Evening star., 1925-11-01

woman champion played IN the Cap
won at the Chevy Chase in the only
Miss Colett and FRITZ Stitel. c
national honorS who halls from
play against Leo Dicgcl, the new Mid
Farrell, with handicap OF hall
o'clock
This afternoon at ? O'Clock Mis-
Miss Stife and Farrell. II the We
they will have accomplished the w
half-Stroke-a-hole game has been tri'
they have seldom won against such ;
Although the first snowfall of the
season tell softly on Washington less
than As hours ago, the courses are
free of il today and the match VIII he
PLAYED for the weather man from his
post high in the observatory ON NJ
street promised il will he iai" t"'aN.
Last year Farrell and Sa!HH"n prayed
Roland Mackenz and Dave Ihrn-
son at Washington on \oNomhef >.
the day following the nrSt Sn"Widll "i
the Winter.
Todav's rlatch is eNpc".ed ~ bring
ont the la"cas gallery that mas W.T.
messed an cNn.hit!ou affair about the
Capital in ytS,rS, for seldom has Su"h
an attraction hean hooked by amy OF
the clubs. ArlanC meEtS have heen
made To handle Il gallery of several
served al lhz, club for 81 per person.
Roger CoamhS has reached the final
round i'm the Washington Guf ana
Country Club championship. Which
was postrored from lasI w"eK end be
cause of inclement weather. IiH. ). /.
McClenahan ana NJ. +. West have
reached the Semi-final in The lower
bracket. West defeating ths play
through title holder. W. L Met alum,
i'm A match pay th.au"l the SNOW
storm last Friday afternoon. Vest
won on the final green when Act -
Ilm, attempting to n:t':I h MS ban iht"
the hole, took siN Sh"'S on IN" pul
ting green Coomhs Won his semi
anal match from Charles Fl. Doing,
ir.. last "Wednesday.
Fred Mcleod. pre- 'eS>ionai at '"'um-
, hia. has shoulderei an added burden
that of supervisor at ne COLI '"ht7'.
Mcleod has been placed in c"mn.s'e
charge of the course working under
Chairman Cha smar of the greens com.
mitree. He takes up his new Job to-
dav. The new duties of the popular
Columbia pro carry with them An
added monetary consideration.
Two Of the first steps OF the new
course supervisor will he 10 change
the entire layout of the fourteenth
and eighteenth greens. The four
teenth will he pushed hack > or
wards bringing the back of the green
very close to the railroad track. In
addition. the contour of the green VIII
be changed. The eighteenth. which
some members of the clun have re-
garded as unfair from putting stand
point will be entirely reconstructed.
Radical changes in The layout of the
second hole at the Washington Golf
and Country Club VIII greet the mem
berS of the club who have not played
the course since early in the past
week Three deep traps, extending
nearly all the WY around the putting
green. have been constructed to catch
balls that would otherwise go down
the hill. Instead of making the hole
harder. addition Of the traps is hoped
TO make the hole easier. for they will
catch balls that would otherwise go
bounding far down the hill on either
side In addition they are very likely
to speed up play on the hole and re-
lieve congestion which occurs at the
second hole on crowded days.
Professional golfers in the Middle
sta ged the first open cha mpionship
under the name of the Middle Atlantic
open are considering asking for afiil-
iation with the Middle Atlantic Golf
-ASsoCia ton. The pros believe affilia-
tion, with the recognized body in con
troll of golf in this part of the country
will increase their influence and aid
them in other DAYS. Fred Mcleod
Is president of the professional or
sanzation. The professionals who
played in the open tournament at
Burning Tree all expressed the great
est admtra ton FOR what Leo Diegef
termed one of the finest golf courses
in the world. DieGel. the winner. is
a. firm admirer of Burning Tree and
has established some enviable marks
on the course And by the way. Leo
never will forget the day he negotiated
Burning Tree in 81 shots, one under
par. and Yet lost the match to Fred
Mcleod of Columbia. who shot g.
but still beat Diesel
Appointment of Eddie Towns Of
Friendship as professional at India
Spring club brings to Indian Spring
one Of the best golfers in the country.
Towns heat Jock Hutchison at
French Lick in September year ago,
and has made reputation as one
Of the best Of the professional brigade
lie succeeds Peter Jackson a India n
Spring. whose resignation becomes
effective November 10. jackson is
planning to enter business in Wash
ington.
Washington's newspaper golfers
will engage in their semi-annual
heCira Of strokes and words on Tues
day at Congressional Country Club.
The occasion will he the annual Fall
event of the Washington Newspa per
Golf Club and what the neWspa per
players will do to the Congressional
fourse is A shame. Anyhow Congress
Sional plans several ma iOr improve
ments this Fall and perhaps the news
paper golfers Will he good enough to
dig their diVots on parts of the course
that will undergo changes.
Golf clubs about Washington. real
izing the unfairneSs of asking a club
member to devote great part OF his
time to supervision of the course, are
turning to professional greenkeepers,
bver whom the chairman of the green's
committee will have but "A supervisory
capacity. In other words. the green
keeper will be responsible for the up
keen of the course and the chairma n
" the committee his spokesman be
fore the board of governors. Indian
Spring took the initial step along this
line last Spring Washington is look
ing around for an experienced and
skilled greenkeeper and Columbia has
taken steps TO transfer supervision of
the course from the shoulders of g. il.
rhasmar, chairman of the greens com
uaittee, to + professional
SEMI-FINAL TO JOHNSTON
IN MEXICAN NET PLAY
MEXICO, CITY. October 81 P).-
William M. Johnston of San Francisco