Evening star., 1924-11-09

Next sunday an equally attractive
card will~be offered by washington
Golf and Country Club. with one
member of the same cast that appears
at Congressional today in the per-
son of Sarazen. Supporting him will
be his buddy of years standing
Johnny Farrell of Quaker Ridge.
Equally interesting rs the Congress
sional match from the standpoint of
local interest is the match next sun
day at Washington, for Roland Mac
Kenzie, f7-year-old District amateur
champion, will pair with Dave Thorn
son, pro. at Washington, against the
famous New York duo.
Play Tor Worthy Cause.
Today's match for the benefit of
q local. organization, which does eX-
traordinarily) fine work in Wa hing
ton, should receive the support of
every golfer about the city. Not only
is a great match promised, with three
former open champions appearing,
but in addition, the opportunity is
offered to help worthy organiza-
tion-the Instructive Visiting Nurses
Society-whose members 80 into any
home in the city on call for small
fee and give nursing attention to
the sick. Much of their work is on
charity cases, and for this reason a
drive is now in progress for funds.
Extensive preparations have been
made for the Congressional match.
Boy Scouts will act as gallerymen,
under the direction of a committee
headed by Oscar Coolican, and in
cluding Lieut.. Col c. o. Sheriff. and
DR.. Bruce l. Taylor. A luncheon
will be served at the noon interval
for 81 per plate. Transportation will
be afforded from the end of the Cabin
John car line at intervals.
The general public is invited to
witness the match, help a worthy
cause and see Washington's newest
and largest country club and course.
The golf committee Of Washington
Golf and Country Club, augmented for
the occasion, has practically COM
pleted its plans for the Sarazen-Far-
reIl VS.. MacKenzie-T exhibit
tion next Sunday The course of the
club Is being groomed for the match
and today is in splendid condition
A special purse will be put up for the
man who breaks 20 over the course,
a mark which has only been equaled
once and never broken.
Sarazen and Farrell will not have
an easy match of it, for Roland Mac
Kenzie is today the outstanding anna
teur about Washington, and is just
less to say, Dave Thomson, the local
pro- knows every roll and contour of
the ground and as the critics say, is
on speaking terms with every blade
of grass at his own club. Sarazen
and Farrell will not have things al
together their own way at Wash
tngton.
DR.. James T. McCIennh4n, chairman
hi
ton Golf and Country Club, finished
the first round of the club champion
ship 36-hole final match yesterday, l
up on w. p McCalium. McClenahan,
playing a fine match play game,
scored an 80 against a a for Mccall
lum. Two rs on McClenahan's card
spoiled his medal play. The final Is
holes of the match were to be played
this morning.
A hnIf-dOzen members of Washing
ton Golf and Country Club have sent
in their names to the chairman OF
the golf committee to be placed on a
bronze plaque in the clubhouse as
members of the hole-in-one club. The
golf committee proposes to perpetu-
ate the hole in-one record at the CLUB.
Two important changes are being
made in the course of Co1um bia
Country Club, both affecting holes
which played a great part in the
1921 open championship. At the short
second hole. where Jim Barnes. the
winner of the 1921 event, holed
niblick shot for a 2, the green has
been extended east and brought right
down to the bank of the ditch, while
the bunkers at the right of the fifth
hole have been rearranged. A row
of trees will be planted back of the
ninth green and the tenth tee to pro-
tect players on those holes.
The District open golf champion
ship, scheduled for next Tuesday and
Wednesday, is off. BY mutual con-
sent the professionals about Wash
ington have Cancelled the tournament,
which was to have been held at the
Indian Spring Golf Club November IL
and H. The course of the Indian
Spring Club is now undergoing extens
sive repairs, and will not be in proper
shape for the holding of champion
ship. although the course construc-
tion work has nothing to do with the
decision to call off the tournament.
Funds available for prizes are not
large enough to make the tourna
ment attractive to the New York
group of professionals. and the local
pros have decided not to hold an
event among themselves.
Semf-nnaI rounds in the Indian
Spring Club championship will be
played today with Tom Moore play
ing S. r. Speelman in the upper
bracket, while DR.. j.. r. De Farges
plays DIR. f. R. Tilley in the lower
half. Moore, who won the champion
ship of the Congressional Country
Club two weeks ago, is favored to
win the Indian Spring title. He is
president of the Indian Spring Golf
Club and its outstanding player,
far-nung challenge. issued by the
Washington Times, alluding to the
merits of members of it's reportorial
and editorial staff as golfers, has
been accepted by B. M. McKelway,
city editor. for the staff of The Star.
Avery C. ManlSs, managing editor of
the Times, has put up trophy to be
played for pyt teams representing the
two newspapers as one of the side
lights of the annual newspaper Fall
golf froifc. The date is November II,
q week from tomorrow, and the occa-
sion the leading of number of fnno-
cent newspaper men to their fates
around the long and difficult course
Of the Congressional Club.
Courteous amenities have passed
between the two principals in the
local newspaper golf war. referring
to the golfing abilities of members of
the two STATS. and apparently every
thing Is all set for the affair, with
only 0urder barred. Anything up to
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