Evening star., 1924-04-06


tive season less than a month away,
local linksmen may be expected to
swarm over the courses hereabout
datly from this time forward.
George Diegel, brother Of Leo Die
gel, the pro at .E, E,Piendship: nov qJy,ai is
has been appointed professional at
the East Potomac Park course, sue
ceedins Tom Ryan, who was major
domO there last year Diegel swings
much like his more famous brother
sna i1a,,r1 has s a W9iIEFoqndHd ganls: H9
Journeys this year. Ryan. by the
way, was in Washington last week
after a winter spent at Norfolk, Va.
VA new kind of grass. which dies in
the summer and comes up green and
fresh in the winter. has been discov-
cred by the Department of Agricul-
ture, and is being propagated at the
Arlington experiment tai farm for use
on golf courses. If it can be bred
TO athe yegetative method of planting
It will prove boon to golfers. for
the grass remains green and firm
Throughout the winter when bent and
fescue become brown and dead. DR..
J. IT. McClenahan, chairman of the
Greens committee of the Washington
GOlf, and Country Club, plans to ex-
pertinent with it at the Virginia
course.
Local golfers are looking forward
to the international match between
Arthur HaverS, British open cham
pion; James Ockenden, French open
champion and Fred Mcleod and Leo
Diegel, Washington professionally TO
be- played-a at Columbia on April %.
THE match will be at .36 holes.
Six events, four of which are for
members of the club only, comprise
the spring golf schedule of the Chevy
Chase. Club. The competitive season
opens at Chevy Chase on May z.
Departing from the usual custom
off playing the club title tourney in
the fall, Chevy Chase announces the
IIorstnann trophy-the club cham
pienship cup-for June and 6 at
seventytwo holes medal play. Wal
ter r. Tuckerman is the present
title holder. He won the Chevy Chase
title at the same time he annexed the
District championship last year.
The spring season opens with the
event for the. French high commits
sion cup for men. to be played at
handicap match play May z, s, 8 and
Ice Cards for qualification are to be
fled between April 1S and May 4,
both inclusive, with 80 to qualify.
The spring invitation tournament
is sthe next event. scheduled for May
14s 15 and 16, although if the golf
committee decides a two-day quail
fication round is necessary on account
OF the size of the field it will begin
on May 13.
Feminine golfers .of the club will
play in their first competition-that for
the French. high commission cup for
women-to be held May 1922, inclu-
sive. The Qualifying round will be on
May 10 with eighteen holes match
play to follow each day. The low six
teen net scorers will qualify.
On Memorial day, golfers of the club
VIII compete in the scheduled eighteen
hole match play against par event for
the Victor Kaufman trophy. The
Evening Star cup event, open to all
woman golfers in the District of CO.
lurnbia, will follow at thirty-six holes
medal play June 2 and 8. The low net
score for the two rounds will win.
IN the fall Chevy Chase will hold the
District Junior championship at thirty
six holes medal play ON September II,
ana two club events at match play
the competitions for the Liberty and
PRESIDENTS cups. The Siamese trophy
passed out of competition for all time
when Walter r. Tuckerman won it
for the third time two years ago, re-
moving one of. the leading events, of
the club year.
Extensive improvements in the way
of 9bunkering and trapping of green's
are planned for Chevy Chase within
a few months. Chairman Thomson
VI t3AC gun
Changes in the trapping of the
green's at the fourth. sixth, twelfth,
thirteenth and sixteenth holes are
manned. All are designed to bring
out the green more prominently by
scattering small traps about them.
At the sixth, thirteenth and, sixteenth
the back ends of the greens will be
raised several feet.
Ishn HI. Elapp, formev chairman of
y a r~lF Hs<, 1fxx.f& faoF -
Chase Club, now Is in Asia on a trip
around the world. He expects to be
back In Washington in May, prob
ably in time for the clubs spring
tournament
The ditch In front of the fourteenth
green at the Washington Golf and
Country Club has been rooted for a
distance of about fifty yards, making
an anbroken stretch of fsirway from