Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-18

Notwithstanding the comparatively
small amount raised, considering the
genuine golf attraction offered by the
four men who gave their services to this
cause, the performance put on by the
professionals indicates their willingness
to go to any length to aid comrade.
With only one club not heard from
definitely, A. F. Bergman, secretary Of
the pro association. said last night the
81, 1903 figure would be within few
dollars of the correct amount which will
be presented to Bobby McWatts wife.
Such an exhibition of talent, we be-
lieve, would have raised $4,000 or more
in another city of comparable size to
Washington. Whether the 50 admission
fee was too high, or whether the day
was too hot, we do not know, but
the meagerness of the sum raised proves
again that Washington's golf bugs will
not turn out in great numbers to see q
match with a 50 admission fee-no
matter how good 1t may be.
We remember four years ago when
Jim Barnes and Willie MacFarlane
played at Columbia for the unofficial
world match play championship, how
something more than 5000 was Melted
at the gate at q price Of 50 head.
Possibly If tickets cost q dollar, the
crowd might have been double at the
match on Tuesday.
A mix-up in the printed schedule
has caused postponement of the pro
event originally scheduled for tomor-
row at the Manor Club to August rs,
when an amateur professional tourna-
ment will be staged over the picturesque
course of the N@Aeck organization, and
the star amateurs and professionals OF
this section will struggle with the
fringing woods cf the new nine.
Several golfers from the Capital are
planning to play in the Western Mary
land amateur championship, to De
staged over the course at Deer Park,
Md, August %, %, "a and &c. A worn-
ems tournament will be held at Deer
Park, August 81 and %.
Chairman Guy Mason of the Con-
gressional Country Club golf committee
is to stage a tournament for the support
ing cast of the club next Saturday,
when he will put on century"
tourney for players who never have
shattered 100 over the Congressional
course. The tourney ought to be a
popular affair, for it is a safe bet that
rs per cent of the golfers at any club
do not break 100 with any regularity.
Bannockburn golfers today are COM
pleting the final rounds of miniature
tournament which started yesterday.
Players at the Beaver Dam Country
Club of Landover. Md, are competing
today in tombstone tournament, with
handicaps.
Roger Peacock, youthful star of the
Indian Spring Club. shot a "a at Con-
gressional with Byrn Curtiss the other
day to beat M. P. Nolan and John Tier
ney, and then issued a challenge to
Sidney Moore and Archie Clark, the as
sistant professionals at the club. The
match Is to be played tomorrow over
the lengthy reaches Of Congressional
Judge w. b. Hester is the latest Rock
Greek Park golfer to make q hole In
.one. Judge Hester's ace came on the
eleventh hole Of the Rock Greek course,
a hole measuring 164 yards in length,
which he played with an iron and had
the satisfaction Of watching the ball roll
In the cup. Playing with him were A.
B. Veazey, N. D. Settler and G. 8. Car
mack.
The new air field at the Manor Club
is q good one and sufficiently large for
planes to land under almost all wind
conditions, according to the pilot OF the
plane, which took four Capital golfers
from Washington to the club Friday.