Evening star., 1927-04-17

afternoon in an 1S-hole best
ball medal play professional
match at the Washington GoE anu
Country Club.
ahout the CAPITAL and Baltimore nave
sienified their intention to enter the
tourney. The event will be the sec
ond affaia, of the year TO be staged Dy
the Middle Atlantic Professional
Golfers Association.
The next tournament after tomor-
rows event will be staged at baIti.
more club and win find the pros palreS
with women partners on May Z. BOD
Barnett of Chevy Chase is to steal
march on his brethren of the palo
clan today and play the Washington
course with Dave Thomson. the nome
club pro, and two amateurs.
An acceptance of the challenge flung
at British golfers by ;. M. Newton,
member of both Burning Tree and
congressional backing Tommy Ar
1mour and Bob Cruickshank against
any British professional pair has been
cabled to this country
The New York Telegram yesterday
r @eixea a cable from Golf illustrated
of London on behalf of British sports
men aAcepting the $1,000 side Det on
Armour and Cruickshank and ofIerihs
Tn 1FlDte the Dels L W. heAN . NACp ~NNN
ton cabied a $5 900 bet that Armour
and Cruickshank could play any palr
of British pros without losing the m
+ernatfonal best ball championship
they won at Miami early in March
Armour and Cruickshank will sal!
from New York. June %, with group
of the American golfng arhonauts3
seeking the British open crown, now
held bv Bob Jones. The championship
will be played July, 10, II, i ana 10,
and the match in which the two SCOTS
yvilI figure against a British pair wlli
nrobablv be played prior to the cham
pionship.
Armour and Cruickshank viii pair
against Walter Hagen and Gene sara
1en two noted rivals Of the INKS, IN
q best bali match at the Gongresslo,naI ma,
Country Club May 8. The GATE Mas
heen set and many details arranged,
5f1,t certain matters are to be smoothed
cnt with Hagen. The match is on,
however. according to Armour ana w1li
be played on the May date.
announcements of three of the early
Snring Golf tournaments have been
TnaiIpd out to members of local CLUBS
81 the mast week. The first event OF
the season is the Spring affair OF the
Town and Country Club to De heid
ADril u. 2s. 20 and 80 on the attrac-
five nine-hole layout near Bethesoa.
The second is the Spring event or the
washington Golf and Country Club, to
be nlayed over the rolling layout az
Rixev, Va, on May 4, s.. and Z. 81
The third of the list for which invi-
4atious have already been sent out is
the annual Spring classic of the Chevy
chase Club. to be held May II, II ana
IL over the historic course at CheVy
Chase. Nd La,
Al three tournaments doubtless VIII
attract the best amateurs about the
CAPITAL and several out-oftoWn en-
trants.
Rob Barnett of Chevy Chase came
within an inch of getting an ace on
the third hole at Burning Tree last
Friday afternoon in a match In Which
be ard Tom Armour of Congressional
finished all square with Fred Mcleod
of Columbia and Ralph Beach of Burn
ing Tree. Beach had the best score OF
the foursome, a -. Mcleod and Ar
mour were IA each and Barnett, de-
spite three brides. had n.
Indian Spring Club committees ap-
pointed two weeks ago have been
confirmed by the board Of governors
and are now functioning. FIVE
women are on the golf committee,
whose roster has already been pub
Ished. Chairman G.. Lea Stabler or
the house committee has selected the
following associates: Johnston +.
Zimmerman, A. Y. Bradley, M. A
O'Brien and Ray Happier. Chairman
Mccormack of the greens committee
is out of the city and has not yet
chosen the members of his committee.
Indian Spring recently has installed
a merit system for the caddieS or the
club by which caddies who perform
their duties in efficient fashion are to
be rewarded later in the year.
Three teams are tied for top place
in the two-man tourney at Indian
Spring. which will end July 2. They
are Roland Ray and Thomas A. Can't
well, p. B. Hoover Rnd J. r. Zimmer-
man. and H. S.. Pope and @. J. Null
roy. These teams have won both
matches played thus far. Several
teams have not registered win,
while others have won one and lost
one.
Results of the matches thus far
follow:
Ray defeated Allen 3 and ?; Cantwen de;
teated 4 Harris. I snd g. Best ball Ray and
Yea dsfs2isS Brownsa sTa and Best Hi5nHs ba
BreGRsa eamminFs aRa defeated Gassd Necarthy. and 4
Utz defeated Putnam. and 2. Best ball.
'oH5oag H6o9aT defeated se eiii 5snnings and 3; Zm
a9 s 4ooGeT aereafsdf aSd zmsrman kanplT and s. S'
.osd Pogs ds2ted sns es af ba pope a9
~ Wales walen defeated Grant. and 3: Hutchison
eefeatef Hesp6 / up. Best oail' "sieh anu
Togei defeated Tilleya up: Nsxtisld de; de,
SAi1'ti9 ca9t9eli deaieated Davis. and Z Ray de-
wsn ard Ray 5 and A.
Jtz defeated Mihills, and 2; Mccarthy .,S l,!
defeated Obriep. 3 and 2. Best ball. all even.
steele defeated DgKs. 2 and Cornell de-
fsate1 Riogdan. and 8. Best bali, Steele
Poley eeteatei lockwood. 3 and J.: Ferher
defeated .Klucken. up. Best ball. Foley
Morsa defeated Allen 3 and / Harris de;
feated Comp, and /. Best ball. morse ana
Jennings defeated ,walen; ] up;, Heap de-
Seated Kappler. and 8. Best ball. Jennings
Pope defeated clark 4 and 8: MulToy, won
5rSih aRa M1Irov iihqssr 4 os and iaui' 3. "s''
I FoieS detcaied iMecarter. 3 and l lKlgeken
a8g a51fizia KlacIIan 5anii and d's De''' Da-''
stantz defeated Tiiler. 3 and p sts6l,nr ,td,3
,5 Hoover ra adetes,ed GrsnRt. 2. m: zinmerne,,p
Hoover and Zimmerman. 4 and 3.
I'm line with the forthcoming appear
ance of a volume on putting written
by w. L. Hillyer of Chevy Chase, Rob-
ert T. Barnett, the Chevy Chase pro-
fessional, believes that If the present
leaders Of the game devoted as much
time and thought to the theory and
practice of putting the scores made in
tournaments would be truly astound-
ing. Instead of struggling to break
10, the Jones, Hagens, Diegels and 9TH
ers would be trying to break CO." Bar
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