Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-15

Tomorrow a group of amateur and
professional golfers will gather at the
Burning Tree Club to compete in an
amateur-pro tourney staged by the Mid
ISOLATION, and on Tuesday a small group
Of woman players from Capital clubs
are scheduled to take part in a team
match at the Country Club of Vir-
ginia at Richmond. Later in the week
the woman's championship of the Chevy
Chase Club will be played. with the
Sheridan Cup In competition for the
first time. Bannockburn's tourney will
start on Wednesday and run through
the rest of the week, with the semi
ANAL and Anal rounds scheduled for
next Saturday. Five flights will qualify
for the match play rounds under the
: Bannockburn system Of forcing the
entrants TO qualify In the flights to
which they are rated by their club
handicaps. And next week the pick of
the local amateur flock will migrate to
Congressional, where they will try to
divest Miller B. STEVENSON of his District
amateur crown. They will have hard
job to do that for STEVENSON Is at his
best and he likes the Congressional
layout.
The tournament for the practitioners
trophy, open to employees of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, will be q
combined medal and match play af-
fair this year, and will be played at
the Indian Spring Golf Club Septem-
Der "a, 26 and ~. Instead of the Gus
tomary 36-hole medal play event, the
special committee in charge of the
tournament has arranged for a 36-hole
qualifying round on September "a, with
the eight players who make the lowest
net scores to be paired for the match
play rounds on September 20 and ~.
The first two match play rounds will
be at Is holes on September IS, and
will be followed by 36-hole final on
September ~. Full handicaps will be
allowed in the medal play event, while
three-fourths of the difference in handi-
rounds. The trophy was donated to
the commission by attorneys who prac-
tice before the rail regulatory body,
and the winner will receive q replica.
Numerous other prizes, in addition to
the main prize, will be competed for
in the tourney. The special committee
in charge of the event is composed of
r. K. White, chairman: o. E. Sweet.
H. D. Folsom, Eugene r. Hendley, Fe-
lix z. Early and G. S. Douglas.
Every once in a while Harry D. CASH
man of Washington decides that the
men with whom he. plays are little
better than he is, and so he drops down
into q class of players who don't score
quite as we'll as those with whom he has
been playing. For q while CaShman
played in what he called the class AA
leagues, but he slowly dropped back into
the class B leagues, and finally landed
down In class D company. These terms
were all applied by himself. Perhaps a
reason for his drop from grace was the
fact that he lost II straight matches,
which Is enough to make any man
choose his golfing company closely, for
such q string of losses runs into money.
The other day he was playing in
what he terms lower league company.
A four-ball match was preparing to
drive from the seventeenth tee when
eastman and his playmateS were put
ting on the sixteenth green at Washing
ton. eastman came of the green with
a broad grin on his face. indicating
what John I. Power calls IAN orchard
finish" Comdr. c. T. Lynes said to
him: well. Harry, you look happy.
Did you just win a match in there
among the apple trees?"
Yes. Ted" eastman replied. "At
last I'm back in the right company. I'm
playing in league now where you can
win hole with 6 and they like it."
Qualifying rounds for two club
championships are being played today.
Out Mt the Manor Club the golfers of
the Norbeck institution are playing in
an 18-hole medal play round which
will decide the makeup of the cham.
pionship flight, while members of the
Indian Spring Golf Club are playing
TODAY In the MIA lifviu0 round for fha