Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-05
BALTIMORE EVENT
CUTS DOWN FIELD
Most of D. C. First Flight Men
Entered in Local Play,
However.
BY WALTER r. Nice ALUM.

Club this week, where President j. D
Kaufman of the Bethesda organization
and Chairman Illch of the golf club
committee have prepared the way for
another stirring chapter in the realm
OF local golf The field at Town and
Country Club will not be as productive
of golfing class as that at Washington
last week, for, by queer quick OF the
schedule makers, the tourney conflicts
with that of the Baltimore Country
) Club, which is to start over the Five
Farms course of the club on Thursday.
2 Miller B. STEVENSON, the District anna
teur king who won the Baltimore
tourney in 1926, and Albert r. Mac
Kenzie of Columbia will be missing
from the Town and Country Club event.
for they have agreed to play In the
Baltimore tourney along with several
other leading Washington linksmen.
Nevertheless the Town and Country
Club will not lack class, for most of the
normal st-flight players of the city
have entered the event which starts on
Tuesday. The tourney is one of the
most popular of the season. The
Bethesda Club has become famous for
its hospitality and the spirit the mem
bers put into the conduct of the tour
new. Five flights of Is will qualfy
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tomary match play rounds to follow.
Winter rules will be played by the
professional golfers who are to compete
for $500 in cash prizes at the harper
Country Club on May IS. A. l..
Houghton, the club professional, says
the fairways are coming along in good
shape. but that because the grass is
sparse on some of the fairways the pros
will be allowed to set the ball up.
Twelve Washington professionals are
to be invited to play in an 18-hole BEST
ball competition on May IS, with $S0O
to 20 to the winning pair and SOU 10
the pair who finish in second place.
Later in the year Harper plans TO go
through with previously announcea
plans for a S2,500 open tourney, Wnlcn
is expected to bring to Washington
many nationally famous professional
golfers.
Frank Hartig and r. Cliff McKimmie,
Army, Navy and Marine Club profess
SIGNALS, hope to avenge this afternoon
a defeat given them two weeks ago ny
Tony sylvester and A. L. Houghton,
professionals at Bannockburn ana
Harper. The quartet will play an 18-
hole exhibition match at the service
club starting at o'clock this afternoon.
Houghton and Sylvester won an easy
victory in the first match, but Hartig
and McKimmie hope to turn the tables
today.
A. G. Stun, Bannockburn star, is fast
acquiring a reputation as long hitter.
He convinced Walter w. Cunningham,
Burning Tree pro, that he can knock
a golf ball far out in the great open
spaces last Thursday afternoon AZ
washington. Some one had told Cum
ningham that Stup Is quite driver.
Cunningham didn't think he was SO
long, SO the pair moved outside the
griIlroom door at the washington Club.
Stun teed I'D a ball and knocked II
over the sixteenth green and across the
hin overlooking the thirteenth green,
ball that must have carried $40 yaros.
Cunningham didn't even take on ms
coat He was satisfied that Stup could
hit the ball, and didn't care to demon
strate his inability to match the Ban
nockburn mans tee shot.
Cunningham, by the way, grew up
with w. H. Wood over at Washington
and there has been a good deal OF
rivalry as to playing supremacy between
he could beat Cunningham over his
own course at Burning Tree, and Cum
ningham was not slow to accept the
challenge. The match will be played
shortly for a sizeable side bet.
Veterans Bureau golfers who COM
peted in the rain last Wednesday in
the qualifying round of a tourney at
the Argyle Country Club have been
paired in match play which will be
played over other courses. The nrst
round of the match play must be con-
cluded by May Is. Pairings In the
tourney follow:
First flight-R. A. Bishop VS.. Norman
j. Hall, DR.. w. w. MARI VS.. DR.. H. r.
Iipscomb, N. Laden VS.. T. Daley, r. H.
Pritchard vs.. Leo F. Pass, L. Nelson VS..
v. C. Deike, w. T. Goodwin VS.. D. P.
LoIr, George Mccarthy VS.. II. K. Bent
lev, c. Allen VS.. G. H. Llewellyn.
Second flight. E. Upp vs. Maj. w.
w. Smith, P. H. McMurray VS.. T. N.
Sheebon, r. P. McCandlish VS.. F. Brit
ton. H L. Parkinson VS.. F. WEuet, w.
Scott VS.. George McGurn, Dr.. E. @.
Fuller VS.. H. M. Seydel, c. Whelan VS..
A. Brosseau, L. G. Beadsly VS.. j. Brady.
Women's fight-Miss A. Hinderliter
VS.. Miss E. Almond, Miss Ora Smith VS..
Mrs. M. Shipley.
We do not recall having heard Of
stunt similar to that recorded by Comdr.
c. T. Lynes of Washington during the
Washington Club tournament last week,
eighth and tenth holes on two consecu-
tive rounds of the course. Six brides
in two rounds is unusual enough, but
to have them come on the same holes
in consecutive rounds Is remarkable,
particularly on such tough par 4 holes
as the third, eighth and tenth. The
third hole is 451 yards in length, the
tenth is $40 yards long, and one Of the
hardest mar as on the course
Georgetown University golf team
members, who played in the Washing
ton tournament last week, had their
last taste of tournament competition
for several weeks. Each week end
henceforth until June they will be busy
playing golf matches with other vi
leges or with club teams. Yesterday
the Georgetown team played Pennsyl-
yania and Princeton in one day.
Dick Wilson, who beat Maurice ]. Nc
earthly. captain of the Hilltop team, in
the semi-final of the Washington event,
is 1S years old and is native of South
ern Pines, N. c.. where he learned his
golf. Wilson is a brilliant player whose
mistakes are usually rectified in terms
of brides.
BannOckburn members are to COM
pete today in another of the series of
unique events arranged by Chairman
w. Fred Byrne and his associates on
the golf committee The event will be
kicker's tourney, in which each player
is to be alloyed to replay one shot on
each hole.
Indian Spring is to go ahead rapidly
with its new building program endorsed
by the club membership at a meeting
held Thursday night. A complete set
of plans for additions and Improvements