Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-12-18

size and will stretch the hole out to
length Of about 157 or $50 yards.
This is the hole on which a member
Nof the club recently scored an ace,
while another man playing in the
same match made a 2.
The tee at the tenth hole, which
now measures 400 yards. is to be
heightened. adding about 90 yards to
the hole. This tee will also be planted
to bent. One of the big changes
comes on the thirteenth--a drive and
niblick hole-where the tee now To-
Gated Immediately north of the
| twelfth green is to be moved back
to the fence. lengthening the hole
some 90 or % yards. A new tee is
under construction at the short four
teenth, involving some frightening of
the hole, but not changing the re-
quired shot.
Willow trees are to be planted in
the low spot on the right of the If
teenth fairway, bringing out the line
of the fairway in holder fashion, and
the low ground between the second
and fifteenth fairways. The seven
teenth tee is to be enlarged, with the
addition of a few yards to the hole, but
not changing the required shot. The
sixteenth fairway, which has always
been one of the most difficult to keep
grass on because of it's rolling nature,
has been seeded and covered with
fertilizer and, the greens committee
hopes stand of grass will develop
next year that will give good brassie
lies at all times. In addition to these
improvements a new workshop and
barn have been constructed near the
fourth tee to house all equipment now
under the mems locker room, and
total of 1856 trees have been planted
around the golf course.
"Iel" TrayI0r is to be elected presi-
dent of the United States Golf Asso-
citation to succeed William c. Fownes
of Pittsburgh. That is good news for
the millions of golfers over the coun-
try who have watched the human and
efficient administration of national
golf affairs under Fownes and several
of the men who preceded him and
hoped his successor would be of the
same stamp-far seeing, fearless and
always working for the good of the
game. If experience in administration
and human dealings with his fellow
man enter largely into the job of
president of the United States Golf
Association. Mel Traylor will fill the
bill His elevation 10 the post would
have come shortly anyhow. 1t WAS
speeded by the death of Charles o.
Pfeil, another of the group of brilliant
administrators who have managed ma
tional golf affairs for several years
past, but Traylor was in line for the
presidency and would have been
| named for the post in a few years,
without doubt, If Pfeil had lived.
For three decades a leader in golf
affairs around Chicago, one of the
foremost bankers of the metropolis
of Lake Michigan, Traylor has been
| known for years as a keen student OF
the game and it's administration.
| few years ago he was named to the
| executive committee of the organiza-
| ton, joining the group OF men VINO
| have so brilliantly directed the des-
| TIMES of the governing body through
some of it's most difficult years. In all
| their conferences Traylor's judgment
| has been conservative and sound and
| he has been instrumental in institut.
| ing several valuable policies Of the
national body.
The business Of designating on score
cards the exact distance of holes from
the middle of the tee to the middle of
| the green is all bunk" according to
! Sherman Ford of Burning Tree. Ford
claims no golfer can measure shot
so accurately that the addition or
! euhtraction of two or three yards
makes a difference to him. Instead of
designating holes by the odd yardage-
such as 412 yards-Ford proposed that
all holes be designated either in 5s or
0s, such as 365, 430, and so forth. The
plan has merit.
Four professional berths around
Washington and Baltimore are open
this Winter and will be filled before
the apple blossoms bloom next Spring.
Resignation of Eddie Towns at Indian
Spring last week, effective February
/, brought the vacancies at Capital
clubs up to two, for the Bannockburn
post has been vacant for several
weeks. in addition, the berths at the
Rodgers Forge and Baltimore Subur-
ban clubs are vacant or will be vacant
within a few days.
Manor Club golfers next year will
find themselves playing over one OF
the most difficult courses around
Washington next Spring, and later in
the year viii take part in a Manor
Club invitation event, under a pro
gram for club improvement announced