Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-04
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four players watched and waited for the
ball to drop on the green, which should
have happened, as the ball was well hit.
But 1t did not come down, and finally
1t was discovered perched in the fork Of
an outside limb. Bill couldn't climb the
tree and play the bail, so a caddie
finally shook 1t down. OF course, Cox
lost the hole.
With more than 70 entrants prepar-
Ing for a shot at the four-man team
which will represent Washington in the
national public links championship at
st. Louis next month, the public courses
at Rock Creek Park and East Potomac
Park are busy places these days, as the
prospective Qualifiers sharpen up their
strokes for the trials next Monday. Two
separate 36-hole qualifying rounds will
be played, with the field split into two
parts, one at each public course. Two
players each from East Potomac and
Rock Creek Parks, will qualify for the
four-man team, and will Later play off
70 determine the team captain. The
low scorer among the four men who
make the team will head the Washing
ton team, whose expenses to st. Louis
Will be paid by S. G. Leoffler, conces-
sionnaire Of the public links in Wash
ington. The entry list this year is one
OF the largest of record and includes
several members Of former public links
teams, among them j. D. (Slim) Boyer
and G. M. Merrill. Several other former
members have Joined private clubs since
last year, and are not eligible for the
team this year.
DR.. T. j. W. Brown of Bannockburn,
course construction architect, has built
a very respectable golf course over the
hills and valleys in Loudoun County,
Va, near Purcellville, but, In the judg-
ment of most of the contestants from
Washington who played in the tourney
staged at Purcellville yesterday, he
might have made the layout better by
cutting the putting green's. The green's
were long and fuzzy and the ball took
funny hops on them until it was more
or less matter OF chance whether or
not six-foot putt found the bottom
Of the cup. The layout is well designed,
although lacking in traps, and affords
an interesting variety of shots. DR..
Brown has made consistently good use
of stream which wanders through the
property, affording several good carries.
The putting green's are large-too large,
in fact-and although the course is less
than year old, it is in fair condition.
More than two dozen WaShingtonians
travelled down TO Purcellville yesterday
at the invitation Of DR.. Brown to play
in a two ball combined score competi-
ton, with prizes for the winning team
and prize for the best individual score.
Frank K. .Roesch, the Washington
Golf and Country Club champion,
scored a n over the difficult layout to
win the individual prize, and the team
contest was won by Bryn Curtiss and
Roger Peacock of Indian Spring after
a tie at 157 with j. G.. and Thorpe
Drain of the Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club. Peacock had 70 and CurtisS
had 70, while Thorpe Drain had 70
and j. G. Drain had 70, to tie at 157.
On the nine-ho9e play-off Curtiss and
Peacock scored 40 and Al, while the
Drain brothers had As and IS, respec-
lively, the Indian Spring duo winning
hy 10 strokes.