The Washington times., 1929-06-22
CLUBS FACE
IN TEAM
MATCH
By George A. Simpson

pTOQuCe a SplrlGeu DTduu.
For one thing, Luther Flortne,
the southpaw club champion OF
Beaver Dam, will represent Ban
nockburn, having transferred his
allegiance only two weeks ago.
Then, Captains Byrne, of Ban
nockburn and White of Beaver
Dam may arrange their players In
order than one group will compose
four former baseball players. They
are Leo F.. Pass and Mel Handy,
OF Bannockburn and Martin r:
Mccarthy and Henry Phipps, Of
Beaver Dam, The latter is out
distanced by few when tee drives
are measured.
The matches, too, will pro-
vide warm battles as each side
win present players Of proven
ability.
Beaver Dam will have Jess Bag
gett, Russell Brown, Volmey
Burnett, Henry Phipps, Robert e.
Lewis, J.. Harry Byrne, David G..
Morris. John r. Miller, nj. A.
Maier, William G.. Cox, Jonathan
vessels, Ray Roche, Lindsey Stott,
Martin F. Mccarthy, Bton Moore
and Forrest Thompson.
Bannockburn will include John
C. Shorey, jr.; Bill Pendergast, Leo
r. Pass, Harry Krauss, John
Thacker, W. j. Strobel, c. c. Heath,
Middleton Beaman, e. c. Burgderf,
r. L. Burgdorf, A.. E. Alexander,
Luther Florine. J. B. Heron, Nor
man J.. Hall, Mel Handy, Major
Robb and w. Fred Byrne.
The Town and Country Club
golfers are host today and tomorrow
to the Lakeside golfers of Richmond,
Va. Formerly the Lynnhaven Club,
of Norfolk, figured in this annual
Richmond Norfolk Washington. inter"
} city series, but the Norfolk club
withdrew this year.
Bill Illch, captain of the Town
and Country Club golfers. has
selected Howard NOrdIinger,
Marx Kaufman. Morris Simon,
DR.. Melvin Fischer, Ralph
Goldsmith, Isaac Behrend. Al
bert Steinem. Leopold Freud
berg, Daniel Sherry and him.
self. The alternateS are VIII
lard GOldheim and Robert Baum.
Baum. :
The women golfers of both clubs
will also clash. Mrs. Jerome Never,
Mrs. Gilbert Hahn. Miss Bertha
Israel and Mrs. 1. Goldenberg will
A play for the host club.
Eighteen holes will be played each
day, with the matches starting this
afternoon at 1870 O'Clock and re-
sumed tomorrow morning at $3.50
o'clock. The Richmond delegation
leaves tomorrow afternoon for the
Virginia citadel.
Joe Kaufman, president of the
Town and Club country, will face
the president of the visiting organ
. ization in special 18-hole contest.
Kaufman hopes the leader of the
Lakeside party isn't a left-hander.
Arthur B. Thorn, pro at Town
. and Country, was also scheduled to
have tackled the Lakeside Coun-
try Club pro in another match, but
the Lakeside pro couldn't take leave
from his duties.
Mrs. Dorothy White Nicholson, of
the washington Golf and Country
Club, annexed the District women's
golf championship for the fourth
straight time by defeating Mrs. j.
Marvin Haynes, of Columbia Coun-
try Club, up, in the finals yester-
day at Columbia. Mrs. Nicholson
won out on the final hole.
Mrs. Nicholson first won the
crown by defeating Mrs. Haynes
i'm the 1926 finals, Mrs. Haynes
having gained the title the pre-
viOus year.
Yesterdays match was an in
teresting battle and drew the largest
gallery that has ever followed two
women golfers here. Mrs. Haynes
had a medal round of 83 while Mrs.
Nicholson turned in "a.
Mrs. Haynes gained an early lead
by taking~the first and third holes,
the champion finding the traps that
. SbHought her misfortune. Yet, Mrs.
Nicholson soon evened the duel and
forged ahead by adding the eighth,
and was l up at the turn for
s home. The incoming trip thrilled
the followers as the contestants
manifested keen golf and fought
stubbernly.
With the tenth and eleventh
halved, Mrs. Haynes caught her OPP
ponent on the twelfth, but a hooked
tee shot aon the thirteenth cost her
that hole.
"A dead pitch to the pin, after
.an overapproach, deadlocked the
rivals on the fourteenth, but Mrs.
Nicholson regained her margin of
! up on the fifteenth when Mrs
Hayes bungled two shots. A mis-.
directed drive on the sixteenth by
Mrs. Nichols permitted Mrs. Haynes
to again even the match.
Tney halved the seventeenth
in par as, each going beyond
}, the ditch and putting their Sec
0nds on the green atop of the
high mound.
1t looked as II the struggle would
bRo extra rounds as each bulleted
tee shots over 200 yards down the
middle on the eighteenth. Mrs.
Nichols, at this crucial stage. ap-
preached ten yards short of the
green.
Mrs. Hayes, worried by the
knowledge that she must equal her
opponents shot, placed herself un.
dag toe much mental pressure. The