Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1925-05-17

Inc llSt oil entries Tor the bi
amateur championship. Robert T. ]
titleholder; Charles Evans, jr., of Oh
and amateur titles, and Francis Ouirl
amateur champion, are among the fl
intention to compete.
In addition D. Clarke Corkran. win
ner of the tournament for the last two
years and medalist in the national
amateur championship last year;
Perry Adair of Atlanta. former holder
or the Southern championship: Ken
meth p. Edwards. a Chicago star: e.
Warren Corkran. former Middle At
Iantlc champion; August f. Hammer,
former New Jersey champion. and a
host of lesser stars in the champion
ship constellation will compete.
Field Journeys Best.
The field is the finest that ever has
competed in an event not national
championship anywhere near here
and should bring about the finest golf
ever seen in Baltimore
From the Washington viewpoint
the tourney will give Roland r. Mac
Kenzie of Columbia Country Club
bit more of the seasoning he needs
before going on to the place in the
sun his well wishers hope to will Sc
cure in q national tournament Last
year he won the medal at Baltimore
with 10, going on to the final, where
he succumbed to a par shattering
round by ID. Clarke Corkran.
This year his game has improved 25
per cent, and it would not be at all
surprising to see him beat one or
more of the leading amateurs en-
tered in the tournament. Roland
Mackenzie today is q, better golfer
than Perry .Adair, Kenneth Edwards
and others not quite national cham.
pions. That he would give even
Bobby Jones a fine match is a GER
tainty, and if Bobby is just little off
his game an upset might result.
Columbia to Send Score.
More than a score of players have
entered the tournament from Column
bia Country Club, about 10 will play
from Washington Golf and Country
Club, while several more, making
about 40 in all. will enter from Chevy
Chase, Burning Tree and other clubs
about Washington.
Four siXteens will qualify and it
Will be real honor for any golfer
from Washington to be numbered iii
the first 16 at Baltimore. A handicap
event will be held on Saturday. Most
of the Washington contingent viii go
over to Baltimore on Wednesday to
get in a practice round before the
SloI 10 Ol lAul SOds.
Woman golfers of Chevy Chase Club
will entertain a team of eight woman
players from Efkridge Hunt Club of
Baltimore tomorrow at luncheon and
golf at Chevy Chase. Last year the
Chevy Chase women defeated the
E,lkridge women in a match at Chevy
Chase.
An 1S-hoIe medal play competition
for the Presidents cup is scheduled
by Beaver Dam Club for May 80,
along with d driving, approaching
and putting contest, for women. The
Presidents cup must be Won twice
to become the permanent possession
of the victor.
Chevy Chase Clubs woman golfers
will compete this week in the annual
tourney for the French High Commits
sion cup. A qualifying round will be
held Tuesday, with the 80 low net
scores to qualify for match play at
g holes each day the remainder of
the week.
Washington automotive trade golf.
ers have a field day scheduled for to-
morrow at Congressional Country
club, when they will entertain teams
of players from Baltimore, Philadel-
phia, Newark and Pittsburgh. The
teams will play SO holes of golf at
Congressional, to be followed by a
dinner at the club! A tournament for
members of the Washington Automo-
tive Trade Association will be held at
Washington Golf and Country Club
"Wednesday, followed by a dinner at
the club.
Washington's civic clubs have made
a start on the golf team matches
which they have been planning now
Cor more than a year. They played
in their first match at Washington
Golf and Country Club last Friday
and have another match scheduled
for Indian Spring May 90.
Two remarkable SHOTS were made
at the ninth hole at Chevy Chase last
week, both in full view of a gallery
which gathered about the green to
watch the tournament matches go
through the turn. The first and most
remarkable was the 2 made by Gardi-
ner p. Orme. who hooked his tee shot
behind the trees north of the ninth
green and then holed a low running
shot The second was the 50-yard
mashie shot holed from far off the
green by George ]. Voigt for another
at the ninth.
Fredericksburg's new golf club at
the picturesque city on the Kappa
hanock River in Virginia, 81 miles
south of Washington. was opened last
Friday, unfolding to the several
Washingtonians who visited Manns-
field Hall Country Club a picture of
loneliness that only Virginia in May
can afford. The new course of the
club was laid out with the assistance
of DIR. Thomas j. W. Brown of
Bannockburn, who also laid out the
new course at Winchester, Va, and
is declared to be a splendid test of
golf. Fredericksburg never has had
golf facilities until this year, when
the new course of the Mansfield Hall
club was opened.
Officials of the Washington Golf and
Country Club are completely satisfied
after three weeks trial, with the new
starting system in use on busy days
at the first tee, which superseded the
old method of placing balls in a rack.
The balls now are placed in num-
bered rack, and the players must
wait until a starter calls their num-
Der. The new system of requiring
play on Saturdays and during the
busy period on Sunday in four ball
matches is also working well and re-
lieveS congestion.
Washington is planning a match
play tournament during June. with a
handicap event planned for May 80.
Columbia is looking forward to
ceremonies incident to the opening of
the new swimming pool west of the
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