Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-02

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be played at 70 holes medal play.
The remaining tournament schedule
follows:
June Is, IS, 27 and 2s-Annual in
vitation tournament for the Presidents
Cup.
July 4-Tombstone tournament, open
to club members.
July 21-Eighteen holes match play
for selected club teams. Blues VS.. Reds
August 1o-"Gimme' tournament, ID
holes handicap medal play. Losers to
give prizes to winners.
august 24-"Century' tournament.
Eighteen holes handicap medal play,
open to club members who have not
broken 100.
Labor day Eighteen
holes handicap match play against par.
September 12-Invitation buffers
tournament.
September Is and 26-District anna
teur golf championship.
october Club championship finals
for the Joseph H. Hines trophy. Eight
cen holes.
October 13-Tatum cup handicap, 18
holes. Open only to members of club.
November representation Of prizes
won during the year at a dinner to be
held In the clubhouse. The club golf
committee is composed of Guy Mason,
chairman; DR.. Bruce L. Taylor, Page
Hufty, Whitney Leary and DR.. H. L.
Strine.
1t is not generally known that the
cup which IS the chief prize in the
Congressional Country Club invitation
tourney was presented to the club by
the President of the United States when
Herbert Hoover had just given up the
reins of office as first president of
the Congressional Country Club. AL
Day, former manager of the club, once
told us the story of how he wished
the club might have a large trophy
to be competed for in the invitation
tournament. He went to see Mr.. Hoo
yer in his office in the Commerce De-
partment Building Che then was Secre-
tary OF Commerce), with his PROPOSE
ton for Mr.. Hoover to give such cup.
The President authorized Day to go
ahead and the trophy now has been in
competition for four years. Mr.. Hoo
when he presided over the destinies of
the then young and growing Congress
sional Club, he was a hearty sponsor
Of all forms of club activity and real
lied that golf was the chief sport of
the club. The trophy is a massive
piece Of silver with top representing
the dome Of the Capitol. To the win
ner OF the invitation tournament goes
replica Of the trophy.
Three Washington bankers and the
club professional opened the new course
Of the Annapolis Roads Golf and Coun-
try Club last Thursday when they
played the first round of the new layout
: down on Chesapeake Bay In the four
| some were Lawrence Slaughter of the
Commercial National Bank, Charles H.
Doing, jr, Of the Washington Loan &
Trust Co.; Christopher H Pope of the
Munsey Trust Co. and Walter F. Hall,
the club pro.
Although the course is not officially
ready for serious play, golfers who are
members of the club may play under
WINTER rules World famous golf holes
have been used as the basis of design Of
the course, which is declared by Hall
to be the equal Of any he ever has seen.
Famous holes at st. Andrews, Biarritz,
Lido and the National have been repro
duced at Annapolis.
The board of governors of the club
has in its membership several WASH
1ngtonians, among them Mrs. Richard
Porter Davidson, Mrs. James Carroll
Frazer, Joseph H. Hines, wilton j.
Lambert. Rear Admiral w. A. Moffett,
U. S. N: Gen. Charles P. Summerall
and c. H. Pope. Talbot T. Speer, former
Maryland University foot ball star, who
now lives in Baltimore, also is a mem
Der OF the governing board.
William B. Curtiss of Indian Spring is
the author Of yarn which sounds
hshy, but is the truth. He tells how
William P. Di Este, the cross-handed
golfer, who is one of the best players at
Indian Spring, knocked a ball in the
pond at the seventh hole and secured
birdie. How Gomez" Curtis was asked.
Easy" he replied. THE pond was
frozen over, and Bills ball hit on the
ice and rolled up to within iron-shot
distance of the green"
And Bob Barnett relates how he
played Ralph Beach a medal round at
Chevy Chase some time ago, with Beach
going out in 80 to pile up a lead of 8
strokes over the confident Chevy Chase
pro. Il bet him I would beat him on
the round" Barnett says, land although
1t seems unbelievable. that is what hap
pened. was lucky enough and holed
enough puts to come back over the last
nine holes in 81 strokes, winning the
match by strokes"
Reminiscing over the way Archia
Compston seems to have the Indian
sign OF Hagen in match play brings
home the fact that however much they
may trounce The Haig" in man-to-
man competition, when he has golf
course and whole field to beat, as in
medal play, the British pros usually
are not one, two, three with him. 1T
seems strange" one of the Washington
pros said in speaking of Horton Smiths
inforced use of wooden shafts in Bril-
tain. that whenever American golfers
score a victory by some new invention,
the British bar it from play In their
championships"
History shows that to be true. even
though our British brothers cannot be
called poor sportsmen by any stretch of
the Imagination, for back In 1904. when