Evening star., 1926-04-18

the District amateur champion, anC
professional and former champion of
Kirkwood has several new tricks in
hts bag and comes to Washington
after q successful tour of the South.
The match will start at O'Clock and
will be followed by an exhibition of
trick shots by Kirkwood.
Senior golfers Of the Chevy Chase
Club banded together in the Senior
Golf Association, with comprehen-
slVe tournament schedule for the sea-
sonson already outlined, will meet on
April 2S to elect officers for the com.
ing season. A tournament for the
seniors will start on April 2S and con-
tinue through the following day-a
handicap medal play event at Is holes.
On the same day a ringer tourney will
start for the seniors to end on Octo-
ber 80.
Handicaps will be the same during
the tournament 10 days hence, as they
were last Fail. A putting tournament
has been arranged for May l at is
holes medal play, while the executive
committee has arranged other tourna-
fnent events.
With It's invitation tournament
scheduled for the 1IrSL ween III 4'lay
Indian Spring is grooming it's course
preparing tor what it hopes to be the
best season since the club was opened
tive years ago. Members OF the club
and the golf committee are making
every effort to nave Lne course III
apple.pie order and hold q bang-up
tournament. Members of the Grub
have been on the regular greens since
u week ago yesterday alter using tenn
porary putting surfaces since last No
VNmber.
Inc club will pass into membership
control on May /. At the same time
a membership campaign will get unoer
way to terminate on June l. With the
conclusion of the membership drive
officers of the club will bend their
efforts to laying out Il clock golf
course and tennis courts.
Workinen are now constructing a
porch on the south side of the mems
locker room. The eighth green at
Indian Spring has been entirely re-
built and will be put in play about
June |. The seventh green is in
process Of rebuilding, and permanent
green is In use at this long hole.
An instance of the power in Roland
MacKenzie's tee shot was given last
TUESDAY at the Town and Country
Club. Playing with Sidney Reizen-
stein as a partner against Albert r.
Mackenzie and Page Hufty, the
youthful Walker Cup team member
laid his tee shot on the first green
290 yards away and holed the putt
for .. Roland and Reizenstein won.
Roland Mckenzie and Fred Nc
Leod, Columbia's crack amateur and
equally brilliant professional, will
cross clubs this afternoon with q pair
OF doughty golfers of the Congression-
al Country Club at Congressional.
Page Hufty, North and South amateur
champion, and Tom Armour, Con-
Rressional's crack professional. will
pair against the Columbia duo in the
first of pair Of home matches.
They will play again next Sunday
afternoon at Columbia.
George J. Voigt and r. c. Nc
Kimmie are playing today at Beaver
Dam against George Diffenbaugh and
frank Hartig.
Members Of the Congressional Coun-
try Club have arranged a dinner for
Tom Armour on May 23 and "a, two
days before he sails from New York
for England to play in the British
open championship.
Congressional Country Club Will
play host tomorrow to the pros about
Washington in the second of the
usual Monday sweepstakes competi-
lions.
Morven Thompson, chairman of
the golf committee of the Chevy
Chase Club 70 rthe last three years,
was reelected to the membership of
the committee yesterday by a vote
of club members.
Thompson announced that Winter
rules viii be suspended and the ball
must be played where 1t lies after
next Wednesday. On that day. also,
the regular greens will all be In use.
j. Newton Brewer, q member Of the
washington Golf and Country Club, is
receiving congratulations on his first
hole in /. Brewer secured the ace on
the fourteenth at the Washington
course, a 234-yard affair to well
guarded green. He played the tee
shot with a driver and took all the
wind out of the sails of George r.
Holmes, who was his opponent.
Miller b. Stevinson, the fourth
member Of the match at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club two
weeks from today, in which Robert
T. Jones, jr., and Watts Gum, win
ner and runner-up in last years anna
teur championship, and Roland II.
Mackenzie Of Columbia, medalist in
the same event, will play, is well
equipped TO contest with such stall
warts. Although STEVENSON has been
playing golf but eight years, In that
relatively short space of time he mas
established himself as not only one
Of the leading linksmen OF the city,
but also one Of the best In the Mid
Cf0NSnGnn
won two of the big invitation tourna-
ments around Washington-the Co
lunbia event Of 1922 and the Chevy
Chase of 1924.
STEVENSON always Is on his game,
and has played remarkably well In
private matches held at clubs about
washington so far this Spring He
has scored as low as SO at Columbia,
and Is at present the club champion.
Congressional is going through a
course Of bunkertng that VIII make
the course several strokes harder Tor
the man who is not on the line on the
long and iifficult holes on the Mont
eomery County layout. One of the
most vexing of the new bunkers from
the standpoint of the long hitter Is
sure to be- the one on the seventeenth
near the right side Of the fairway $50
yards from the tee, just about where
q well placed and well hit tee shot
stops. The bunker at the right side of
the fairway on top of the hill at the
twelfth has been done away with, but
10 take its place the bunkers in front
Of the greens at the thirteenth and
fourteenth have been deepened and
widened. The cross bunker at the
left side Of the fairway at the fifth has
been removed. but other traps have
been placed around the green.
Around the seventh green workmen
are busy constructing traps to catch
a hooked or sliced ball, while changes