Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-24
STRAIGHT OFF THE TEE

he is to compete in the British open and
in match for a purse with Bob
Cruickshank against Henry Cotton and
Charles Whitcombe, English profess
SIGNALS This match will be played near
Edinburgh,
Manager Ed Burns and AL Farr of
East Potomac Park and Rock Creek
Park are proceeding with plans for the
coming Spring public links tournament,
which may be called the city Spring
municipal championship. Under present
plans five fights will be qualified al
each course, open to all golfers not con-
nected with clubs.
The winners of each flight at each
course will play the winners at the
other course. and attractive prizes are to
be put up b. Concessionnaire Loeffler.
Sam Miller. locker attendant at East
Potomac Park. is slowly recovering
from an infection of the right eye
which he suffered during the Winter,
result of an industrial injury more than
a decade ago.
Out at Rock Greek Park, Farr has
constructed practice putting green
alongside the eighth fairway of course
A, which will be duplicate of the one
at East Potomac Park, and will be
opened shortly He also has laid out
three-hole pitching and putting
course where golfers may pass the time
while awaiting their turn on the tee.
Walter F.. Hall, former pro at Rock
Creek Park, scored an ace on the seven
tenth hole at that course the other
day. but a one that was not altogether
to his liking. His ball at this one-shot
hole, found a ground hog burrow just
off the green. Hall is negotiating with
the management of the Annapolis
Roads Country Club for the profession
al berth at that club.
Frank Hartig, former pro at Rock
Greek, has been named instructor at
the Army Navy and Marine Club in
Virginia, near Fort Myer. Hartig holds
a Summer job at Saranac Lake, but in
tends to spend part of his time at the
local organization, putting in an as
sistant to handle the job while he is
at Saranac.
A complete tournament program, in
Guiding the one-day affairs held each
month. will be arranged by the Dis
trict Women's Golf Association, which
Is to meet tomorrow afternoon at the
Willard Hotel. The association will set
dates and name courses for the playing
of The Evening Star Cup tourney and
for the District women's championship,
which Dorothy White of Washington
has won for the past three years. The
meeting also will discuss placing of the
Phyllis Keeler Memorial, which is to
be set up at the Washington Golf and
Country Club as tribute to the late
secretary of the organization.
Columbia eleventh hole, while re-
tanning the same terrifying aspect OF
other years, is not the same hole. The
big bunker across the fairWay to catch
a bad second shot has been eliminated,
while a new bunker has been placed at
the left. The mound on the right edge
of the putting green, atop the bunker at
The right. has been lowered and the put
ting green does not now have the degree
Of undulation of other years.
O. P. Fits, course supervisor, expects
to put the new sixteenth hole in play
In about three weeks. He wants to give
the grass plenty of time to get flrm
hold before playing on the green. Inc
hole seems certain to become che OF the
outstanding short holes about the Capt.
tai