Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-10
call them ringer tourna-
ments" and they are all that
the name implies. Foe IN ad-
l. dition to marking the particu-
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THEY call them ringer tourna-
ments" and they are all that
the name implies. Foe in ad-
l. dition to marking the particu-
lar score on the hole desired
with q ring around 1t to designate it
from the others, the scores themselves
are ringers" in that they stand out
from what might have been q mediocre
round Of golf.
Golf around Washington has gone
ringer" for during the dull months Of
the Summer, when manyeof the mem
bers Of the various clubs are out OF the
city, practically the only club COMPETE
tons are ringer tournaments" They
usually are played in this way: The
tournament will be set to start on July
10, and will end on a given date-pos-
sibly September 80. The competitors
will have all the time between those two
dates to turn in their best scores on any
hole on the golf course, the total OF
their best scores to make up the ringer
total.
During the Summer season, when
courses are fast, some amazing scores
are turned in in the ringer competitions
Eagles are made almost every day at
one or more of the golf courses about
Washington, and are duly recorded on
the ringer score sheet. Brides are
common occurrences, and 1t tS not al
together unusual for the leader in a
ringer" tournament to register score
down in the low COS or even In the high
SOS over . stretch OF two months A
couple Of years back the winner Of a
ringer" tourney at the Washington
Golf and Country Club turned in score
of Sc for the Is holes, which Is. Is
under par for the layout. Others turned
In scores below so.
Ringer tournaments now are In prog
ress at the following clubs: Burning
Tree, Washington. Chevy Chase, Ban
nockburn and Manor, and other events
along at the other clubs during the
Summer, when tournaments of this
character, spread over several weeks are
about the only club affairs that can be
held, because so many of the members
leave the city during the heated months.
Out at Washington, the golf COM
mittee is working the club ringer"
tournament in an annual manner. In
stead of permitting the members to
shoot unfortunately at the ringer"
prize every day in the week, competi-
ton in the tournament Is confined to
week ends and holidays.
The theory of the golf committee is
that those who can not play through
the week will thus be placed on q par,
in so far as rounds Of golf are concerned,
with those who can and do play during
the week
The Chevy Chase seniors have taken
up the ringer" tournament idea. and
now have such an event in progress
So have the women of the Chevy Chase
Club, while at Burning Tree the COM
petition in the ringer" tourney for the
Holly Slower cup finds Walter r.
Tuckerman well in the lead, with the
rest Of the field striving to keep pace
with him. Bannockburn has Just be-
gun q ringer" event for women, and a
similar tourney for men will come along
within a few days Indian Spring also
is planning to hold a ringer event.
The scheduled tourney Of the Middle
Atlantic Professional Golfers Associa-
ton. slated to be played at Indian
Spring next Monday, has been post
poned because many Of the local pros
intend to play in the Butchart- Nichols
tourney at Philadelphia on that day.
An attractive purse, with $3.50 In coin
Of the realm has been put up for the
pros to battle for.
Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes of Columbia
trounced Mrs. Stephen F. Colladay, q
clubmate, to win the ANAL round of the
first flight in the miniature tourney
staged by the Women's District Gold
Association yesterday at the Town and
Country Club. Mrs. Haynes won in the
final round by and ]. Mrs. Colladay
won the qualifying round with.a FIVE