Evening star., 1928-04-08
lROR MUST VISIT ENGLAND
= : !. FOR STORIES, PRO- AYERS
Stellar Amateur Is Virtually Compelled to Enter Brit
ish Open Is Hint--Local Clubs Prepare for
Great Activity This Season.

! having Just inaugurated a new starting
/ system. is watching the effect of the
new twelfth tee on the scores made over
| the rolling course across the river. The
new tee makes tfe hole about 20 yards
longer and converts the second shot
/ from an easy maShie into No. 4 iron
! or even a midiron, II may become a
I par S hole in the minds Of many of
, The Washington players this season.
Making ready for the Spring season.
/ due to start with. the qualifying round
] for the French high Commission cup
next week. the golf committee OF Chevy
Chase Club has put in use several tenn
porary greens while the regular green's
are being treated 10 put them in per-
feet shape for the season opening.
Six members ef Congressional mo-
tnred to Richmond last Thursday tn
watch the final day of the tourney.
They were Mrs, II. A. Knox, Mrs. j. NJ.
HAYNES, Mrs. r. l.. Rose. Mrs. L. B.
Chapman. r. L. Rose and j. NJ Meegan.
The women. all golfers and all inter
estcd In women'S golf affairs had
learned that the wolnen's Middle At
lantic championship may 50 TO Rich
mond club this year or may so To the
! Princess Anne Club of Virginia Beach.
I ffG TWO pIGftVuS Nudk kktdAAlCkttN at0NN
been held at Baltimore Country Club
and Congressional Country Club.
George T. Cunningham. former mcr1-
Der of Bannockburn and at one time
one of the star amateur PLAYERS OF the
city. is immensely pleased with his new
berth as course supervisor for the Coun-
try Club of Virginia and is looking for
ward to the day when many OF his
Washington friends will be able to visit
the new course of the club on the James
River above Richmond.
Professional golfers of the Mid-At-
iantic section viii gather at Columbia
Country Club tomorrow to play an lS-
hole sweepstakes contest and elect Of
fcers for the season. A dinner viii be
hold at the clubhouse tomorrow night.
Manor Club is planning novel party
to celebrate the new locker room. which
is to be formally opened next sunday
night. Down where the golf stories viii
fiy thick and fast in the days TO come
and most of the talk will be OF missed
puts and topped tee shots. the plemberS
and their wives and guests will dedicate
the new locker room with a dance. The
event will mark the completion of the
first item in an extensive improvement
program at the club. which includes
construction of q new dining room, en-
tiargement Of the ballroom and compile
ton OF q new nine holes. making 2T-
hole golf course and one Of the largest
golf layouts in this part of the country.
Sam Miller, major domo of the locker
room at East Potomac Park. is keeping
quiet about the entrants in the mara
thon golf event TO be held at the down
river course on May /. but lockerToom In
formation has 1t that three or four en-
trants. in addition to Bill Upton and
Larry Day. will be among those who
start out in the gray dawn OF May
Day 20. shatter the District marathon
record. Owen Evans. q tall lad who
played something more than 200 holes
last Fall In one day. intends TO enter
the event and hopes TO outlast the other
competitors.
The southpaw golfer is at last to
come into his own. locally. DR.. L. A.
Reeves, one of the left-handed players
at Indian Spring, has put up trophy
70 be competed for by southpaws from
any club in the city. Details Of the
tourney. which ig TO be handicap af-
fair. viii be arranged later by the In
dian Spring golf committee and DR..
Reeves.
Manager Leofiier Of East Potomac
Park. spurred on by the complaints
tEat holes In the sand of the bunkers
have not been filled up. intends 70 push
vigorously campaign TO see that every
player replaces sand he has displaced
either by stepping in trap or by play
ing from the hazard.
Many of the holes remain untitled be-
cause of the ignorance or carelessness
of the golfers who play from the traps
II reminds us Of part Of the poem Of
that ininlitab.e golf ballad writer Ed
die Guest, which runs something like
this:
The proof of golfer. now mark this.
my boy.
rs the care which he takes Of the
course"
Indian Spring has decided TO run It's
championship tournament tinis year in
fights arranged according TO handicap,
instead of the system m use last year.
when any man could qualify In any
fight Players with handicaps Of 10 or
! under are to be required 70 qualify in
the first flight. which viii have but
eight competitors. while 10 win qualify
] in the other flights, according 10 handi-
caps. None may qualify In division
/. higher than their handicap rating. The
{ NeEOfl0 HlEnI Will DC UlN1E I'D DL AflpSC
I from 1 70 Is: the third flight from IS
j 10 10; the fourth flight from 20 10 rs,
/ and the fifth fight over rs
The club invitation tourney at Indian
! Spring Is 10 conclude this year on Fri-
/ day, instead Of Saturday as In the past,
/ ii being the purpose Of the golf commit
+ tee To leave the course free for the
members on the week end Of the tourna-
nlent
/ Herbert r.. Shannon Ia looking forward
/ To the day when ne, after long months
Of waiting. will preside over the festivi-
/ ties Of the eBoGterE Club" an or
ganization within ti1e Columbia Club,
rapidly becoming nationally famous.
Several of the putting greens at
Washington are being reaodded around
the edges. where the grass has either
been Winter killed or has failed " come
] up through the dfOuMbt OF the early
I. Spring The ninth. fourteenth and six
tsenth have already been treated In this
way.
/ CHEVY CHASE SENIOR
| GOLFERS TO BE BUSY
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