Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-15


lies at any spot on the golf
course, be it woods, bunkers or
Il fairway, will come to an end for
the golf1ng clans of the Ban
nockburn Golf Club on May 25. when
the first, round of the annual COMPETE
ton for the Henry Williams Cup gets
under way.
Chairman J. Fred Byrne of the golf
committee and President Middleton
Beaman of the club have drawn up
a new set Of ground rules which will
abolish the old rule of tee 'em up"
no matter where they lay and will SUBJ
Stitute for this happy local regulation
the rules of golf as expounded by the
United States Golf Association, supple
mented by one local rule. The single
local rule that will differ from the
strict U. S. G. A. rules will be that
covering roadwayS. Bannockburn Is to
have in effect the same local rule that
Washington has covering roadwayS
This rule is that ball may be dropped
from roadways without penalty, because
many OF the roadWays are of tempo
rary nature and cannot be kept in good
condition because of their infrequent
use.
Byrne explained that the course has
come along so well. that fairways have
so improved and the layout in general
has become so much better that the
preferred lie privilege enjoyed by the
Bannockburn members over their own
course can now be done away with, and
straight rules of play 'em as they lie''
substituted. He added that Bannock-
burn members, used to teeing the ball
up on their own course no matter where
they lay, were at a severe disadvantage
when playing other courses where the
ball had to be played from where it was
driven.
Bannockburn has progressed a long
way from the old days when it had
moved over from the old course near
CheVy Chase Circle to new 9-hole
layout built by DR.. Thomas j. w.
Brown, who still is the enthusiastic and
nard-Working chairman of the greens
committee. We well remember the first
day we stepped out on the first tee of
the old 9-hole course to play a round
OF golf with Dick Beattie, Willie Mackie
and Lee Crandall Two Of them are
now professional golfers and Crandall
has dropped out Of the game. The old
golfing group at Bannockburn were
died-in- the wool players, whose enthu-
siasm was tempered only by the wealth
er. There were John T. Harris, now
member of Indian Spring: Waldo r.
Pearce and James A. White, jr., still
members of Bannockburn; DR.. Brown,
Daniel Hazard, Hugo HaSSelbach and
number of others, some of whom have
passed on, while most of them still
carry on at the old course.
About six years ago Bannockburn
decided on an expansion program. The
club had been playing with the idea
of an 18-hole course for several years,
and with the influx of a group OF new
members and greatly enhanced men,
bership the club engaged Bill Connel-
Ian to lay out new course. This Is
the present course of the club, con-
Structed over good golf terrain, rugged
in spots, but with the making of a
first-claSs course in it. We we'll re-
member the enthusiasm the old Ban
nockburn members had in the old days,
how they used to organize rock-picking
parties. for the Bannockburn terrain
was plentifully sprinkled with small
stones. Much of the present good con-
dition of the Bannockburn fairways Is
due to these pioneers who cleaned the
Railways and adjacent rough OF the
small stones.
But Bannockburn has moved far
from these pioneer days. Today 1t has
a fine golf course, and the move to be
made to abolish Winter rules is all
that Is needed. On June /, 1t is I'M
derstood Bannockburn is to close its
ISI, lOL tAiC
OF the Glen Echo club has been growing
by leaps and bounds until lengthy
waiting list is in prospect. Much OF
this progress has come about by the
efforts of the later leaders of the club,
Such as Beaman, Byrne. Thomas d:
Harden, L. C. Pate, E. C. Alvord, and
Glenn McHugh. But Bannockburn had
a fine foundation in those pioneers who
built golf course above the hills OF
Glen Echo. 1t couldn't help but be
good with such enthusiasm behind 1t.
An augury of what may happen in
the Interscholastic match on Saturday
which may decide the fate OF the Dawes
cup for 1929, came yesterday at Indian
SnrinR when Tommy Wehh and Noble