Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-28

Cup, which is played for In
72-hole medal play compete
ton, with club handicaps applying.
The event now is in its third week and
only three members have turned in
complete scores. H. G. Wood has
turned in four scores. Playing with a
handicap of IA strokes he has scored
50, 86, IS and SO. E. M. Dawson with
a handicap Of q has turned in cards
of 102, 1903 and 101. Otto. Thacker
with a handicap of % has turned in
80, 81 and 90.
w. L. Pendergast, who holds the rec
ord for the Bannockburn course, has
turned in the lowest gross card, an 30.
Pendergast plays with handicap OF 6.
The biggest hearted gent in the golf
world around Washington has been
discovered. His name is Joseph T:
Sherrier, and he Is a well known and
popular member Of the Columbia
Country Club.
Here is the way he has achieved his
cognomen: Sherrier played in the
Maryland Country Club tournament,
which ended yesterday. He was
trounced in the second round, and after
his car, and drove back to washington.
Arriving in Washington he discovered
that the clubs which had been placed In
his car were not his own implements.
Searching further through the strange
bag of golf tools, which were left
handed, as his own are, he discovered
that they belonged to A. L. Duncan,
a young member Of the Indian Spring
Golf Club, and a lad who still was
playing in the tournament.
Did Sherrier forget all about Duncan
and let the lad worry along as best he
could? He did not. Early yesterday
morning Sherrier hoped in his car,
and drove all the way back to the Mary
land Country Club, in time to give
Duncan his own clubs before the
youngSter was due to tee of in the
consolation of the seventh flight, where
he went to the final round.
The lad Billy Howell. who should
have beaten Alex M. Knapp in the
semi final round of the Maryland tour
at the finish as he does in the other
stages Of a golf match, If he is to win
tournaments. In his second-round
match against Thomas w. Sasscer he
faded at the end and nearly permitted
the veteran to catch him. while he was
2 up with to 60 against Knapp. and
allowed Knapp to square the match on
the eighteenth.
Had Billy finished with six pars, as
he might have done, considering the
quality Of golf he showed on the pre-
ceding holes, he would have beaten the
ultimate winner Of the tourney. AS
openings to permit the star Baltimore
Country Club player to slide through
and win.
Howell is great golfer. He is one
of the best prospects ever placed on
view in this section Of the country, and
with q little more experience and a
few more beatings he will be a tough
nut to crack for any man. He Is only
II years of age and has two or three
more years of serious tournament play
before he begins to win regularly. But
when he does begin, he will win many
a golf event.
Thomas w. Sasscer, veteran golfer Of
the Maryland Country Club, holds what
we believe to be an all-ttme ringer score
record for standard length 18-hole
golf course.
Sasscer has been playing the game
about two decades and has been romp-
ing around the Maryland Country Club
course for 10 years. ever since the club
moved to its present location on Park
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every hole on the golf course with the
exception Of the 51O-yard eleventh, and
his ringer score for the course for all
time Is 37-or one over even twos. Per.
haps some day he will hole full shot
on the tenth and bring 1t down to
perfectly even twos, which any golfer
will admit Is something to aim at. He
has had a 2 on the 460-yard par 5
eighth hole obtained by holing bras
sic shot, and has holed all the other
holes In two strokes. Strangely enough,
his all-time score does not include an
ace, although there are three one-shot
holes on the Maryland course.
Plans are maturing for a District of
Columbia public links championship to
be played at East Potomac Park and
Rock Creek Park late In September.
The scheme as proposed at present is to
have 80 men qualify at medal play at
Rock Greek Park, with the same num-
Der to qualify in the same form Of COM
petition at East Potomac Park. They
viii then proceed at match play and
the two survivors win meet at 36-hole
match play over both courses TO de-
termine the municipal links champion
ship, with 10 holes to be played over
each Of the courses. Such a scheme
should bring forth real municipal
links champion, for many of the East
Potomac players do not know much Of
the contours at Rock Creek, and many
Of the players at the latter course are
not familiar with the shots required at
East Potomac.
All four entrants from washington
in the national public links title chase
ct st. Louis August 0, z, q, Q and 10
viii have ct least two days Of practice