Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-02-22


lam d. Richardson
Manor club plans To enter a team
in the interclub series If held this
year. Last year the club competed
in A three.cornered series of team
matches. in which Argyle and Beaver
Dam were its competitors.
Early in the Spring the club. acting
With William Mackie. its new pro
fessional, will inaucurate a series of
club tournaments with a view to
selecting team members.
AL Tredor OF Beloit. Wis. has been
named assistant tn Mackie at
Manor and will report for duty about
March l.
Announcement that Thomas D.
Armour may he named professional
AT the Congressional Country Club
has been well received among golfers
of the city. Armour is one Of the
most popular of the paid instructors
in the game. A former Scottish and
French amateur champion. Armour
turned professional about year and
half ago and has since been IA mixed
one Of the foremost pros in this
country. He is one of the mos,
pleasing stylists Of the game gen
tleman and competent instructor.
He will make welcome addition To
the ranks of the golf professionals
here. Armour showed his wares
here less than year ago. PLAYING
with John Farrell against Roland r.
Mackenzie and Dave Thompson in
a match at the Washington Golf and
Country Club.
Chairman Paxton of the golf com
mittee of the Washington Club has
amassed one of the finest collections
Of ,,ic IF ha ri,
bers anywhere about the city Pho
tographs of at least two score mem
bers of the club on the course are
scattered around the grill of the Nir-
ginia club. The grill by the way,
has been refurnished into an attrac-
tive lounging room. Photographs of
the famous professionals who have
played at the club also grace the
walls
Within a short time the men who
control golf in Washington and in the
Middle Atlantic section will meet to
thrash out tournament schedule,
70 set dates for the important cham
pionships and To discuss matters rela-
tive to the game hereab during
the past year.
The Middle Atlantic Golf Associa-
ton has called its meeting for the
y
lard Hotel. while the District Golf
Association will hold its session on
March S. At the twin meetings dates
for all the 1925 Journeys will he listed.
Only one club in this section has set
its tournament dates. the Baltimore
country Club having selected May 20
II and % for its Spring event.
Several tours of the Far West and
the South have been sponsored by
Western golf magazines. affording
opportunity for golfers to get in on
a club plan trip which did not entail
great expense. Two Of the large
steamship companies only recently
announced completion of arrange
ments for an ambitious trip to cover
almost month. offering the golfing
tourists a complete playing tour of
most Of the famous British courses.
as well as condensed view of the
British Isles.
The tour can he made for less than
$500. including ocean fare both ways.
hotel bills and green fees. rail and
automobile hire and other incidentals.
The first golf tour starts on Nav
% from New York. and the party Is
scheduled to arrive back in the me-
tropolis on June 81. The second tour.
= more expensive proposition. to cost
$3.50 and cover more territory. starts
on May % and ends July 3 at New
York
Other tours. varying in their itin-
nrary. are also offered Some Of the
courses to he taken in in the course
Of the tours are st. Andrews. Turn
berry. Walton Heath, Gleneagles,
Mid-Surrey Deal. Prestwick. Rye,
Stoke Poges. North Berwick, Sand
wich. OXhey. G,llane. st. Georges
Hill. Sunningdaie. Troon and Sandy
Lodge. all familiar names to Ameri-
ban golfers who follow affairs of the
links abroad.
John G. Walker. president of the
Columbia Country Club, has engaged
passage late in April for England.
He will he present when the Walker
Cup team Of which Roland r. Mac
kenzie. a Columbia player. is a mem
Der. meets a British team In defense
Of the trophy. Fetained two years ago
by the American team In matches
on Long Island.