Evening star., 1928-04-15
MEMBERS THERE ANXIOUS
TO MASTER LINKS GAME
Over 100 Have Joined Recently and Sylvester, New
Professional, Is Kept Busy Giving Lessons.
Other News of Golfers.

! to the Catoctin Country Club near
| Frederick tomorrow TO play in an in
| formal sweepstakes event arranged by
! Willie Schrieber, the club pro.
The Washington Dental Golf Associa-
ton will hold its monthly event next
Wednesday over the course of the In
dian Spring Golf Club.
Putting on keen green's is hard
enough. but the man who can putt on
green's completely soaked with water is
somewhat of a seven days wonder. DR..
Bertram Taylor DR. James r. McClen-
ahan. J, NJ. Willis and the writer play
ed through the rain of last Wednesday.
and the putting of DR.. Taylor on green's
an inch deep in water was something
marvellous to behold So hard was the
rain that the ordinary draining process
could not carry of the water fast
enough. and several of the greens were
an inch deep in casual water. On the
18th Or. Taylor hit the cup for 2,
his ball skipping gayly across the sur
face OF the water to the cup, and on
the i4th he holed lS-footer through
the water for par S-downhill, too,
A "surpiSe" tournament, the nature
of which has not been disclosed. is
planned for the first tourney of the
Women's District Golf Association at
the Washington Golf and Country Club
Tuesday. Miss Dorothy White of Wash
ington, women's District titleholder
will be in charge Of the affair. The
idea. as explained by Mrs w. S. Corby,
president of the association. is some
what OF an experiment, and any wom-
an interested in golf. whether attached
to club or not. may enter the tour
nament.
Mrs. Corby urges that all entrants
be at the club prepared TO play by Q
O'Clock Tuesday morning. Entries may
be telephoned to her at Wisconsin
2G54. and must be in hand by 10 pm.
Monday. A luncheon viii follow the
tournament.
Jesse l.. Lasky of the films Is quite
a good golfer. He played Friday at
Congressional with Jimmy Donaldson.
the Fenimore. N. Y. pro, and registered
an 81. Tommy Armour played nine
holes with LaSSy, his son, and Donald
son.
The national amateur telegraph golf
tournament, held successfully last year
on several hundred courses. is to be
played again this year on September
/. 2. and f. according TO announce
ment last night from headquarters OF
the Forty Thieves. the national aSso-
citation sponsoring the event. Players
viii telegraph their scores 10 central
control station, where pairings for the
next day viii be made up and tcle-
graphed to winners in the rounds OF
the previous day.
The tourney is open to all amateurs,
and the qualifying round viii be held
the week OF August 6. Every player
entered in the qualifying roun,i, no
matter what his score, viii be permitted
TO play in the competition. Trophies
valued at more than $4,000, according
10 the advance notice, will be awarded
in 100 classes.
Out at Columbia Winter rules arc
played in a far different manner from
their use at other clubs. At most places
the player is allowed to tee up the
ball only on the fairway. II the bail
goes in the rough or in a hazard II
must be played where 1t lies.
But Fred Mcleod has interpreted the
rules of golf TO mean that the ball may
be teed up in the rough or In the fair
way under the Winter rule provision.
holding that the golf rule book makes
no mention OF the rough, and that any
part Of the golf course not clearly de-
fined as a hazard Is included under
the Winter rule provision permitting the
player Is entitled TO tee Il up In the fair
that the rough during the period when
Winter rules are In force means very
little, anyway, in so far as the lie of
the ball is concerned. and that II works
no hardship on the other player 10 tee
up the ball in the rough when the
player is entitled tee 1t up in the fair
Tsz 4En xySM Ass ANx.a AF
Congressional agrees with him. hold
ing that the rules do not specify the
rough as hazard on a golf course.
Twice in recent weeks Miller b. Ste
vinson has driven the green at, the
seventeenth at Columbia and hn3ed his
putt for an eagle 2 The hole demands
a carry Of about $50 yards to reach the
hilltop green.
Walter r. Hall Of Rock Greek Park
and Mel Shorey Of East Potomac Park.
both professionals. are 10 play friendly
36-hole match within a few days. Re-
ports that Hall and 6horey are not on
the best Of terms and that such q
match is In the nature Of a "grtidge"
engagement are said by both 10 be en-
tireIy erroneous
That well known Washington Colt
and Country Club duo-Dr. J. T. Me-
Clenahan and John /. Power-~Were
thoroughly 2ubdued yesterday By their
latest iaaIiengers-CharleS H. Doing,
jT.. and George r. Howard. The lat
ter pair won by something like and
5, although the exact details OF the
trimming have not been Forthcoming.
Eot satisfied with the verdict Me-
Clenahan and Power are back for more
today In y match scheduled with the
same pair
The newly made ground between the
seventeenth and eighteenth fairWays at
Washington. which has been classed as
under repair for several months, II
now In playing condition and no longer
may the player who pulls the ball from
either tee bring IL out In the fairway
| 10 have clear shot. The greens COM
rnittee yesterday posted notice that
the ground under repair rule has been
suspended and thai the ball must be
played where 1t Hes.
Construction Of the new sixteenth
tse al Congressional makes the hole
much, improved affair from every
@sIppgHlts IDeTe u not 10 Muen pos
sjbiiity that Il pulled ball will 20 OUT
Of bounds, but the new tee seems ID
/ bring the traps ~ the right of the
green out more Probably fewer balls
viii be In the left trap and more In the
| riahthand bunkers The shot Is i'm !.
proved because the player ia sf1Qotin2
against tbs slope Of the green instead
/ Of across II.
Washington IL goinR ahead With its
/ ire soddlng program, and yesterday club
| IgembtTs played from q newly sodded
! seventeenth tee on this hole where
J many players Use an iron for the tee
shot