Evening star., 1925-08-30


Mackenzie will be installed as a fires
Roland has played in two tourna-
ments at Washington, and has won
them both. That course has been the
scene of several of his most spectacu-
lar feats about the Capital, for he
won the tournament there in 1924 and
1925, establishing a new course record
Of 69 in taking the 1925 event.
II he does not defend his title at
Washington this Fall. the tournament
will lack the usual zest that is given
by player defending his title.
Fred Mcleod. professional at Co
lumbia, who has always taken deep
interest In the play of his pupils in
the various tournaments they enter,
is in Pittsburgh watching the play of
Mackenzie, Dunphy and Stevinson,
all of whom regard him as the best
of teachers. In addition, the Wash
ington group includes A. l.. Hough-
ton, the East Potomac Park title
holder, and Walter r. Tuckerman of
Burning Tree. Albert r. Mackenzie,
father of Roland, and Donald Wood
ward are in Pittsburgh. while II. T.
Shannon and several other Washing.
tonans will attend the championship
Sam Mosby made quite an impress
sion with his snake story published
in the recent bulletin of the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club. AS usual,
a flock of snake stories came in the
wake of the Mosby yarn, but the best
of the lot is credited to r. w. Geare
and DIR. G. d. Kirkpatrick. Geare
and Kirkpatrick were together in
Florida last Winter, and took a trip
across the Caribbean to Bimini, where
other beverages than near beer are
served.
The trip back to Florida was re-
ported as rather rough and the two
mariners decided to straighten the
sea kinks out of their legs by playing
round of golf Immediately on their
arrival on terra firma. On the twelfth
hole Geare yelled out that the father
of all snakes was coiled around his
ball, and Herewith began making
many strokes with his midiron. In
the offing stood kirkpatrick, counting
each stroke. When they got together
at the hole Kirkpatrick claimed it.
but Geare said, mo, those strokes
you saw me take were made when l
was killing the snake"
And he got away with it.
Nj. r.. West, who came back from
Detroit a few weeks ago and showed
his fellow golfers how Bobby Jones
does 1t, apparently profited from a
game with the amateur champion at
the Detroit Country Club. West is
leading in the selected score competi.
ton at Washington with card Of 5s,
nothing but brides and eagles.
A busy month for members of the
Argyle Country Club is planned DUR
ing September.
The womens club championship
will be played September 4 to 6. No
qualification round will be necessary.
On September 13 and Ia a mans
handicap affair will be staged at Is
holes medal play. Sunday, September
2I, mixed Scotch foursome will be
played. Partners for the woman
golfers win be selected by lot.
You can't fool woodpecker." !"
With this remark, DIR. J. Alan Tai
bott of the Washington Golf and
Country Club broke up a perfectly
good game last Thursday, when he
spied a .woodpecker circling over the
head of one of his opponents in a
four-ball match.
John /. Power. to whose head
the woodpecker directed it's momen-
tdry attentlon, apparently undecided
whether to light or not, says Talbot s
remark was out of order. The Incl
dent broke the game wide open and
the players adjourned to the extra
hole. Power was playing the six.
teenth hole when the woodpecker ap.
preached.
The death in an airplane accident
. of Capt. Fraser Hale of the Army Air
Services. one of the really prominent
golfers Of the Nation 10 or IL years
ago, removes from Washington one of
the leading figures of the game
about the Capital. Hale had not had
much time to play golf while he was
stationed in Washington, but his work
in the interclub Journeys, in which
he played on the Chevy Chase team
showed him to be one of the best
golfers about the city. In the Middle
West he was for years leading golf
| figure and a prominent contender in
national events.
Junior golfers of the city are look.
ing forward to the playing of the Dis
! trict junior championship at Colum.