Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
J REVIVE OLD-T|ME
! TEAM PLAY TODAY
Forty Members of Each Club
to Shoot-Chevy Chase
Grass Defies Heat.
BY WALTER r.. McCALLUM.

Oh WALLER NJ NNCSAAASh.
q OMETHING like 40 members
of the Washington Golf and
Country Club are to be en-
tertained this afternoon by
an equal number of their friends
of the Columbia Country Club.
The Washington players have
been asked to be at the Columbia
Club for luncheon at 1890 and
then will play round of golf. No
teams, as such, will be chosen,
but the matches are to be ar
ranged at the first tee, with two
men from each club playing in
4ourSomeS.
Not since the old-time team matches
of somewhat unhappy memory, has a
match been played between Co
lumbia and Washington, and today's
affair likely will be followed by a re-
turn engagement at Washington. The
team matches iapsed-or rather, were
allowed to lapSe-because they were I'M
popular with the rank and ME OF the
club golfers. But todays affair between
Washington and Columbia is entirely
different, for the game has nothing of
a formal nature about it and consists
only of group of about 80 friends get
IIle CoSeIIlel Aol d AlAeiluly AouiAu VA
golf.
Such affairs. in our opinion, are
much more fun than the old formal
challenge matches, in which the con-
teStantS played as If much more than
club honor was at stake. Indeed, the
tenseneSs of the combats was one of the
reasons why the clubs discontinued the
matches, together with poStponementS,
and the fact that during the Summer
49, ll,.l~s Ill tn
get together representative team be-
cause so many golfers preferred to go
out of town over the heated week ends
to playing in the team matches. Most
golfers like competition but they pre-
fer competition with their own friends
and like to make their own matches,
rather than have them made for them.
OF all the golf courses about Wash.
~ ington which we have played dur
ing the heated spell, we have no
hesitancy in saying that the falrways
at Chevy Chase, on the whole, have
withstood the neat in better shape than
those at most of the other clubs. IN
doubtedly this comes about because the
Chevy Chase fairways are older than
those at most of the other clubs, have
a heavier stand of grass in consequence
of their age, and because of the gently
fewer washes when it rained-if it ever
did. Even today, after two months
without rain enough to thoroughly wet
the grass, the fairWays at Chevy Chase
have grass on them, although 1t IS
burned and brown. However, below the
ball there is something to go into be-
sides clay and dirt and divot can be
taken with less likelihood OF Huftng
the shot than at most of the other
courses.
TTIOMAN golfers of the city are to
w play tomorrow morning at the
Columbia Country CLUB in match
play handicap tourney. Palrings Will
be made at the first tee and prizes Will
be put up for low gross and low net.
IRON Saratoga Springs, N. Y, where
II the Summer racing season is on
comes word that James G. G. Cor
coran of the Washington Golf and
Country Club has set course record
of SO for the Ballston Spa layout Cor
coran shot the first nine holes In 81
strokes and duplicated that score on the
second nine. He was playing with
Harry D. eastman. also OF washington.
who is referred to in the accounts OF
Corcoran's record score as
"Daddy" eastman, and called the
sporting editor of a New York news
paper. Harry used to be newspaper
man himself, but has been out of the
news-writing game for many years.
THAT night golf experiment con-
i Quoted at the Manor Club last
Thursday night with the aid of
lights hung over the shoulders Of the
players. may lead to development of the
game at night to some degree about
WASHINGTON, in the opinion OF Harry
c. Pitt. Playing with Pitt were Al
Treder, pro at Manor; George Richard
son, E. B. Baxter of Manor and j. B.
Murphy of Columbia. They played
eight holes with the aid of the lights
and only one ball was lost, when Bax-
ter flubbed his tee shot at the fourth
hole and lost the ball in ditch. The
best ball of the quintet was "a, and
between them they made four brides.
Treder and Pitt halved hole in birdie
IS, while Baxter ran down lengthy
putt for birdie 2 on the second hole.
II MONRO HUNTER, JR., winner of
II, the Maryland Country Club tour
nament, looms these days as
distinct threat to win the junior and
senior championships of the District
next month Hunter has been knock
ing the ball around Indian Spring in
the low 70s for several months, and
only last week romped home with a
under par. He played the first
nine holes in a. had luncheon, and
then played the last nine in IS, for
his SO, the best mark he ever has made
on the course.
Hunters game, bit inclined to
looseness last season, has frightened up
considerably this year, and today he
is about as hard a golfer to beat as
any amateur about the city. Always
able to hit long tee shot, he has
frightened up his short game and Is
putting very well. He is not quite able
to keep up with his dad from the tee,
however, for the elder Hunter has Sc
cured a new driver with what he calls
q tin shaft" with which he knocks
the ball astounding distances from the
tee. The other day he hit one so far
on the par seventh hole that he
played his second shot to the green
with q maShie-niblick.
NUITE a group of Washington golf
~ ers are planning to watch the
: amateur championship at Merton
late next month. Ten or Is players
are planning to go to Philadelphia from
Columbia to watch Bobby Jones try to
make it a perfect year, and incidentally
to watch Miller B. STEVENSON and Harry
Pitt attempt to qualify. STEVENSON de-
clares Merton will be a fairly easy
course to score on during the champion
ship. Among those planning to go are
Pitt, j. B. Murphy, j. L.
Baines, Albert r. Mackenzie, Donald
Hugh Mackenzie. A. j.
Cummings, D. C.. Gruver, T. p. Noyes,