Evening star., 1926-06-20

Beginning with the Town and Coun-
Try club tourney late in April. the
local tournament followers moved
over TO Indian Spring, then TO Chevy
Chase and from Chevy Chase to the
annual Spring affair of the Baltimore
Country club, in which more than
score of Washington golfers took part.
Then came the Middle Atlantic Golf
Association championship at the
Washington Golf and Country Club
and the Spring tourney of the Column
hi. Country Club. to he followed this
week by the Congressional Country
Club tourney.
One Of Leading Cities
Probably no city outside OF New
York and Chicago has as many tour
news scheduled each Spring as the
National Capital. The list rivals even
the hectic days in Chicago back IN
1910. 1911. 1912 and 1918, when Bob
Gardner. Chick Evans, Paul Hunter.
Warren Wood. the Edwards brothers
and several other first-clasS players
were at their best and Journeys were
held nearly ever week in the Spring
and Fail to test the mett!c o. those
then young golfers.
There can be no question that conf
petition. and particularly high-class
competition, brings out th9 best GOlt-
ing qualities of him who would be
successful in the larger national al
fairs But golf tournaments can be
run too close together and. in spite
of their admitted benefits in the way
Of good fellowship and general COM
panionship, too many OF them 90 nor
add anything TO the game.
May Limit Journeys.
Perhaps the Distric; association
NAV see fit TO award not more tnan
foui. tournaments next year. two each
in the Spring and rail-. These, with
the Baltimore Country Club ana the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association
events. should provide plenty OF nigh
class competition for even those who
play in all OF them On top of the
ALREADY overbalanCed Spring sched.
ule. many Washington players are
manning to attend the event offered
by the new Maryland Country Ciun
of Baltimore the second Week in July.
of course. as to the Baltimore Coun-
Try Club and Middle Atlantic tourHe"S
the District association has no JurIS-
diction. but doubtless the officers OF
the Middle Atlantic association would
he glad to go along with the District
Association in spreading the tourna-
ments over the year and eliminating
the overcrowding that has prevailed
in the Spring for several seasons past.
All Of which is not exactly apropos,
but brings US around 10 the tired
tournament competitor who holed out
on the last green in the Columbia
tourney and turning to Il friend said.
Gee. I had tough luck. I had to make
an S on that last hole for my l@1.'
Fred ID. Paxton, chairman of the
golf committee OF the Washington
Golf and Country Club. is the latest
member of the Hole.in-one Club. Pax
ton secured an ace or the second hole
nj the Virginia club, his mashie strik-
ing just short Of the pin and hopping
in The hole on the second bounce This
is the third time this hole has been
made in one.
The Washington Con and Country
Club has a handsome cup resting on
It's trophy shelf which has not been
played for since 1921. The cup IS
the prize presented to the club in
1920 by officers OF the Army who
were then members of the club; only
few Of these men rire still members
Of the Virginia organization and the
cup has not been played for since the
second year of it's existence. James
J. Toy, then a captain in the Army,
won il in its first year of competition.
One member of the club suggests
that the cup be played for each year
at medal play. or that it be put up
as the prize for the leading best ball
combination of the Virginia club. II
at individual medal play, it would
then be called the medal play cham
pionship trophy.