Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-18

r. ORCED by pressure of play to
- take immediate steps to cut
down congestion on busy golf
4 days, the golf committee of the
Bannockburn Golf Club has
notified the members that after June
% they will not be able to play in two
ball or three-ball matches on Sat-
urday afternoons and Sunday morn
ings and will have to play in four-ball
matches on those days when the course
is crowded.
So popular have the Saturday and
Sunday events become at Bannockburn
that course congestion has increased
to the point where something had to
be done to lessen congestion, and
low members of the golf committee took
this means to speed up play.
Byrne declares that Bannockburn
now has more golfers using the course
than ever before and that interest in
club events Is increasing every week.
He has arranged an attractive series
of events for the golflng members of
the club, which will run through the
Summer and Fall.
A. L. Houghton, Harper Country
Club professional, and Walter w. Cum
bingham of Burning Tree are at
Shawnee to play in the open event
paired today with Alex Morrison,
famous trick-shot artist of the stage,
and T. McWalters. Houghton was to
play with Harry Cooper and Roland
Hancock. In practice Cunningham had
IS yesterday and Houghton regis
tered a u. The tourney is a three
day affair at 70 holes.
Rear Admiral w. H. STANDBY is the
winner of the Perkins plate, the trophy
put up by the president of the Seniors
Golf Association of the Chevy Chase
Club for the first big event of the
season. Standby defeated Charles v.
Wheeler l up in the final round, con-
ceding his opponent five strokes in the
final round.
The fourth round of the competition
for the Morven Thompson memorial
cup finds the following seniors opposed:
Rear Admiral C. B. McVay VS.. P. S.
Ridsdale or A. v. Cushman; Gen D. C.
Shanks VS.. Admiral r. II. jackson; Ad-
miral STANDBY VS.. Whitman Cross; e.
M. Talcott drew bye.
With the competition for the HAYNES
cup arranged as the first Of the series,
schedule for women golfers of the
Congressional Country Club has been
arranged by the tournament committee
The Haynes cup event will be concluded
In September with one 18-hole medal
play round each month. On September
1921, inclusive, the annual women's
championship event will be played. The
women will qualify in flights OF eight
On october the Haynes cup handicap
event will be concluded with a special
round.
Entries for the Spring invitation
tourney Of the Congressional Country
Club, which is the last big Spring tour
| ney in the immediate vicinity of Wash
mittee of the club at o'clock Saturday
night. The tourney will start Tuesday,
June 25, and run through Friday, June
!. %. A two-day qualification round will
| be played. The tournament commit
! tee is composed of the following mem
bers of the club: Guy Mason, chair
man; DR.. Bruce L. Taylor, Page Hufty,
Whitney Leary. DR.. Howard L. Strine
and Alex Armour.
| George Diffenbaugh and j. Monro
Hunter, the famed Indian Spring duo,
/ have at last been beaten. But the lick
/ ing came at the hands of members OF
their own club and was done with the
! aid of handicap. Hunter and Dihen-
baugh gave j. Monro Hunter, jr., and
J. w. Harvey up in a match and
!
though the senior Hunter registered So
! for the round. He was out in 33 and
was back in IS. Diffenbaugh helped
him on one hole on the last nine, giving
them best ball for that nine of "a.
/ That women's golf around Washing
| ton is very decidedly on the upgrade
and may be expected soon to become as
fast as it is in other centers of the
game was the conclusion drawn from
the qualifying round of the Women's
/, District Golf Association championship
yesterday at Columbia. Last year, 1t
will be recalled, scores of 100 qualified
for the first fight, but yesterday, play
| ing over the course on which the open
championship was held eight years ago,
+, four women broke 90 and only one
score of 100 made the championship
division.
Mrs. ]. Marvin Haynes of Columbia,
medalist in the tourney, with a card
of "a, met Mrs. Perry B. Hoover of In
dian Spring in the first match play
round today, while Mrs. Dorothy White
Nicolson, who has won the champion
ship for the last three years, was OPP
posed to Mrs. E. r. Tilley, who won the
title five years ago. Mrs. Nicolson