Evening star., 1927-05-29
UNDREDS Of golfers at all the
clubs about Washington will
be out in force tomorrow to
| compete in special club events

L Il compete in special club events
ushering in the first of five
weeks in which there has been sched-
uied no big invitation tournament.
Virtually all the clubs have scheduled
events for their members.
Chevy Chase Club golfers will COM
pete tomorrow in an 1S-hole handicap
match play against par event for the
Victor Kaufman Memorial day cup
Contestants will use seven-eighths of
their club handicap in the tourney.
Members of the Washington Golf
and Country Club will compete in an
1S-hole handicap event for cigarette
case presented to the club by the
Siamese legation and for other prizes
put up by q member of the club.
Manor Club members will play in
an 1S-hole handicap tombstone tourna-
ment
Indian Spring Club golfers, many of
whom have competed in the club in
vitation tourney, which ended yester
day, will play in tombstone event
at 18 holes.
Members Of the Beaver Dam Golf
Club will play in the annual handi-
cap competition for the Presidents
cup. The trophy must be won three
times for permanent possession.
compete in two special 1S-hole handi-
cap events.
Four Chevy Chase golfers are COM
peting in the qualifying round of the
Gibson Island tournament, which will
be played today and tomorrow, with
match play rounds Tuesday and We'd
nesday. Robert Stead, jr., c. Ashmead
Fuller, A. McCook Dunlop and j. B.
Du Bose are the golfers who made the
trip.
Fuller is playing particularly well
now, having scored a 20 and II on
successive days at Chevy Chase last
week.
The annual Spring tourney Of the
Washington Newspaper Golf Club will
be played at the Congressional Coun-
try Club, June z. The event will be
the usual 1S-hole handicap affair.
Middleton Beaman of Bannockburn
amassed quite a record in the Indian
Spring tournament which concluded
yesterday. Without making single
round of the course below 100, he won
his first match, and 4; his second
6 and 4, and his third match by
the same margin, anneXing the final
when r. G.. Aivord was unable to play.
incidentally the Indian Spring golf
committee decided Alvord was not
eligible to receive the runner-up prize
because he did not play the final. and
ordered w. l.. Heap and l.. II. Green,
the unsuccessful semi-finalists. to play
fer the runner-up position. Heap won.
Woman golfers of the Indian Spring
Club will compete in miniature
tournament for club members next
Friday. A siX-hole qualifying round
will be held with the women to
qualify in flights of four and play
nine-hole match rounds
The sixteenth green at the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club, re-
planted to bent early in the Spring.
has come along in good shape anG Will
be ready for play in few weeks. A
temporary green about 80 yards short
of the regular green is now in use.
The next local golf tournament is
the annual Spring initiation event of
the Columbia Country Club, to be
played June 8, 8, 10 and II. Column
bia will probably draw the largest
entry list of any of the local events.
Last year the entry list went far be
yond the 800 mark and this year will
probably be no exception.
Women golfers of clubs about Wash
ington will prepare for the next two
weeks for the District women's titu-
lar event. to be played June IA. Is,
16, II and IS, at the Chevy Chase
Club. Dorothy White. versatile star !
of the Washington Golf and Country |
Club, now holds the title. She showed |
her aptitude for medal play recently |
by winning The Evening Star Trophy |
at her home club. She won the Dis |
trict title last year at the Congression- |
al Country Club. defeating Mrs. J. NJ. /
Haynes of Columbia in the final round. |
Chevy Chase women players will |
next week for the French |
High Commission Cup, postponed from
last week.
The outstanding event Of this week
at local golf clubs. in the absence of
any big invitation event, is the COM
petition for the r. Oden Horstmann
Trophy, emblematic of the Chevy