Evening star., 1924-11-16


Yesterdays heavy snow lay an inch
the match is scheduled for today,
OF the greens committee, was sang
still be played today-even though
The drainage OF the course OF the
Washington Golf and Country Club
IS exceptionally fine-in fact the Vir-
gtnia course dries off much faster
than any other course about Wash
ington and barring an additional
snowfall in the early hours today, the
hope was held out that by $50 O'CLOCK
this morning the course would De IN
playable shape.
With two Of the younger crop or
professional golfers, both of whom
already have made their mark in ma
tional golf, pitted against the anna
teur champion Of the District ana
the home club pro, much interest has
been aroused in the match, MADE
keener by the excellent showing or
Sarazen and Farrell in the tourna-
ment at the Princess Anne club, near
Norfolk. which ended yesterday.
Sarazen and Farrell, notwithstand-
ing thei- admitted skill and the fact
that tho pair admirably together,
have not been installed as prohibi-
tive favorites to win, for Roland
Mackenzie has played the course
twice in the past week, scoring -
and IS, while Thomson very seldom
is over rs.
The local club pro holds the course
record with a mark of 90. made last
August. and the three professionals
will shoot against this mark in the
match today, with a purse going to
the man who breaks 20. Under the
unfavorable conditions which are
sure to prevail today il the match is
played, 20 probably will not be made
by any of the four participants.
The exhibition affair is open to
members of all organized golf clubs
about Washington and to guests IN
vited by members of the Washington
Golf and Country Club. 1t Is not open
10 the general public. Luncheon will
be served at the clubhouse at noon.
The first round will start at $50
am. and the second round at 1880
pm. Fred u. Paxton, chairman OF
the golf committee Of the club, will
be in charge OF the affair.
Tom Moore and DR.. K. Z. Tilley,
who were scheduled to play today in
the final match for the championship
of the Indian Spring Golf Club, will
play during the coming week. Yes
match to be postponed.
Moore is the present holder of the
championship of the Congressional
Country Club. won a few weeks ago
with a 36-hoIe score Of 159. He Is a
former hoide" of the championships
of the Washington Golf and Country
Club and the Indian Spring Club. a.
d V Burr, jr., is the present Indian
Spring champion, but did not defend
his title this
Guy NJ. Standifer, former amateur
champion of the District. and Fred
Mcleod pro at Columbia, are the
only two local entrants in the best
ball tournament to be played at Pine
hurst, N c.. the middle of this week.
The Columbia pair won the event
three years ago.
A feature of the Fall golf tourna
Inent of the Washington Newspaper
Golf Club, TO be played tomorrow
over the course OF the Congressional
Country Club, will be a team match
between the news and editorial staffs
OF The Star and the Times. Chal-
lenges have been flung broadcast
during the Summer and will cul
inmate in action tomorrow. The
method of settling The links differ
cnces between the news staffs of the
two newspapers contemplates the
playing of team of six men by each
paper, with the aggregate scores to
count.
The tournament Will last all day
and a plate luncheon will be served at
noon. James D. Preston, secretary of
the club, Will serve a s major -domo of
the newspaper tournament, and Will
settle all arguments as to scores.
Much new bunkerfng done on the
last nine holes of the Chevy Chase
course promises to make scoring
harder there, when the competitive
season rolls around next year New
bunkers flank the fatrway at the
eleventh, the bunker at the twelfth
has been rearranged and new
bunker has been constructed between
tho fifteenth and sixteenth fairways.
How would you like to make a
hole in two, lose the hole to a one,
and by that margin lose the final
round OF golf tournament?
That is just what happened to y.
c. RaymonS of the Washington Golf
and Country Club last Summer at
the Lake George Country Club. Ray
mond reached the final of tourna-
Uent and was ptted against Richard
NJ. Montague of New York. They
came to the sixteenth hole a 165-
ward affair, all square. Raymond,
with the honor, laid his ball four feet
from the hole and Montague holed
his mtdiron tee shot.
Bob Barnett. the genital Chevy
Chase pro, comes to bat with tale
Off hard luck. .Rarnett was playing
in four-bali match at the Friend
ship Golf Club the other day with
A B. Thorn, Fred Mcleod and Mel
Shorey. They had a verbal agree
ment that In case a ball was lost
In the leaves covering the fairway
and rough, another ball could be
dropped and played without penalty.
Barnett lost his ball on one OF the
two shot holes dropped another and
holed his mashie shot for a two. AS
the foursome proceeded up the fair
way, Barnetts caddie yelled back.
Here's your ball" And instead of
getting a two on the hole, Barnett
went back, played the ball, and got
a par 4.
Barnett, by the way, IS one Of the
competitors in novel three-correred
event in which the other participants
are A. McCook Dunlop and c. Ash
mead Fuller, the Chevy Chase Club
champion. Each of the three has put
up a sum OF money to be given to
the first player making hole in
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