Evening star., 1925-05-03

Entries for the Washington event
close tomorrow night with the golf
committee of the club and Fred d.
Paxton, chairman.
Up to last night a rough count ap-
proXimated the entries at more than
100 players. Double that number are
expected to compete in the tourna-
fment
Roland R. Mackenzie, the District
amateur champion and winner of the
Indian Spring event yesterday, will
play at Washington. He won there
also last year More than a score of
men from Baltimore will play. IS
entries having come in yesterday from
the Maryland Country Club, where
the Middle Atlantic championship will
| be held this year.
A golf dinner on Friday night to
which all tournament contestants are
| invited will be one of the features of
| the event.
The qualifying round will be played
| in two sections, one group starting
| on Wednesday, while the others Will
start Thursday. Friday and Satur-
| day will be devoted to match play.
The course is in splendid condition,
| having rounded into excellent shape
| in the last three weeks. The only
new feature of the course, as COM
pared with the layout of last year, Will
| be a new tenth tee.
Congressional Country Club is plan
| ming a pair of closed club tourna-
ments over two week ends for club
members. The first tournament at
match play will be held May 16 and
| II, while the second will be played
Nav % and "a Members must sub
nit qualifying cards by May 13.
Arthur w. Dunn will again head
the handicap committee in charge OF
handicaps for the newspaper tourna-
ment to be played at the Town and
| Country Club a week from tomorrow.
| Other members of the committee are
| w. r. McCallum, Emmett Dougherty,
George r. Holmes and John z. Coax
| lev. Ray Bryan is chairman of the
committee on prizes, which also in
cludes Raymond Is. Clapper and Gene
/ Kessler Officials of the Town and
| Country Club will present a cup to
| the player with the low net score.
Roland MacKenzie's great length
was well illustrated on the 18th hole
of the final round at Indian Spring
yesterday, when partially against the
wind he played the hole with drive
and niblick shot. The hole is 44O
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great tee shot with a ball nearly hole
high at the 18th. 334 yards.
Burning Tree is not planning to
hold a tournament until the course is
completely finished. Members of the
club hold that the course still is not
wholly finished and do not care to
have an open event until it is.
z Merle Thorpe's hole-in-one last
| Thursday at Burning Tree was the
first ace recorded on any of the holes
| at Washington's newest country club.
| The l came on the eleventh hole, a
very difficult affair of more than 100
! yards to a well-trapped green sloping
toward the player.
Leo Diegel, well known golf pro,
| has left Washington for New York to
take up his duties at the Glen Oaks
Club of Great Neck, Long Island,
where the celebrities of the stage and
press who work in New York live
! their outdoor life Leo does not in.
tend to go to Great Britain, notwith
| standing the fnducement held out to
him by the Florida club, with which
| he will be CONNECTED next Winter
The Florida club offered him 81 ,00o
If he wins either of the two big open
championships.
Before leaving Washington Friday
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