Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-15
FIRST CLUB HERE
TO ESTABLISH ONE
is in Use Almost Daily and
i Is Likely to Be Made
! Permanent.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.


M AMOR CLUB has taken the lead
NH among the local golf clubs in a
N field of service that may be-
1 1 come an essential part of the
golf clubs of the future-par-
ticularly If they lie at some distance
from the centers of population.
Believing that an airplane landing
field now Is and may become In the
future even a more useful adjunct
than at present. Manor has cleared a
place near the fifteenth green of the
club, where airplanes land almost daily
and which may be used as permanent
landing spot for planes used by club
members to make the trip from Wash
ington, Is miles from downtown.
Last year the Congressional Country
Club, which is another of the clubs
lying some distance from the city. an
nounced plans for landing field along
side the first fairway. But nothing
was done about it and the matter ap-
parently was dropped Now Manor has
come along with landing field al
ready in use and one which may prove
of increasing value to the club mem
bership. So far the field has only been
used by planes from the Congressional
Airport, which is located on Wisconsin
avenue, out near Rockville.
Will Make Trial Hop.
No use of the field has been made by
golfing members of the club, but Ray
r. Garrity, the hard working chairman
of the Manor Club golf committee,
hopes to make trial hop from down.
town air field out to the club soon to
see Just how much time can be saved
by the airplane method Of transporta-
ton. On such comparatively short
hops, most of the elapsed time is taken
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to airport and from airport to club.
The flight itself should not take more
than 10 minutes, as the air line dis
tance to Manor Is not more than 10 or
IL miles. But even at that 1t should
not take more than 20 or 25 minutes
to get to the Manor Club from down.
town ONCE, by utilizing the Hoover air
port as a starting point and landing on
the field on the grounds of the Manor
Club.
Who knows that airplane transport
tation may not become popular. means
of getting to the Manor Club in the
future and that other clubs located
considerable distances from the city
may not make frequent use of this
method Of transportation? So far
Manor is the only club to provide a
landing field for airplanes about
Washington 1t would not be feasible
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for the tail skid of plane tears UP a
strip of sod.
An exhibition golf match in which
Mrs. Dorothy White Nicholson of
Washington, holder of the women's Dis
trict title, will pair with Mrs. j. Marvin
Haynes of Columbia against two famous
woman golfers Of the metropolitan dis
trict Is In process of arrangement and
probably will be staged at Columbia
late in September. The two visitors will
be Mrs. j. E. Lapham and Mrs. Thomas
Hucknall. both we'll known Griscom
Cup PLAYERS and well known golfers
around the New York district. Mrs.
Hucknall is the present holder of the
Connecticut State Nomen's champion
ship, in a State where good woman
golfers are plentiful Mrs. Lapham is
a fine golfer and usually Is prominent
competitor In the women's metropolitan
championship. Both play from the
Woodway Club Of New Canaan. Conn.
The match probably will be staged after
the women's national championship
late In September.