Evening star., 1928-10-31
|HE semi-f1nal round in the two
man team championship at
Bannockburn has been reached
and finds Leo 2 Pass. former

%HE semi-final round in the two
man team championship at
Bannockburn has been reached
and finds Leo F. Pass, former
club champion, and E. M.
Weldon matched against the Carey
combination of father and son-Lloyd
and w. E. Carey, jr In the other
semi-final match Reid w. Diggs. the
course record holder, and l.. c. Leigh
will play against c. c. Heath and MAJOR
H Rcbb.
Pass and Weldon defeated l.. l..
Stratton and T. w. Mcclure, l up.
while the Careys dowr4ed r. G. Shorter
and E. J. DOYLE by and 4. The Dlggs-
Leigh combination defeated M. E.
Slindee and J. l.. Pherigo, 2 up, while
Heath and Robb defeated j. w. Reese
and j. M. Brinton, and 2.
Mrs. r. Won Schmeling is the new
woman champion at Bannockburn. Mrs.
Won Schmeling won the final round
from Mrs. C. B. Des Jardins, and l..
Mrs. F. c. Stratton won in the final OF
the consolation from Mrs. H. G. Wood
by 8 and s.
Only two matches remain to be played
today in the first round of the Slamese
Cup competition at Chevy Chase Club.
w. L. HlIlyer, who probably is one Of
the finest putterS in the game, plays
R. H. Jackson in one of them today,
while Gen. Charles G. Treat is opposed
to Mai. Walter G. Gullion in the other.
DR.. Thomas A. Claytor, who won the
Liberty Cup last week, was beaten yes
terday in the first round of the SiameSe
Cup event by l. j. Carr, the latter win
ming by and l. Walter r. Tucker
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Cup, won his match from E. M. Talcott
by and 4. Other results in the first
round of the competition follow:
D. D. L. McGrew defeated c. L. Marlatt,
8 ana 4; Lieut.. q. B. Sherwood deIeated
Hugh M Southgate, 2 up; E. O.. Wagenhorst
6 e'e3 s. Mevay csas ID detsated RafH n0 Wniteieg %
and ,.
Prizes won in the competitions this
year at Congressional Country Club are
to be distributed at a dinner to be held
at the clubhouse next Tuesday evening,
at which Chairman Mason of the golI
committee will preside. The final round
of the club monthly medal events is to
be played next Sunday. Winners of the
monthly medal events since May will
play IN an 18-hole competition, in two
classes Glass A will include all players
with handicapS from / to 18 and Glass
B will include all players with handi-
caps of 19 to SO, inclusive. First and
second prizes will be awarded in each
class.
Another golf course near Washington
which has enjoyed the sylvan solitude OF
woods and hills untouched by human
habitation is slowly being hedged in by
home builders. Washington Golf and
frx, lya Nr-lNi Io nf
the few layouts near the Capital where
the real estate developer has not busted
himself with subdivisions and model
homes, is slowly being built around. The
land paralleling the first hole is the
scene of the latest operations. For
years, after the player left the first tee
at Washington, he was far out in the
Virginia woods, without sign of
human habitation visible until he near
ed the tenth hole, and then he saw in
the distance, the home of Frank Lyon.
But few years ago two houses were
built bordering on the third fairway
Last Spring a house was built only a
niblick shot from the tenth green. and
now preparations are under way to
build near the first hole. Fortunately
the owner of the property abutting on
the twelfth .fairway has announced he
VIII keep the WOOQeu lanQ Tree from
construction work for many years u
come. Part of the eighth tee was taken
away when Arlington County widened
the roadway which runs back of the
course.
But even as it is today, Washington
is one of the few of the older layouts
around the Capital which is almost
purely nature and shows few of the
signs of the home building genius OF
man After leaving the fourth tee there
is no more of mans home construction
handiwork to be seen until the tenth
hole is reached.
Walter Hagen and John Farrell
champions of the two great golf1ne
countries-the United States and Great
Britain-now are teaming in an exhi-
bition tour of the West, which probably