Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-11
w YITH final decision to be made
NN/ Monday night at a meeting
of the board of governors as
IN uhether the club is to

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to whether the club is to
hold an invitation golf tournament this
year the golf committee of the Congress
sional Country Club today announced a
few of the events that are to enlven
the season at the big golf organization
out Rockville way. The committee con-
sists OF Guy Mason, chairman; Page
Hufty, secretary, and Whitney Leary,
DR.. Bruce L. Taylor and DIR. Howard
Strine, with Capt A. ]. Gore and Alex
A. Armour, the club professional, serving
in advisory capacity.
A ringer tournament. which will run
from April Is to october Is, with all
play at scratch. will lnaugurate the sea-
SON. Prizes will be offered for the win
ner and runner-up, and score sheets are
to be posted in the golf shop. With en-
tries to be filed with the club pro.
A Spring handicap match play tour
nament will be held April u, the winner
to receive a silver cup and the runner
up to receive a medal. Entries Tor this
event will close at pm. April 20. An
allowance of three-fourthS of the diff
ference in handicaps between contest
ants will be made for the match play
be played one each week thereafter.
Congressional plans a big club flair
May 80. an 18-hole handicap medal play
event. with prizes for low gross, low net,
second low gross and second and third
low net. All prizes will be medals.
On June 8 a mixed Scotch foursome
will be played, each pair Of contestants
to play one ball at 10 holes medal play,
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caps will be one-half of the combined
handicaps of the partners, and two
prizes will go to the winners and two
to the runnerS-up.
Following its usual custom, Congress
Sional will hold its annual club dinner
the evening of November 3, when all
prizes won during the year will be
awarded to the successful contestants.
Replies to the QUESTIONABLE sent to
club members inquiring their wish as
to whether a Spring invitation golf
tourney will be held indicate the over
whelming view of the golfers that the
club abandon its big tourney for this
year. However, the matter will come up
at the board meeting Monday night for
final action.
Just to show the boys that he can
knock golf ball from here to there
without great deal of Spring practice,
Maurice j. Mccarthy, the metropolitan
champion and nominee for the Walker
Cup team, parked his tee shot in the
middle of the seventeenth green at the
Washington Golf and Country Club
yesterday. The distance over the trees
from tee to green is in the neighbor-
hood of 800 yards. The hole, as it is
played normally, with an iron shot from
the tee and a pitch over the creek
to the green, measures 367 yards. High
trees bar the short way to the green
for the normal hitter, but men like Nc
earthly disdain such things as trees
which demand maximum height of
drive at the tail end of its carry. They
go boldly for the green, as did Mccarthy
yesterday, and If they are successful
the ball jumps the shallow trap at the
left of the green and ends on the put
ting surface. It is a great shot for big
hitterS, although none but the big hit
tiers dare try it. Mccarthy appears to
be knocking the ball further than ever
this year. On the sixth he hit his tee
shot within so yards of the green on
this uphill 374-yard hole and on the
seventh he hit it so far his second shot
was nothing more than maShie niblick
on this 434-yard affair. He was play
ing in four-ball match with Frank
K. RoeSch, r. T. Harrell and Ward
Bowlers who organized a league of
pin spillers from the Washington Golf
and Country Club plan to enter team
or two in the Washington City Duckpin
Association tourney to be held shortly
Henry TAFT Rodier, local sport impress
ario and bowling enthusiast, Is Spon-
soring the move to have the Washing
ton bowlers enter team in the duck
pin tourney and hopes teams from sew
eral other clubs may enter the event.
Manor has a strong team headed by
Harry G. Pitt, according to Rodier, and
Bannockburn also has a team, which
might include Harry F. Krauss, one of
the National Capitals outstanding
bowlers. Rodier hopes to have a num-
Der of teams entered from the golf
clubs about the Capital, and as an en-
tering wedge in this bowling-golf COM
bination plans to have the Washington
team make the first move. Next Winter
he hopes to establish a bowling league
made up of teams from the various
golf clubs near the Capital.
Employees of the Washington Golf and
.Cnuntrv Cluh TO-DAY were mailing out to