Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-05-03
$500 GOLF AFFAIR
TO OPEN NEW CLUB
Event for District Pros Is
Scheduled at Harper
Course May 18.
BY WALTER r.. McCALLUM.
A POT of gold totaling $500 is to
~ be put LID BIZ the Harper Coun-

4 A match winch VIII S1gnallze the
opening of the new eighteen
hole course on Wisconsin avenue, on
May Is. Three foursomes composed of
Washington professionals are to be in
vited to contest for the dough. according
to A. L. Houghton, professional at the
Harper club.
Furthermore, Houghton says, Harper
is going ahead steadily with plans for
the scheduled $4,000 open which is
to be held next Fall as one of the open
ing events of series of professional
tournaments to be staged by one of
Washington's fastest growing golf Or
ganizations.
Harper Country Club has broken into
what Congress refers to az "the public
prints" only occasionally recently. Golf
has hardly started at the new course
located about halfway between Bethes-
da and Rockville. But from what
Houghton says of the plans of the
looking members golf affairs il that
section of Maryland are due for sud-
den boom. ','....
Only within the past fortnight the
Harper Country Club has passed from
the hands of the private holding corpor-
alton that owned it into the hands of
the members. And to make the matter
more cogent. Houghton says the club
now has a membership of something like
800 and that before the year Is out
q holes of golf, all offering something
new in the way of shot-n1aking, will be
offered. ....'... ...--' .-''
In the May Is event the IL local
professionals will be paired in teams
ming pair to play in foursomes. To the
winning pair will go $500. while the
second place winners will split 5000.
Houghton adds that the club board
of governors already has authorized the
appropriation of $2,500 in prize money
for the proposed open tourney in the
Fall, which will be held some time in
November, in order to catch the pros
at the season when they are not toe
busy picking up loose ends OF money
elsewhere.
C, T. Ted Lynes of Washington sci
what we believe to be an all-time rec
ord for consecutive brides on the same
holes in one day yesterday during the
course of the Washington tournament
The third, eighth and tenth are al
difficult par 4 holes, and in each OF
his two rounds of the course yesterday
Lynes secured brides on these holes
He played the third in pair OF IS. the
eighth in similar manner and the tenIE
in the same way.
J. Nevins Mcbride, Georgetown, Uni
versity lad, trounced DR.. 7. D. WeoE
of washington in the first round 0,
the second fight by one OF the mos
spectacular shots of the first days play
With webb lying feet from the pir
in 3, and almost certain TO get Z
Mcbride holed pitch shot from
bank above the fifteenth green 10 VII
the hole with a birdie when Wept
missed the putt. McBrloe won On 'ii'
first extra hole. A..
The most scintillating shot OF TIT
dav came from the niblick OF youns
Dick Wilson of Piliehurst on the eight
eenth green of his match with Henry
D. Nicholson of washington, at TIME
when nothing short Of perfect sno
would do. Wilson and Nicholson nae
| one of the hnest matches OF the TOUT
new. with the washington lad jumping
| into an early lead, only to have Wilson
mare it down to nothing by winning
the twelfth and fourteenth. Ill.
wilson sank a 15-footer Tor a plrols
| 3 at the sixteenth, and they halVee
the seventeenth in par As. Nlcnotson
second shot was short of the green a.
the eighteenth, while wilson's was e
the right and past the green. Nlcnol'
| son laid his third Is inches past tht
hin. leaving Wilson a very difficult sno
| 10 green sloping away from him u
win the match. He studied 1t Ions
while. then took a niblick and plnchec
| the ball out from the sloping oanK u
| within foot of the hole.
DR.. Larry S. Otell of Indian Sprns
gave Maurice ]. Mccarthy and MS sup
porters a merry scare IN the mornln NM
by going through the fourteenth mole
all SQUARE with the Georgetown siege
p1In But Otell missed a 4-footer or
the fifteenth for a half, and dropped
the sixteenth to a par 4, TO lose on tnt
seventeenth.
One the fourth hole Of thsi match one
of those incomprehensible things nap
pened. Otell's tee shot was IN tn
woods. while Mccarthy knocked his pal
straight down the middle. McCarth!
put his second shot within ~ yaro
of the pin, while Otell's second MT Z
tree and bounced out of bounds. Otel
was still in the woods and played ou
safe. not more than 10 yards toWare
the hole. For his fourth shot he toot
a wooden club and laid the ball on TIT
green, 40 feet from the hole. And M
sank the putt to get half from NC
Carthy, who had played two perfect
shots, and didn't get his chip shot close
enough to secure the birdie he nae
expected.
Central High School linkSmen are te
meet st. Johns Prep School golfers In
match tomorrow morning at the In
dian Spring Golf Club. The match with
Tech High School, which probably will
settle the Dawes Cup competition for
this year. will be played at Indian Spring
next Saturday. and If Central wins, the
Dawes Cup will 60 to the lads from the
Mount Pleasant school.
Another tourney of the Middle Atlantic