Evening star., 1924-02-10

knowledge OF the game to others. II
of green keeping, although he proba
this factor at Burning Tree.
The Burning Tree club course is
coming along in good shape. and
probably will be opened in the spring.
Weston High Schools golf team,
which doubtless is the leading
schotasti. team about Washington
and probably one of the best in prep
schools in the east, is planning TO
go to the interScholastic tournament
to be played at a New York course
next spring. Roland r. Mackenzie
of Columbia, the star of the Western
team, has written to the United States
Golf Association asking for inferma-
tion regarding the event and wheth er
there is d team tournament.
Western has fine team, composed
of young Mackenzie. Karl T.. Keller
man. jr.: Reginald Lotus and Page
Hufty. There also are several other
tine players. In Informal team
matches played ut Columbia last
spring the Western lads proved their
class by winning handily over the
golfers from other schools
Albert n. Mackenzie. the Middle
ed wrist as the result of what he
termed well hit shot last week.
Mackenzie was playing over g
/ frozen course, and hit "A ball with the
wooden club. The injury has not
stopped him from playing.
"Reds" Bannagau and Roland Mac
Kenzie. Columbia's kid pair, still are
scoring victories over local amateur
and pro combinations. No wonder.
for both have been consistently under
so over the Columbia course. Both
got d - recently.
Roland's score was made chiefly by
To- virtue of a brilliant out nine of "a
over the hardest half of the Columbia
course. Mel Shorey and y. 3. Thorn
were the victims on one occasion.
Bannagan is using a more upright
swing off the tee, which, he claims.
has Steadied his game and has not
cut down any of his great distance.
Robinson White, n Columbia golfer
who plays from the port side. left
Washington Friday night for few
weeks golf in Miami, Fla.
Organization OF the public links
golfers OF Washington. talked of for
become 4 reality. Jim" Preston,
custodian of the Senate press gal
lery, has started the ball rolling. and
we rise to say that whenever he
starts something he finishes it. So 1t
will be with the proposed public links
association, for Jim is go-getter.
And the action may be loohe for in
the very near future. for the public
links golfers are intensely anxious to
appear before the annual meeting OF
the District association with an or
ganization behind them.
Hen ". Hart. n former member OF
the Columbia team, is in Washington
hA md g.
days here before returning to Cali
fornia, where he now lives.
Bob B.rnctt. pro at Chevy Chase,
says the supporting members of golf
clubs are going to be hit so hard if
the lively ball is banished that they
will set up a howl and will continue
bowling until they get it back.
Barnett takes the angle that the
lively ball has added from % to -
yards to the long game of many a
man to whom in the OLD days courtyard
drive was but an annual occurrence.
Now lie gets off screamer every
once in a while-all due to the lively
ball. The Chevy Chase pro asserts
the good players will not be handi-
capped by abolition of the ball. In
other words the burden will fall
where it can least be borne-upon
the shoulders of the mediocre player,
who today feels that at last he is
getting somewhere when he clouts the
lively ball an eighth of a mile down
the fairway.
Two so-calIed championships are
held each year by two newspapers of
Washington for the players who use
the public links. 1t won't be long
now before these events VIII De under
way, which brings TO mind the ques-
ton: Why don't the District of Co
llImbia Golf Association-thc legally
constituted body governing golf in
this immediate eighborhood-get be-
hind such d movement and run OFF q
real District public links champion
shin? Such a move would be pop
ular one.
II is done in other localities. New
York, Chicago, Toledo, Cleveland and
other municipalities have their pub
lie course champions, who in soms
cases. also, are the city titleholders by
virtue of scoring in competitions with
the pick of golfers from the private
clubs. That cannot be done here, as
the amateur championship as at pres
ent, is open only to members OF CLUBS
= which are members of the District
Golf Association. This is not proper
condition.
Certain players who do not belong
to private clubs have been invited in
the past to compete in the District
championship and may be asked
again, but the great bulk of pub
lie links players are left out in the
cold The District Association could
do two fine things by holding pub
lie links championship and by OPEN
ing UP its entry list for its champion
ship to every golfer in the District
who could come within the proper
handicap limits.
Indications point to the Indian
Spring Golf Club getting the District
amateur event this year. breaking the
precedent that has kept the cham
pionship rotating between Chevy
Chase and Columbia since the organ
ization of the local golf association.
Indian Spring has fine course-one
that demands a really topnotch game
to score well upon and probably will
require a higher class of golf than
ever before to parallel the figures
made in other District championships.
The criticism has been made that the
course has monotonous sameneSs-
that the second shots are too much
alike. Yet, if this is so, it requires
a real golfer to continue throwing
long, high iron shots up to the hole
side on any course. And Indian
Spring demands much more than a
long iron second shot, as has been
claimed. Its short holes are good,
and it's holes of average length exact
ing. All in all the Maryland club has
layout of championship. calfber.
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