Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-14

looks very good 10 us, mas Deen
submitted to Bannockburn by Charles
H. Banks, prominent course architect,
as the major part of a move toward
reconstruction of the course near Glen
Echo. Md.
Although club officials do not say
the club will proceed with acceptance
of the plans, they are enthusiastic
about the prospect as laid before them
and declare that if the proper arrange
ments can be made Bannockburn will
have a course second TO none in this
section.
The layout, under the Banks plan,
would be about $500 yards long, with
a par eff 10. and only three l-shot
holes. complete change, of the pres
ent plan of the course Is in prospect,
as the plan provides for many new
holes and will utilize many of the nat
ural features of the hilly terrain.
The present Bannockburn course
measure only 1926 yards and Is DIS
tinctly on the short side, even though It
has three par-5 holes. But it also mas
six par-) holes with par of 10, which
has been broken several times this year.
Details of the plan are not to be
made public pending further negotla-
tons with Banks.
A new way has been discovered to
play that veXing seventeenth hole at
the Washington Golf and Country Club.
What with hard ground and the slop-
ing hillside rolling so many golf balls
into the ditch at the left, many OF the
members did not know what to do.
The carry of $50 yards over the trees
was too much for them and to prevent
going in the ditch they had to play
practically at right angles TO the proper
line.
Finally Dorie c. Gruver stood on the
extreme left side of the tee and had
bright idea. why can't I play my ball
down the eighteenth fairway. using the
natural slope of the ground to bring 1t
around?" he thought, and proceeded to
put it into execution. His first two
attempts went out of bounds but he
finally got the groove of the shot and
now he plays it every time he comes TO
the seventeenth. He was on the green
twice in succession on this 350-yard
hole and reached it three times In flVe
attempts, which is a much better aver
age than the fellows who play the ball
over the trees can boast.
But. then, Gruver has been knocking
the ball so far these days that nothing
short of a 400-yard hole sdaunts him.
He has driven the fifth green several
times and has done such astonishing
things as driving hole high on the tenth.
Ralph Thresher of the municipal
architects Office is the hero of the
longest hole-in-one made on local
course this year. Thresher holed MS
tee shot on the shortened first hole at
Rock Greek Park a few days ago, hit
tins a long ball that carried down at
the left side of the fairway. bumped
along the hard ground and rolled ntso
the hole on the temporary green. Tine
regular green Is 304 yards from tile
tee, but was not in use at the time
Thresher made his lengthy tee shot.
witnesses to the ST vt were d. D. Moore
and Chick O'Daniels.
The previous longest hole-in-one was
made several weeks ago at Congress
sional by J. E. Mcclure, who played the
256-yard eighteenth in a single stroke
The seventeenth at Rock Creek Park
was made in one stroke few days ago
by a man named Sternherger, who failed
to leave his name with Harry Graham,
the course manager, or a certified score
card. Think of the ginger ale, cigar
cites, golf balls and other presents he
will not. get.
Nine matches have been decided IN
the COIHp6IlblOIl lOE Lie IIkuScdaOH cup
among senior golfers of the Chevy Chase
Club. but not one has been ZION on the
course. All the matches have been
won by default.
James d. Preston. imprasario of pub
lie links golf in Washington, who an
nounced several weeks ago that he
would attempt TO secure the national
public links championship for the Capt.
tai m 1892, has started the ball rolling
With Congressional already on record as
possible venue for the womens ma
tional in 1882, Frederick v. Fischer, ex-
ecutiHe officer of the George Washing
ton Bicentennial Commission, has writ
ten the United States Golf Association
asking that earnest confederation be
given by the national golf body to the
proposition that q national tournament
come to Washington m the bicentennial
year.
The last national tourney held here
was the public links championship of
1923, and before that Columbia held
the national open In 1921. Several of