Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-08-29

VIII be played III tOurSOneS starting
The Labor day event at Indian
Spring will be a miniature tournament
with the first flight starting from
scratch and the remainder of the plays
ers using three eighths of their handi
caps.
Club caddies will hold their annual
event on September 10. They will
have the use Of the course tomorrow
morning for their first practice round.
Away out in South Dakota, where
ertswhile buffalo ranges have given
way to golf courses, it don't take
super golf to qualify in tournament.
Watson B. Miller of the Washington
Golf and Country Club. well known
for his connection with the American
Legion here returned the other day
from the West, where he qualified in
tournament for the first time in his
career on the links. He made the
second fight in a tourney in South
Dakota with a score of 107, Low
qualifying score was So. The fly in
the ointment where Miller was con-
cerned was that he didn't know he
had qualified until the following
morning, and by that time he was
200 miles away.
Tommy Armour, popular Congress
sional Country Club pro. is in New
York nursing rheumatism in n
shoulder which has kept him off the
links for more than a week. Armour
is expected back in Washington in a
few days. He did not play in the
P. G. A. qualifying round at Congress
sional last Friday. Ralph Beach of
Burning Tree, one Of the qualifers
last year, was also too II to play.
Bannockburn Golf Club tomorrow
will begin mailing out announcements
of it's annual Fall invitation golf tour
nament, to begin September 22 and
run through September %. The
tourney doubtless will attract a fine
| field of local stars, among them
George J. Voigt, holder of the two big
championships around Washington.
| Voigt was medalist and tourney Win
ner last year.
Both the mems ard women's cham
| pionShips at the Washington Golf
and Country Club will be run off dur
! ing the latter part of September and
will not stretch out to such a time as
to cause contestants to lose interest
| in the title tits. Announcing this de-
cision yesterday, Fred d. Paxton,
chairman of the clubs golf commit
| tee, said he hoped to clear the way for
later affairs to be held during October.
A tourney is planned for the Army
Cup, and women's affair may be held
for cup donated by florist shop
several months ago.
Bob Barnett, pro at Chevy Chase,
came within inches of securing hole
| in one at Congressional last Friday.
His tee shot at the 120-yard sixteenth
hole came within a short space of
holing out. That tourney, the quail
| flying round of the 7. G.. A. cham
pionship, found many queer incidents,
marked by unusually high scores.
| Last weeks heavy rains had made
the grass on the fairwayS so heavy
with little time to cut 1t that some
of the lies through the fairway were
virtually as bad as lies in the rough.
The greens had been cut and rolled
and were fairly fast and a wind blew
from the west. The lowest score Of
the day was IT, made by Jimmie
| Thompson of Richmond in the morn
ing and by Barnett in the afternoon.
The prize score of the day was the
8 registered on the sixteenth hole by
! r. A. Gabriel of Rock Creek Park in
the first round while Dave Thorn
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fourteenth, drive and pitch hole
Richard Cook, for several years a
caddie at Washington and recently
| clubmaker at East Potomac Park
has been named caddie master at
Congressional.
Dave Thomson of Washington will
leave the city early this week to play
in the Virginia State open champion
ship at the Hermitage Golf Club,
| Richmond, Va. for cash prizes put
| up by the Virginia State Golf AS
ISOLATION and by a Richmond news
paper.
Washington Golf and Country Club
| players are laying plans to entertain
| a group of Maryland Country Club
golfers. Week end golf matches will
feature the program.