Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-05
COLUMBIA GOLF TOURNEY
IS WEEKS FEATURE HERE

The week is full of golf, and first.
class golf, for every prominent player
in the Middle Atlantic section has en-
tered the Columbia tourney, and the
eyes OF hundreds of players in the
Capital will be focused tomorrow on
Philmont, Hermitage and Oakmont.
where Washington golfers are making
the attempt to qualify for the open
And the week will be brought to a fit
ting end with one of the big exhibit
ton matches of the current season
at the Congressional Country Club,
when Tom Armour and Bob Cruick-
shank will meet George Duncan and
Archie Compston. the British pair.
So successful was the first tourney
of the Interdepartmental Golf League
last week at the Manor Club that
plans already are afoot to duplicate il
on a bigger scale next year. The tour
ney was carried through without a
hitch because of the careful and pains
taking preparations Of the executive
committee of the league. The results
showed how skillful some of the play
ers in the tourney are, for 145 for Sc
holes. even over so short a course as
that Of the Manor Club, is fast enough
for any company. NJ. A. Shipley and
George Wadsworth will play off their
tie for the individual championship
shortly. The State Department team
was a dark horse in the team compe-
tition, but moved serenely through the
field to win the first leg on the Mellon
trophy.
Manor, by the way, has just demon
strated what energy and money will
do. Two weeks ago the fairway of
the eighth hole was very nearly a
morass. criss-crOssed with bitches and
so soft a ball buried out of sight. The
green's committee, seeing the Interda-
partmental tourney soon to come, got
busy and tiled the bitches so efficiently
that the fairway was almost baked out
by last Thursday.
The golf committee of the Columbia
Country Club will be hard at work to.
day making pairings of the more than
300 entrants in the tourney which
opens Wednesday. Columbia, judge
on the size of the field, appears to hold
the most popular tournament around
Washington. Last year and the year
before the field exceeded 300 players
and this year it will be as large.
The tournament schedule for the re-
mainder of the season for the Argyle
Country Club was announced last
night by the golf committee, headed
by Forrest Thompson. The schedule
follows: June II, Scotch foursome
tournament; June 1919, team match
with Beaver Dam at Argyle, 1870 pm;
July "a, 36-hole handicap tournament;
July 1917, monkey tournament; July
"a, team match with Indian Spring
at Argyle; August Z, tombstone tour
nament; August 81, team match with
Manor at Manor; August 20, father
and son tournament; September 3-5,
club championship Qualifying rounds,
first round to be completed before Sep
TENDER 10, second round to be COM
pleted before September Is; September
II, semi-f1nals, club championship;
September Is, finals, club champion
ship; october 1 and 2, 36-hole handicap
tournament; October 9, team match
with Indian Spring at Indian Spring;
October 1916, handicap tournament;
October %, putting contest; November
II, turkey tournament.
III. b. Leary, Jr., has a new way to
play the second hole at the Manor
Club. He did it the other day and he
recommends it as steady practice.
Leary's tee shot hit tree and kicked
on to the green. He holed the putt
for a deuce,