Evening star., 1926-06-06

The field will be split into tw,
the test Wednesday. while the otl
OF medal play Thursday. Match pl
the semi final and final rounds carde
Entries for the tournament, which
closed last night. show the names of
every prominent tournament conten-
der about the city entered.
y dinner will be given by the club
to the tournament contestants during
the fixture.
Looking forward to the holding of
second annual tournament. the Con
gresSional country club golf and en-
tertainmeNt committees met at the
offices of the club in the Investment
building Friday night. discussed the
event to he held June %. "a IS and
26. mnd appointed additional commit
teemen to handle the many details.
The golf committee promises an even
better and bigger tournament than
the banner affair held last October,
and has also arranged a dinner for
contestants. Many entrants from out
of town are expected for the tourna-
ment. which was won last year by w.
Il. McCallum of the Washington Golf
and Country Club.
T. K. McCarl. controller OF the
committee of the club. Other com
mittee members are Joseph f.
Murphy, J. L. Woodsde. John G..
koons. John +. Ieighty, Capt. K. J.
Fielder. J. G.. Roberts. Capt. A. J.
Gore. Guy Mason and Thomas F..
f'laherty.
Entries for the tourney close at
noon, June 21. Privileges of the
course are extended to all tourna-
nent entrants beginning June u.
Thn Town and Country Club is Sc.
Rt ting the team which will represent
the Clu'. in the annual tri-city tourna-
ment to he played June 10 and 30 at
the Lakeside Country club of Rich
mond among teams representing
Washington. Norfolk and Richmond
The team will be selected on the show.
inS made Ey club members up te
June Is and will consist OF eight
members and two altcrnates.
Bob Barnett of Chevy Chase, Eddie
Towns Of Indian Spring and Ralph
Beach Of Burning Tree will leave
Washington late this week for Phila,
delphia to play In the qualifying
round for the national open cham
pionship at Merton on Monday, June
II. A. Is. Thorn, pro at the Town
other sectional qualifying round to
he played at the Lakeside Club OF
Richmond. Ten players will qualify
in the event at Merton, while q
smaller number will qualify at Rich
mond. One of the foremost competi
tors in the Richmond qualifying event
will he Jimmie Thompson, son of vii
fred Thompson, former professional
at Burning Tree. The senior Thomp.
son was in the city last week and said
Jimmie has been playing excellent
golf. The Thompsons are at the
Hermitage Club of the Virginia CAPT
tai.
All sorts of match play. medal play
and four ball play tricks have been
employed in golf contests about Wash
ington but it remains for Gen. James
A. Drain. president of the Washing
ton Golf and Country Club, and G.. e.
Carlin. d member of the board of the
Virginia Club, to figure out the most
unique way of settling the question
of supremacy that has vet been de-
vised.
Gen. Drain and Carlin a former
member of Congress from Virginia
play several times week at Wash
fnGton in a match similar to the old
continuous syndicate method of COM
petition. carrying over the halved
holes until some one wins. Not long
ago they halved the first seven holes
end Drain won the eighth. thereby
becoming s up. Under any other sys-
tem of play. this would seem to be
an almost impossible handicap. but
the next seven holes were halved and
:arlin won the sixteenth to square
the match. Under this system one
NNlsl l.
ming the final hole. could win by IS
up. Both admit it has its drawba cks.
but II puts a premium upon trying.
and they like the way it works out
IF used in tournaments this method
would bring in some wierd and Won
derful victories and defeats, for many
players are so evenly matched that
they halve a half dozen holes
before one weakens or the other
breaks through for a victory Drain,
handicapped by the loss of a hand in
n hunting accident many years ago.
plays a surprisingly strong game,
although he does not quite measure
up in skill with the other one EARNED
veteran of the club, Albert w. How
ard. who has negotiated the present
Washington course in IS.
Did YOU ever, after putting your ball
III water hazard, drop a. ball, have II
roll into the hazard and lose it. there
by losing two balls on one shot? That
is what happened to a player at Wash
ingtOn last week at the eleventh hole
where n lake has been constructed in
front of the green. The player put his
tee shot in the water and lost the ball
Attempting to drop a ball on the grass
less surface of the fairway skinned
clean by the workmen who built the
water hazard, he saw the dropped ball
roll into the water six times. Under
the rule, a dropped ball may be re-
dropped as many times as 1t rolls into
the hazard. But the seventh time the
player lost IL in the water.
This case Is somewhat like the well
known golfer from Chevy Chase who
was on the eleventh green at Wash.
ington in one shot two years ago
putted back into the ditch and finally
holed out in IL strokes.
Newspaper golfers of the city are
planning to hold their annual Spring
divot-digging contest within a few
days after adjournment of Congress,
expected about June 10. Members of
The executive committee of the Wash
ington Newspaper Golf Club favor
the course of the Burning Tree Club
for the event. The course of the
Washington Golf and Country Club
where the event has been played three
times. already has been offered