Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-14
%HE Washington Golf and Country
Club has joined the big parade
of golf organizations about


| Club has joined the big parade
! of golf organizations about
| washington which intends TO
bear down on the careless fellows VINO
qualify in a tournament, permit their
names to be drawn for the match-play
rounds and then forget the little detail
of appearing to play in their scheduled
matches.
I Chairman Fred D. Paxton of the CLUB
golf committee has announced that
after considerable discussion, the COM
mittee will rule out of future events
any man who defaults a tournament
match unless good and sufficient reason
| is forthcoming.
This means, Paxton says, that man
who defaults q match in the club golt
tournament must have a good reason
or he will be out OF the next tournament.
Paxton and the members OF MS COM
mittee maintain that a tournament oe-
fault Is one of the most unfair acts
golfer can perpetrate. He points out
that out of $50 odd players In the re-
cent invitation tournament OF the club,
only SO were able to qualify. scores OF
others would like to have been In the
event, he adds, but could not qualify,
and the men who defaulted in the sub
Sequent match-play rounds were grossly
unfair to those who did not qualify.
The Chevy Chase Club, where the
third big invitation tourney OF the sea-
son started today, has had a stringent
rule along this line for several years
and enforces 1t. This rule says
THE tournament committee reserves
- x51ha no rfininQftnn
in future club events any entrant who
qualities. permits his riame to be placed
in the pairings, and who subsequently
defaults, unless the reasons for such
default are acceptable to the commit
tee."
r. C. Montgomery of Washington IS
a modest fellow, who feels that even
the peak of golfing skill-a hole IN one
is worth only passing notice. MOI
until today did the yarn OF how Mont
gomery made an ace on the second hoie
at Washington leak out, and then only
in casual conversation between tWo
of the members of the game IN when
the ace was made. Montgomery played
his tee shot on the second hole with a
iipger. and the ball hit short OF the
green and ran into the hole. With MIN
were Dale Drain, Byron U. Graham and
w
j. E. Rice. -,
washington Club members will pay
increased dues, beginning in July. the
board of governors Of the Virginia Ciup,
faced with mounting annual deficit IN
certain portions of the club income, put
on a party for the members at the ciuo
house last night and between Watching
themselves in the movies taken at tour
nament time by Rudolph T. HarreH,
listening to the warbling of one OF the
club auartets and hearing Ralph Fowler
In dramatization of one OF Chic sales
masterpieces (the same one) the more
than 200 members present voted unani-
mously to increase the annual dues from
$50 to $100. beginning with the third
quarter of the year.
Announcement was made OF the re-
election of six members of the board Of
governors, as follows: Charles Fl. Do
ing, jr., president of the club; DR.. James
r. McClenahan, Ernest j. Swift, Frank
Upman. Charles T. Claggett and Q. L..
vesrhoff.
Mrs. ]. o. Rhyme of the Bannockburn
Golf Club, today is the holder of The
Evening Star golf trophy, which she
won yesterday in blanket finish in
the tourney at Indian Spring, with a