Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-06-16


Spring professional, probably
will be a contestant in the
~ Shawnee open tourney, to be
played this week over the pic
turesuue course of the Shawnee Club on
the banks of the Delaware River Fred
Mcleod of Columbia also may go to
Shawnee.
The son of Hunter. Monro, jr-
who is certain to be one Of the out
standing amateur stars of golf about
washington If he remains in the Capt.
tai, Is gaining a. reputation similar To
that Of his dad for long walloping from
the tee. We recall watching him play
his second shot at the tenth hole last
Friday from point parallel with the
bunkers that stretch across the fair
way so yards from the green. That
wallop must have Travelled $50 yards,
with the last part Of the journey up
hill.
At the first hole he hit a ball that
left him a mashie niblick shot of less
than so yards. The sole weakness Of
the younger Hunter appears to be a
lack of firmness with his short iron
shots, as If often the case with men
who can hit the ball long way from
the tee. Hunter plays a niblick well,
but the shot lacks firmness.
Chairman William G. Illch of the
Town and Country Club golf commit
tee will lead his golf team into action
next Saturday and Sunday against a
team of players from the Lakeside
Country Club of Richmond in a re-
sumption of the intercity contests
which have been held annually be-
tween these two clubs for many years.
In past years the contests were three
cornered affairs, but the Lynnhaven
Club of Norfolk has dropped out of the
league. Members OF the Town and
Country Club team are Howard Nord-
linger, Max Weyl. Marx kaufman,
Morris Simon, william G. Illch. Fulton
Brylawski. Ralph Goldsmith, DR.. M. B.
Steinem. Alternates are Leopold d.
Freudberg and Willard Goldheim.
Construction work already has started
on the addition to the clubhouse at the
Washington Golf and Country Club,
which will provide several score addi-
tional lockers for the club, and will at
the same time provide quarters for the
club professional in the clubhouse.
Sherwood Forest is to hold a golf
tournament this year, according to an
nouncement a few days ago. The tour
ney, which was won last year by
NAAoASo W. NO1Cp Jis1 Va 1IlQlhu 0pAu
Is TO be played over the picturesque
course on the banks of the Severn on
July 10, 20 and 81.
Frederick X. Hitz scored a scintillat-
ing IL to win the Saturday sweepstakes
tourney Of the Chevy Chase Club yes
terday with net card of 81. This
cluded two penalty strokes because of
balls struck into hazards, and three
puts on the fifteenth green. Five play
erS tied with net 20 for second place.
They were: T. Y. Milburn, 84-14-70;
J. H. Hinemon, 83-13-7o: c. Ashmead
Fuller, 73-3-7O; Franklin H. Ellis,
78-8-70 and DR.. Loren B. T, johnson,
85-15-70.
The strangest part of the Columbia
tourney. in addition to the unusually
low scoring, was the fact that several
normal first-fiight players were scat
tered through the lower flights. Yester-
day afternoon w. Carlton Evans, who is
"a first-fiight player, won the fifth
night from E. l.. Bono by the over
Whelming score of and g.. Alex M.
Knapp, who won the Baltimore Country
Club tourney, and is a first-flight play
ed In any mans golf event, was beaten
In the third flight, and beaten again in
the consolation. In every flight there
were one or two men who are usually
capable or making the first flight. 1t
emphasizes again the truth of Cy Cum
| ming's remark: There's q sleeper In
every flight" But Cummings aside
never was truer than In the case of the
tournament Of hia own club.
His many friends were glad to see
Cummings again on familiar territory
yesterday as he presented a kit of golf
equipment to George P. James and in
dulged In q bit Of the oratory which
Cummings alone can handle. ICY" has
been Ill for q good many weeks and
only lately has been able to be up and
about. He was at Columbia every day
during the tournament with his char
acteristic huuor and uuips. Another
old-timer whose face many golfers were
| glad to see was Fred d. Paxton. chair
man Of the Washington Golf and
| Country Club golf committee, who has
been confined to his home for several
months and who only lately underwent
| an operation. His many friends will
be glad to learn that Paxton Is improv-
| ing and that he may be seen on the
golf course before many more weeks