Evening star., 1926-04-11

Jones and Gum Will be travelling
North from Georgia on their way to
New York TO sail for England where
they will play on the Walker Cup ap-
gregation,s Roland Mackenzie aIso is
a member Of the team, so that
whether ano. her team member is Sc
lected for the forthcoming exhibition,
at least three of the defenders OF our
international golf reputation will
show tneir wares on LAY ,. The
Walker Cup ceam leaves New York
on May 5.
Watts Gum never has played here.
Bob Jones has. Jones finished eighth
In the national open at Columbia in
1921, wrecking a reasonable chance
TO win at the fearsome fifth. where
he hooked three balls out of bounds
to finish with a disas rous g. He
stopped off in Washington one day
last Oc.ober, on his. way to Chicago,
and ran out to Burning Tree to watch
Leo Diegel win the Middle Atlantic
professional championship.
Seven public links tournaments at
Rock Creek and East Potomac Parks
have been tentatively arranged by the
public course management. The first
and largesr Of the scheduled events is
the District public links championship
at East Potomac Park, early in the
Summer. Then will follow the East
Potomac Park championship and the
Rock Creek Park championship, while
the women also will hold three events
for the same titles. A junior tourna-
ment for boys also is planned by the
public course management. Prizes
have been donated by a local sports
goods house.
George j. VOigt of Bannockburn,
the District amateur champion,
ronnped around East Potomac Park in
73sshots on his second trip out this
Spring. Voigt has been playing in
door golf during the Winter.
Professional golfers of Washington
and nearby States will meet at the
Burning Tree Club tomorrow to play
golf and elect officers of the Middle
Atlantic Professional Golfers Asso-
ciation. A sweepstakes tourney has
been arranged.
Designed to save the regular tee
during the early months of Spring
while the grass gets a good start,
temporary tee has been put in use
at the eleventh hole of the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club, lengthen-
ing the hole to about 165 yards and
making it a much more difficult shot
The temporary tee is the same tha
was in use five years ago, before tho
course was changed, when the hole
was then the ninth. Since that time
the green has been entirely rebuilt.
and newly trapped.
Indian Spring Club golfers were
allowed to use the regular greens
the club yesterday for the first tim,
this year. The golf committee, head
ed Z by Perry B. Hoover, has an
nounced that a new green at the
eighth hole will be in use during tn
Spring invitation tournament of tn,
club during the first week in May
The regular seventh green, on one
of the longest holes of the course
will not be put in use until June, in
order that the grass planted last Fall
may get a firm root and be certain
to stay under the heat of Summer.
Tommy Armour, professional at the
Congressional Country Club, who took
up his new job on April 3, went t
New York for a few days last weel
TO settle up his affairs in that city
and is back on the job. = Armour J.
pleased with his new post and is par
ticularly so with the course at Con
gressional. He believes the golf lay
out is one of the best he has seen, re
quiring all the shots in the bag o
even the most expert player.
A suggestion that a junior cham
pionship be held by the Middle At
lantic Golf Association over the
course of the Baltimore Country Club
this year has been made to the asso
ciation by the club. The matter ha9
been taken under consideration b.
thes Golf Association, while at the
same time another suggestion that tn
association hold a women'S champion
ship has been made. The annual
mems tournament of the body will be
played at the Washington Golf and
Country Club May 26. 27. % and 30.