on a permanent
matches were not held this year the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association had
one of It's most Successful seasons.
Professional and amateur golfers
of Washington hope to get together
this week in a scheduled team match,
postponed several times because of
inability to muster representative
squads. The match will be played at
the Columbia Country Club. with a
kenzie will captain the amateur
team, while Fred Mcleod will lead
the professionals. The amateur team
will be made up almost wholly of
Columbia members. while the pros
will be selected from paid players
attached to the various clubs.
Par of 20 on the course of the
Washington Golf and Country Club
never has been equaled, and, judged
by scores turned in by leading golfers
who have played it. the par is one
of the hardest about the Capital City.
The amateur record for the course
stands at "a, made by Walter +.
Tuckerman of Chevy Chase in a team
match last fall, while the professional
record is 13. made by Dave, Thomson,
the home club pro.
The first nine at Washington Is the
most difficult to negotiate in par
figures for there is not hole that
does not demand straight and accu-
rate golf. The greens are not large
and are excellently trapped and
there Is little opportunity to make up
for missed shot. The second nine
is easier to score on. but here again
there are at least two holes where
hall off the line may mean any
thing from a three to a ten.
The fifteenth and seventeenth
holes are two of the hardest to play
in par anywhere about Washington
The fifteenth in particular is a terror
on account of the carry needed on
second shot. The eighteenth also de-
mands two of the finest of shots to
get four. Although there are two
par three holes on the first nine,
there is also one par five holes, while
there Is but one par three hole on
| the second nine.
even a partially missed shot to the
extreme (some claim too severely
and offers little opportunity to pick
up a stroke lost. 1t will be interest
ing to note the scores made by Wash
ington's leading amateurs in the
tournament to be held at the Virginia
course next spring.
Construction work is going ahead
on the new first green at the Column
bia Country Club and the expectation
now is that the turf will be laid
within two weeks.
boston, according to A. Linde Fow-
ler of the Hub. has the ideal caddie--
a bag toter who, never moves while
the player is making a stroke. who
never talks and never 1ags3 This ideal
caddie is police dog, the property
of Boston official, who plays at VOL
laston and who has a record for find
ing lost balls that is astounding. The
dog does everything the human cad
die should do, even to removing the
pin on the putting green. In addition
he don't grumble nor demand more
than a dollar round, but he does
relish bone as pay for his work.
No one can say during golf tanning
bees this winter that Jess Sweetser
Of New York, the 1922 amateur cham
pion, laid back on his laurels. for
Jess played in practically every tour
nament he found time to enter. dess
failed in several of them, he won oth-