Evening star., 1928-10-29
Sixteen Chevy Chase Golfers
Paired for Siamese Cup Play

! third low net prize. Earl McAleer was
the only other contestant to break 30.
E. E. Swan scored an ace on the
twelfth hole at the Manor Club yeSter-
day, holing his tee shot on this 205-
| yard affair.
o. C. Murray got a scintillating half
on the seventeenth hole in a match the
other day at Washington with Maj.
E. w. Cushing. The latter had played
his second shot to the green with a
holeable putt left for birdie 8. Muir
ray, meanwhile, had lost shot in the
fairway and played his third shot into
a bunker at the left of the green. He
holed out from the bunker, and Cush-
J ing missed his birdie, the hole being
halved in par As.
Leo DiegeI and Gene Sarazen were
victorious in matches with Baltimore
professionals at the Rolling Road Club
yesterday, defeating Jimmy Roche, the
Middle Atlantic professional match play
Champion. and Charles Betschler, in
the morning tilt by 8 and 2, and down.
ing Carroll T. McMaster and Glenn
Spencer in the afternoon by and /.
Diegel registered 68 in the morning
match.
This business of observing the rules
of golf is a relative thing. Funda-
mentally the rules rest solely In the
mind of the player, and with the as
sumption that every golfer is gentle
man, it is seldom that golf fails to
reveal other than the finest kind of
Sportsmanship. Take the case of Ban
nockburn, where the E3v layout of the
club is rounding into shape after a
year or two of strug cling with diff
cult conditions of terrcin and contour.
Bannockburn's local rules are most
flexible, but we venture to say not
golfer in the clubs membership takes
advantage of the unusual code which
prevails there. For example, there
really isn't trap on the course in so
far as the playing OF the game is con-
traps are not hazards and that the
ball may be dropped in or behind the
trap. Another says the lie may be i'm
proved anywhere on the course, in
rough or on fairway. But 1t won't be
long before such rules go by the board
and the ball must be played where 1t
lies.
Here are Bannockburn's present
rules:
1.-The lie may be improved Except in
water hazards and on the putting
greens) within a clubs length, not
nearer the hole. This rules does not
permit removal of the ball from the
rough or the fairway, although the lie
may be improved in either location.
Springs and streams are water
hazards from bank to bank.
Roads and drainage bitches are not
hazards. Lift without penalty.
Traps are not hazards. Improve the
lie within a club length, not nearer the
hole, within trap or back of trap, with
out penalty.
Places marked ground under repair
are not hazards. Drop without penalty.
"Out of bounds beyond the stakes on
No. &c. loss of distance only.
Lost ball-Another ball may be
played from where it Is estimated the
lost ball may be found with penalty
of one stroke.
Mud may be removed without
penalty.
Ball on green-A ball party i'm
bedded in putting green or ball on
a green in hole which interferes with
the putt may be shifted not nearer the
cup, just enough to avoid such hole.
This does not permit player to change
the location of the ball to avoid a more
distant obstacle or hole in the line OF
putt, except for avoidance of casual
water, as in the United States Golf AS
sociation rules.
"a bali driven from the tee on No.
IL beyond the line of stakes from the
stable to the ditch, may be brought
back into the fairway without penalty"