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

over the layout of the Forest Park
course before the championship starts.
Walter Barrett, low scorer Of the quar-
tet, intends to go to st. Louis by auto
mobile, leaving Washington on July 81.
James F. Phelan plans to be in st.
Louis on August 8, while Louis Fuchs
and j. B. Robertson, the other team
members, are to leave Washington Au-
gust 3, arriving in st. Louis the fol-
lowing day.
The Harding Cup, emblematic Of the
intercity team championship. is to be
played for in conjunction with the go
hole qualifying round on August and
z. The team with the best aggregate
36-hole score will win the trophy.
One of the largest nurseries of bent
grass anywhere in this section of the
country has been started at the Army,
Navy and Marine Corps Country Club
by Maj. r. d. Newman. constructor of
the course. The nursery has In 1t three
OF the favored varieties of bent grass
the Metropolitan. Washington and CO.
lumbia strains. In addition to furnish
ing bent for the course of the service
club, Maj. Newman plans to grow
enough bent to equip Army post courses
in the East with grass of the best ma
ture for golf. The Columbia nursery,
which produces hardy, closely knit
type OF grass, was started from stolons
imported from Fort Riley, Kans. The
sixteenth green on the course of the
service club is planted to this grass and
Is free from brown patch.
Maj. Newman is laying out and super
vising the construction of golf courses
at the following Army posts in the
vicinity Of Washington: Boiling Field,
where nine-hole course Is under con-
struction; Fort Meade, Md, and Fort
Oglethorpe, Ga. The nursery at the
Army, Navy and Marine Corps Club is
furnishing bent for the green's Of all
these courses.
Gen. D. C. Shanks, chairman of the
handicap committee of the Seniors
Golf Association of the Chevy Chase
Club, wishes more members to take part
in the putting contests staged every
week for them. Somebody is losing a
chance to get golf balls without paying
for them" he declares in letter to the
members.
Nearly every professional in the mid
Atlantic area has entered the amateur
professional best ball event to be staged
over the fine course Of the Annapolis
Roads Golf Club, near Annapolis, Md,
tomorrow. II the wind blows strong, as
1t usually does at Annapolis. the tour
ney should offer fine test Of the game,
particularly as many of the competitors
will be playing the new standard ball,
which has been on the market for sew
eral days. Professional entries so far
are George Diffenbaugh and j. Monro
Hunter, Indian Spring; Bob Barnett and
Gene Larkin, Chevy Chase; Alex Ar
mour. Archie Clark and Sidney G.
4. so~k
Potomac Park; Arthur B. Thorn, Town
and Country Club; Fred Mcleod, Co
lumbia; Tony Sylvester, Bannockburn;
A. L. Houghton, Harper: James Roche,
Elkridge; James Powers, unattached: AL
Treder, Manor; Charles p. Betschler,
Rodgers Forge, Baltimore; Warner
Mather. Woodholme, Baltimore; William
Schrieber, Frederick, Md; Glenn s.
Spencer, Baltimore; Carroll T. McMas-
ter, Baltimore; william Scott, Baltimore
Country Club; Walter w. Cunningham,
Burning Tree Club. A number Of the
leading amateur golfers from Washing
with the professionals in the tourney,
The new golf shop at the Washington
Golf and Country Club, which is con-
nected with the clubhouse. is expected
to be ready for occupancy by Dave
Thomson, the club pro, some time with
in q week. The old golf shop building
near the first tee, is to be torn down
and Thomson and his assistants. with
all the golf shop equipment, will be
moved into the new structure.
G. v. Worthington and L. o. Cam.
eron are the two ball champions Of the
Seniors Golf Association Of the Chevy
Chase Club. Playing with q handicap
of IA strokes, they defeated Walter @.
Peter and @. Phillips Hill on the last
hole of the final round.