Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-14
Z Y YITH the amateur title set
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n | tied for 1927 within a fort
" " night, golf around Wash
ington will resume tourna-
ment schedule to stage two
sectional championships and several
club titular events. The competitive
season about Washington and Balti-
more closed for the early season with
| the playing of the Maryland Country
| Club tourney late in July, and will
resume when the District junior cham
pionship will be played at the Town
and Country Club on September 9.
| Frank X. Roesch of the Washington
Golf and Country Club now holds the
| title.
The following week many OF the
! leading amateurs OF this section will
gather around the Bannockburn Golf
Club to play in the annual FAN
| tourney of the Glen Echo organization
| one Of the most popular events held
around the Capital. 1t will be played
this year over the completed 1S-hole
| layout of the Bannockburn club. Ten
days after the close of the Bannock.
burn affair a small field made up of
the best players about Washington
will gather at the Indian Spring Golf
Club to compete for the title of Dis
trict amateur champion now held by
George J. Voigt, which will be re-
klnquished by the Bannockburn player
unless the association changes its
stand on his eligibility
This event closes the competitive
season for the men except for the
club tournaments, but the following
week woman players from Maryland.
Virginia and Washington will gather
at the Congressional Country Club to
compete for the championship of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association. This
tourney, under present plans of the
association, will be held over the long
course of the Bethesda organization
on October S, 6, : and s. and probably
will attract the largest entry list ever
to start in the event. Mrs. T.. Boyd
Morrow of the Baltimore Country
Club Will defend the title she won last
year over her own course.
Dorothy White. holder of the wom-
ems District title, and Mrs. j. NJ.
Haynes, runner.up in both the Dis
trict and Middle Atlantic champion
ships last year, will be the outstand-
ing entrants from Washington.
A team mattel, between players from
the Maryland Country Club and the
Washington Golf and Country Club,
scheduled for today, has been post
poned because of inability of the Mary
land players to make the trip this
week end.
Earl McNeely. utility outfielder for
the Washington Base Ball Club. has
become known as n slugger with the
driver. Friday afternoon, while the
ball club was idling, McNeely played
at Congressional with T. A. Fiaherty,
and among the other hefty wallops he
hit was one from the sixth tee, which
reached the green $50 yards away.
He hit several others more than 300
yards.
The first eagle 2 ever recorded on
the 420-yard first hole at Indian Spring
has just come to light with the post
ing of the ringer score of c. H. Par
doe, a club member and low handl.
cap player. Pardoe's drive carried
Just short of the 250-yard mark and
ended about so yards from the green.
His pitch shot rolled into the cup.
A. McCook Dunlop and p. S. Rids
dale are tied for the lead in the ringer
tourney at Chevy Chase, both with
selected scores of 50. Dunlop has ne
gotiated both mines in 26. while Rids-
dale has 81 and 25 to his credit.
Harry Grant, secretary of the In
dian Spring Club. and Gene Larkin,
the caddy master, put across a fast
one on Eddie Towns, the club pro, the