Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
ROLLING ROAD CLUB
EVENT OPENS PLAY
D. C. Amateur Championship
at Congressional Is High
Spot of Season.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

again Is advancing upon the
golf legions of Washington. An
August without O big tourna-
nlent has passed and with the
coming of expected cool weather cIuO
and invitation events again dot the
golf calendar as thick as missed puts
! In a buffers match. Not only do all
the clubs have tournaments Of one sort
or another for their own members only.
but no fewer than four big open events
are listed along the golf horizon as
Summer passes swiftly into Fall ana
the legions of the links who do not
play during the warm months take
their implements in hand again to
make ready for the Fall golf wars.
The Rolling Road Golf Club Of Ca
louisville, Md, takes the lead in usher
ing in the golf tournament season for
the months of October and September
with its invitation tournament. billed to
start over the Rolling layout between
Baltimore and Ellicott City next We'd
nesday. Quite a group OF washington
players will make the trip over to Ca
louisville to play In the event, although
many of the entrants from the Capital
will be from the Indian Spring Golf
Club, which has been closer to Rolling
Road, through the medium Of frequent
team matches, than any other wash
ington club.
BannOckburn Invitation Event.
No sooner will the Rolling Road tour
nament be completed than most OF the
golfers about Washington will be pre-
pairing for the Bannockburn invitation
tournament. the irst OF three major
events to be held In the Capital area
during the Fall. The Bannockburn
tourney, won last year by Frank K.
Roesch, Is scheduled for September
1921, inclusive, and entries close Sep
TENDER Is. This tournament will be
conducted on the so-called Pinehurst
system, in which all entrants must
qualify In the flight rated by their
hRndicaps.
The following week will come the
high spot Of local golf for the year, with
the playing of the District amateur
championship at the Congressional
Country Club. Miller B. STEVENSON Of
Columbia Is working himself into first
class playing condition to defend the
title he won last year over his home
course, and will take Q lot Of beating
sional. He won the Congressional in
vitation tournament last June. The
dates for the District titular event are
September IS and 26.
The following week the Manor Club
swings into action with its first annual
invitation tournament, an affair that
will formally introduce the course
through the pine woods to most Of the
local golfers. Many of them have heard
of the difhculties Of that new first nine
at Manor, but only q comparative few
have sampled its terrors. The fun will
come in the qualifying round rs the
field tries to avoid the woods, and sue
ceeds only in getting into other sorts
OF trouble. Doubtless September will
bring the usual late rains, which will
make the Manor Club course o much
better layout than 1t Is now, for fast
fa1rwayS do not make Manor any easier.
The dates for this tournament are Oc-
tober as, inclusive, and Chairman Ray
F. Clarity and his golf committee as
SociateS are leaving no stone unturned
to make the first invitation tourna-
ment Of the club q record breaker for
hospitality and good sport.
Annapolis Roads Plan Tourney.
The Annapolis Roads Golf Club, owner
OF the great course down on Chesapeake
Bay, where the Severn runs into the
bay, already is planning q tournament
for October, although the dates have
not definitely been decided upon, The
event probably will be q two-day medal
play affair, in order to get away from the
stln formality OF match play tournaments
as they usually are held about WASH
tngton and Baltimore. It will be strictly
. personal invitation event, with invita-
tons limited because the course is a
nine-hole affair and It will be impos-
sible to start more than IS or 80 play
ers over q nine-hole layout during the
short days of october.
In between these larger affairs are
echeduled many purely club events.
Indian Spring has an impressive Fail
NHhNnllIn ha re c1a
and Country Club. Columbia plans to
hold its club championship as early In
October as possible. And during the
month OF September the woman play
ers will not be idle. Next Tuesday they
are to play in q miniature tournament
at Congressional and the following
Tuesday Mrs Frank r. Keefer Of Chevy
Chase Will lead group of eight woman
players TO Richmond to play q team
OF golfers Of the fair sex from the Coun-
try Club Of Virginia, led by Mrs.
Charles Withers.
During the same week, the women's
championship of the Chevy Chase Club
Is to be played, and within q short
time the star golfers Of the city will
engage in warfare for The Evening
Star Trophy. held by Winifred Faunce
will be played at the Chevy Chase Club
October 7 and 8. And we must not
overlook the Army golf championship,
billed to be played over the course of
the Army. Navy and Marine Corps
Country Club beginning September "a
and continuing for five days. Yes, golf
about Washington Is due for a busy
time during the coming month and
half.
Junior Journeys This Week.
SO thick and fast do the tournaments
come that junior title holders Of two
clubs will be crowned next Tuesday,
when the junior championships Of the
Washington Golf and Country and
the Indian Spring clubs will be settled.
James g. Drain will defend his junior
title at the Washington club, and Roger
Peacock, recently crowned king of the
District juniors, will defend the honors
he won last year at Indian Spring.
washington has another highly in
teresting golf event scheduled for set
Element during the month-the Father
and Son tournament-for which entries
close today. Drawings are to be made
be played on until the event u con.
cluded This is a two-ban fcursorae
affair, each competitor playing alter.
nate strokes. The first week in Octo.
Der will see the playing Of the club
championship and the event for the
Birney cup ct washington. A qualify
ing round Of 10 holes win be played on
Saturday, September %, or Sunday.
September 20, and the first match play
ro,Irsd will be played on October /, with
The firal round for the title, now held
by Frank K. Roesch, to be decided on
october 8.