Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-31

scores of all four players may be exactly
Last tuesday Frank K. Roesch. the
Washington club champion, and Ru-
dolph 4. Harrell of washington went
over to Burning Tree to play Lieut.. q
B. Sherwood of Chevy Chase and Wal
ter w. Cunningham of Burning Tree
THE first nine was halved In the lest
hall match, and Roesch and Cunning
ham and Sherwood and Harrell, all Oh
whom had individual matches. haiveu
them all.
The second nine was all even up to
the eighteenth hole, where Sherwood
holed a 15-foot putt to win the match
,lp. Yet Roescf and Cunningham
haiyed their individual match. ano
Sherwood and Harrell also halved. the
latter coming to the last hole up on
Sherwood. y,
'Twas quite golf match, too, for u,
five consecutive holes four brides were
repistered--twoN by Cunningham and
two by Harrell. Cunningham and Sher-
wood had q best bali Of 20. while Har-
rell and Roesch had best ball OF IL
The best bali Of the foursome was 61--
five under par--and not so bad over 2
slow course, with part Of the round
played through rainstorm. During
the match neither side was more than
i'm. and in the individual iT1atchesl mo
man was more than up. Seven birdies
were made during the round.
Members OF the golf committee OF the
washington Golf and Country Club VIII
gather at dinner ut the clubhouse az |,
o'clock Tuesday night, and later VIII
discuss details of the coming invitati0n
tourney of the Virginia ORGANIZATION
which win open the golf season about
washington. The tourney viii start
April so and run through May 3.
Aithoush Roland 4. Mackenzie Of
Columbia has not played golf IN the
local tournaments for four years, ue-
voting his time to the national events
his passing from washington VIII pe
deplored by many golfers around we
Capital. A more popular LAD mas never
swung q club, nor one who TOOK n ~
many high honors In the game WITH
more becoming grace. AS memper o.
two Walker Cup teams Roland Mac
Kenzie has carried the name of the Ma.
tons Capital to the very forefront o.
the game. and his deeds In the national
amateur championship have made him
one Of the brightest stars OF the links
he VIII leave washington on April s II
take UP residence In New York.
Maurice J. Mccarthy, captain q
Georgetown universities golf team, 4
In New York, where he was called bS
the sudden illness Of his mother. He
Is expected to be back IN Washington
To play In scheduled exhibition match
with another amateur against y. Mon.
70 Hunter and GeOrGe Diffenbaugh 81
Indian Spring on April II. The FIRST
match viii be played at washington
with another the following Sunday q
indian Spring.
Because Or wet weather the bal
sweepstakes event scheduled ct Con.
gressional yesterday, to mark the for
NAL opening Of the regular putting
greens. was not held Only few
members turned out for the event and
sandy Armour, club professional, an.
lnounced the tourney will be held today
The scheduled 1S-h0Ie sweepstaxe.
tourney Of the Middle Atlantic Profes.
| sional Golfers Association, which wa
listed for tomorrow at the Town al1t
Country Club. has been postponed nnti
/ April s. Professional entrants from
| Baltimore asked that the event Be
| postponed because they believed Easter
Monday would md d great man,
golfers using the courses around 81!
Monumental City. With this reqties
Arthur 3. Thorn Of the Town eIst
Country club. over whose course th!
event Was sehedalsd yead ily asq'zlsscss.