Evening star., 1925-03-15

With ]. o. Bloom as acting Cal
university are laying plans for for
inviting Georgetown, Maryland Uni
Ridge College to join in the organic
A proposal made by the George
series OF home and home matches
among representatives of the colleg
If organized, the league will be the
first recognition of golf as an inter-
collegiate sport in this section of the
country, although all the large north
ern universities have teams and play
regular schedules.
Rock Creek Park. the popular
northwest home of the municipal
links divot diggers, will be operated
this year under the supervision of the
Government Welfare Board, with the
clubhouse in charge of Maj. James
4. O'Brien, U. s. A, retired. Maj.
O. N Solbert assistant officer in
charge of public buildings and
grounds, made this announcement last
night.
Danny Horgan, who was assistant
professional at Chevy Chase last
year and who has been golf instruc-
tor at the Racquet Club during the
Winter, viii be the professional and
instructor.
The course and clubhouse will open
next Friday. with the course in charge
of Sergt. Patrick Joyce. Sergt. Joyce
viii also be In charge of construc
ton, upkeep and maintenance of the
course, now under construction; which
will be seeded by April 10. 1t is the
hope of the constructors to have the
new nine-hole course open for play
by late Summer or early Fall.
H. F. Burns has been named liaiSon
officer between the golf course and
the Office of public buildings and
grounds.
A new lunchroom has been built,
which will be enlarged as needed.
Mel Shorey, former professional at
the Manor Club and now pro at West
Potomac, had a remarkable round OF
golf at the Washington Golf and
Country Club last Sunday, scoring
20, which equals the pro record for
the course, held by Dave Thomson.
Shoreys mark was made under
Winter rules. with preferred lies
through the fairway, but it is none
the less remarkable. for in the Spring
ground conditions do not lend them
selves to low scoring, even though
the player is allowed to tee UP his
ball. Shorey played two reusds of
the course. scoring rs in the morn
ing and 20 in the afternoon. He was
played with r L. Nichols against A.
l. Houghton and Charles N. Agnew,
ir. Houghton and Shorey had q best
ball of 81.
Although there was no discussion
of the matches at the District Golf
Association meeting last Monday
night, it IS practically assured that
the team matches which have been a
feature of the local season for two
years past will be resumed this sea-
son. f
Ordinarily the schedule for the
matches is drawn up at a meeting
held about the middle of May. and
although no date has been announced
for the meeting, 1t will probably be
held about the same time this year.
The ma tches do not start until after
the extensive local golf schedule is
about completed. Columbia has won
the championship for three success
stve years.
All attendance records for the open
ing Of the East Potomac Park golf
course went by the boards yesterday,
when S2e persons played the full Is
holes during the day.
S. g. Loeffler, in charge Of the
course, declared that despite the
threatening day more people crowd
ed the fairways than on any other
opening day in the past five years
During the three days past more
than six hundred players have OBJ
tained lockers. This is by all odds
the largest figure recorded for any
past preseason golfng interest.
IL Chevy Chase and Columbia could
have been termed easy" golf courses
last year, that allusion cannot be
made to them this year During the
Winter golf committees of the two
clubs have been busy, bunkering here.
adding a touch of difficulty there and
building new tees until the courses
shape up harder than ever before.
Columbia is using Its new second
green, built on the site Of the old put
ting surface. but brought right down
10 the bank of the ditch and dropped
at the back from the high level of
last year. 1t looks great now, but it's
apt to be little harder pitch shot
than last Summer when the green
bakes out, for the elevation against
which a ball could be pitched is much
lower and 1t won't be so easy to make
it stick.
Changes at the fifth at Columbia
make mandatory playing straight
across the big bunker, for a row of
trees has been placed along the right
side of the fairway, back of the ninth
green.
At Chevy Chase, the golf committee
has about finished it's task of bunker
Ing. with but minor items, such as a
small bunker on the back end of the
Z thirteenth and a little more sodding
needed to make the changes complete.
While members of Columbia are
without certain features which they
have had in the past, they can note
progress on the new locker room and
swimming pool being constructed just
west Of the grillroom, which will give
them much better facilities than they
have ever had.
Roland Mackenzie, the District
amateur champion, is hitting the ball
IN better fashion than he did toward
he end OF last year, when he was
at the peak of a game that seems
destined to send him a long way in
national golf affairs. Roland has
been practicing steadily this Winter
and, while he has made no serious
attempt at low scoring, is hitting the
ball fine.
Burching of the local tournaments
through the month of May and the
first part of June. as this year. brings
the query as to why some clubs
DO not have Fall events. So far Ban
aockburn is the only club that is
scheduIeI to hold Fall tournament,
with the exception of the District
amateur championship. Congress
sional, however, may hold a. Fall
event
The latter part of September and
for golf about Washington. Courses
OF 90 q