Evening star., 1928-03-16
AL MACKENZIE DISPLAYING
OLD-TIME FORM AT GOLF

bert MacKenzie's return from the
depths Of mediocrity to the heights or
skill he once enjoyed.
John r. Mccormick has been nomi-
mated by group OF some ~ lndlail
Spring Club members for the post OF
vice president of the club. and Will run
In opposition to John c, Wineman. VINO
was nominated on q ticket drawn up
three weeks ago by q committee headeo
by James Schick. Under the lndlan
Spring Clubs constitution. nominations
for officers other than those made by
the nominating committee. may De
made on petition OF 20 members at least
two weeks in advance of the annual
meeting. which Is to be held this year on
March 81.
Mccormick Is chairman OF the club
green's committee and has been promi-
ncntly Identified with Indian Spring
activities since It's organization.
C. Chester Caywood heads the slate
as the nominee for president.
Unless heavy rain today turns the
greens into quagmires, golfers OF the
indian Spring Club. after having been
playing temporary greens during most
of the Winter. will be put back on the
regulars tomorrow. Greenkeeper watson
SAYS the putting surfaces at Indian
Spring have wintered we'll and are in
unusually good condition at this season
of the year. He says the bent grass,
with which the green's are sown. Will
begin to grow shortly and that the
Indian Spring green's, as well as those
at other clubs about the Capital. will
take on the usual emerald appearance
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the Winter season when the grass lies
dormant.
On April /. green fees at the Indian
Spring Club are to be raised to 81 on
week days and SIS on Saturday, Sunday
and holidays.
Manager Al Farr Of Rock Creek Park
is planning TO stage an exhibition match
within a few weeks, securing two we'll
known amateurs and a pair Of profess
sionals to show the Muny links players
how 1t Is done.
J. Monro Hunter. new professional at
Indian Spring. is expected to arrive In
Washington tonight or tomorrow. Mo-
toring TO the Capital from Milwaukee.
he ran into bad weather and was de-
layed in Ohio. He expected to reach
the club yesterday.
Columbia has just completed an i'm
provement on the course that Is expect
ed to speed up play this year. Under
the direction of the green's committee,
the ditch crossing the twelfth and thir-
teenth fairways has been tiled and
turfed over. so that where water for
Ia a
rough. to be sure. but not the water
hazard of other days. 1t will do away
with much of the delay brought about
by lost balls and balls dropped back OF
the hazard.
In filling up the grassy sink on the
fifteenth fairway at the Washington
Golf and Country Club the edges OF the
ditch for few yards along the fill have
been banked tip so that q ball will not
so easily find Its way into the ditch
which parallels the fairway on this diff
ficult hole.
Miami's latest extravaganza for those
who say 1t with flying golf balls Is due
to open tomorrow over the La GorCe
course near the Florida city. A sweet
little purse totaling $4,000 has been
pub NY AVA L4lC kbIiliE pIlSSibn VA PAC~
fessional procliVities. with $4,000 going
to the winner. or course. the tourney
viii attract all the very best OF the pro-
fessional talent. including Tommy Ar
mour of Congressional. Tommy. by the
way. has been rather ineffective during
the Winter campaign. In 80 far as win
aing tournaments Is concerned. although
he has usually managed to get III the
money During the last Winter sea-
son he won two major tournaments In
the South and West, and he and Bobby
Cruickshank annexed the international
four-ball.
During the Winter campaign which Is
drawing TO close Tommy has failed 10
annex any of the events arranged for
the transforming pros IN the West and
South. and even lost his four-ball title
to Sarazen and Farrell. SaraZen seems
10 have arrived at the crest of skill
which marked his 1922 campaign. when
he won the national open.