Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
WASHINGTON YOUTH
LEARNED AS CADD|E
Beaver Dam Course Round
ing Into Shape-Two Events
on Here Tomorrow.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

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* ington youngster VIII Q
learned the game of golf
over the courses of the
Washington Golf and Country
Club and the Columbia Country
Club and has held down several
minor professional posts at clubs
near the Capital, has been named
professional at the Annapolis
Roads Golf Club.
Cook started on his new duties yes
terday, and will live at Annapolis
Roads during the season. He succeeds
Walter F. Hall in the professional nertn
at Annapolis Roads, which Is In its
second year of play and is universally
ranked as one of the leading golf
courses in this section of the country.
The young profl.sional-Cooki is but
% years of age-was assistant to Willie
Robertson at the Glen Oaks Club OF
Pennington, near Detroit, last season.
and was in charge Of Robertsons golf
shop. He was formerly assistant to
Ralph Beach at Burning Tree, was
clubmaker for two years at East Pc
tomac Park. was in the shop of Tommy
Armour for a year at Congressional
and served a season as professional at
the Mansfield Hall Club of Fredericks-
burg, Va. The appointment of Cook Is
the only change made in the ranks OF
the professional golfers about WASH
ington this Spring.
Started as Caddy.
Cook, who is Familiarity known as
"Dick' to many Washington players,
learned the game as caddie at Wash
ington and Columbia, where he fire.
quently caddied for several of the lead
ing players OF the city. He will have
complete charge of the golf shop at
Annapolis Roads, which is to be con-
structed In few weeks, and will live at
the club house.
Virginia Holzderber, former champion
Of the women players Of the Middle At
lantic Golf Association, has been prac-
ticing over the Annapolis Roads course
for more than q fortnight, believing
that the shots which must be played
on that course to obtain respectable
scores are much the same as those she
will have to play on the British courses
next month, when she accompanies the
team of American women to England.
She recently played the Annapolis
course in IS strokes, which is consider
able golf for woman.
A match scheduled for today between
officers and midshipmen of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis Roads has been
postponed until next Sunday. Comdr.
j. B. Pollard Is to head the officers
team.
Washington's longest-and one of the
best-golf courses is rapidly rounding
into shape, and members of the Beaver
Dam Country Club at Landover, Md,
have every hope that the layout near
BladenSburg will be In such condition
by the middle of Spring that Summer
rules may be placed in use. Pathways
on the last nine, put in play only last
year, have come along rapidly and today
are covered with a sturdy growth of
thick grass. Patches which are not
covered with grass are being top-dressed
and sown to seed. and approaches to
ell the greens have been top-dressed.
The Beaver Dam layout is 6,827 yards
in length, with many par holes which
are very near par distance. 1t Is a
course for the slugger and yet demands
considerable finesse to score well.
Beaver Dam has not weak hole in its
entire length.
The club has before it a proposal for
members of the golf team of Maryland
University to practice and play their
matches over the Landover course.
Last year Congressional extended the
privileges Of its course to the George
town golf team.
Professional golfers of the Midatlan-
tic sector, a group of amateurs and
women players about Washington will
play in a brace of tournaments tomorrow
over the courses of the Washington Golf
and Country Club and the Rolling Road
Golf Club of Gainesville, Md. The
mill atp xxyifk foafV IN q 1acf.
ball event sponsored by the Middle At
lantic Professional Golfers Association
at Rolling Road, while the women are
to compete in the 18-hole medal play
event for the Phyllis Keeler Miller
Memorial Trophy. In the women's event
the players with low handicaps will
start shortly after 9 o'clock, while those
with the higher handicapS will start
later. Entries should be telephoned to
Miss Elizabeth Brawner, secretary OF
the District Women's Golf Association,
at Decatur 534S. More than twoScore
fair golfers are expected to turn out for
the competition. Capt. Watson B. Mil
Ter, husband of the late secretary OF
the womens association, Is to present
the prizes tomorrow afternoon.
Golfers of the public high schools, who
have among their number some young
sters who are capable of offering first
class opposition to men many years
their seniors, are to take advantage OF
the Easter holidays by playing off their
interscholastic championship at East
Potomac Park Tuesday. Play will be
ut SO holes medal play competition, and
Is to start at am. Francis Horton OF
Central is the present title holder, and
will have strenuous opposition from
such lads as Tommy Webb Of Western,
Harold Graves Of Central and Bowen
Of Tech The Dawes Cup tourney, which
is played annually for the high-school
team championship, Is to start within
q few weeks.
The Baltimore Country Club has
made a gracious gesture toward public
links golfers of the neighboring Mary
land metropolis. Realizing that the
public courses of Baltimore are not up
to standard as tests of links SKILL the
Baltimore club has consented to the
use of its Five Farms course later in the
year for the sectional qualifying rounds
which will determine the Baltimore
contestants in the national public links
championship.
Washington is fortunate to have two
such fine public courses as East
Potomac Park and Rock Creek Park
for the devotees of the game who use
the municipal links. None OF the
courses in Baltimore approaches the
quality of either Of the Washington
public links.
Columbia has new siege gun IN
Comdr. A. H. Douglas, who is attached
to the Anacostia Naval Station, and
who, according to the men with whom
he plays at Columbia, can knock golf
ball from here to there with greater
ease and certainty than any amateur
akns,t the rayaitol (,on1dr C. B. Hatch
plays with Douglas frequently and de-
. nlaras that TOo,,0Iae hits az long a ball