Evening star., 1926-05-30


While details for the match are in
process of arrangement. a group OF
Washington Golf and Country Club,
| players-eight in all--haye made
plans to engage a like number Of
| Rolling Road players on the Mary
| land course on June 10 and 20. DR..
A. W. Howard, j. I. Power, J. Fl.
Hopkins and G. 7. Howard are the
Washington men planning to make
the trip.
With the close of the Middle At
lantic championship yesterday. golf
around the Capital gets a respite for
a week, even though some of the
clubs have planned special events for
Memorial day. The Chevy Chase
Club will hold the annual competition
for the Victor Kauffmann Memorial
day trophy and othef clubs have ar
ranged special Journeys.
The next big event is the annual
Spring affair of the Columbia. Coun-
try Club. to be held June ., 10, II and
l., a tournament which usually at
tracts a record entry list and brings
Lout the finest of competition.
y
were in the tourney, a list larger
than any other local event ever had.
Then comes another week without a
golf event, leading up to another high
spot in local golfdom-the second an
nual Congressional Country Club
tourney, to be played June 23, "a, 25
and 26.
BY the time the end Of the schedule
is reached with the playing of the
Congressional tourney. there win have
been seven big golf events completed
about the Capital in nine weeks-far
too lengthy a schedule for even. the
most hardened, tournament player
and g. tournament list that becomes
grind long before the end. Although
the question has been agitated for
some time, the District Golf ASsocia-
tion and the clubs that comprise it
have failed to find a way to split. up
the tournaments between Spring and
Fall, and each succeeding year finds
the same stiff tourney schedule,
Roger CoOmbs Of Kirkside scored an
ace a. few days ago, holding a. 16O-
yard iron shot.
The third of the miniature tourna.
ments held by the Women's District
Golf Association will be played at the
Congressional Country Club on Tues
day. Entries may be phoned to Miss
Phyllis Keller, secretary of the asso-
citation, North 5047, or may be made
at the tee on Tuesday.
Indian Springs woman golf, team
won the first team match Of the asso.
citation at Indian Spring on Friday,
scoring Is points to 1015 for Columbia
and ia for combined team from
Washington and Congressional. Mrs.
Z. r.. Tilley had low gross with q 90,
with Miss Keeler second at 81.
Mrs. II. A. Knox, one of the lead
ing women golfers Of the Indian
Spring Club, set q new women's
mark for the course last Wednesday,
negotiating the long and difficult lay
out in "a, exactly women's par. Mrs.
Knox played with Mrs. l.. b. Chap
man and Mrs. f. r. Tilley Of Indian
Spring and Mrs. j. M. Haynes of Co
lumbia. Her score follows:
Out. 555 554 SIS 3-42
In 546 545 So 5--42-s4
Women players from the clubs
about Washington have organized in
ter-club matches to be played once
each week. Teams have been enter
ed from Columbia, Chevy Chase, In.
dian Spring, Washington and Con-
gressional, and the matches are to
be played in foursomes.
Indian Spring will hold tombstone
tournament tomorrow as its Memorial
day golf event.
A. l.. H0ughton. the Manor Club
champion. handicapped himself out of
a prize in the blind bogey handicap
at Manor last Sunday. He selected
a handicap Of z, and shot score Of
II, which gave him a net Of. 20. When
the winning number was produced, it
was found the blind bogey score
was ~.
Henry ID. Nich0isen's ~ in winning,
the qualifying round in the Middle