Evening star., 1930-05-23
.HE teeth are slowly being drawn
from that banling and exasper-
ating first nine at the Manor

from that baffling and exasper-
atinr frst nine at the Manor
Club. The woods through which
the first nine has been cut, where tall
trees stand like silent sentinels waiting
for the golf ball struck few yards on
the line, will remain as they are, but
most of the smaller growths are being
cut away, and the underbrush cleared
out until all you have to do now to get
out, of the woods Is to carry q flock OF
horseshoes in your golf bag, connde IN
o wishing ring and then pray Is you
hit the ball.
The greens committee went into q
huddle and decided that there was not
enough room on the fifth and ninth
fairWays, for these are both dog-leg
holes and the ball can be struck 50 lar
1t will 90 across the correct territory
into trouble beyond. They agreed that
there should be no trouble If the ball
is struck too far on the right line, put
they kept the trouble on either side OF
the line, and the net result has been
that the ninth and NTH farways nave
been widened considerably.
Considerable criticism came to the
committee last season that the ninth
fairway narrowed too much up near the
green, considering that the second shot
had. to be played far to the right IN
order that It might kick down the hill
into the proper position to reach the
green on the third shot. SO Chairman
Thomson caused the woods at the right
to be cleared out, renovated, dry cleaned
and put back in place, and now
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the green no longer will be apt TO NIT
several and sundry trees and fiop back
into the woods.
Mrs. .. G. Hartig has been named
chairman Of the women's golf commit
tee at the Manor Club, taking the place
OF Mrs. II. B. Hird, who has resigned
the post, owing TO lack OF time. MRS.
Hartig, who Is one Of the prominent
golfers Of the Norbeck institution, will
draw up q schedule Of women's events
shortly.
John c. shorey is today the holder
of the George Washington University
golf championship. The Bannockburn
Golf Club star and recent winner OF
the Woodmont Country Club tourna.
ment annexed the title yesterday AZ
East Potomac Park, downing John
Thacker. also q Bannockburn member,
by 5 and 4. Shorey defeated John
owens to reach the Anal, while Thacker
won from Charles w. Cole, jr.
rinalists in the tourney for the
French High Commission Cup for wom-
en- at the Chevy Chase Club today
were Mrs. Hume Wrong, medalist IN
the event, and Mrs. A. S. Merrill. Mrs.
Wrong defeated Mrs. John =. Dryden
by the overwhelming margin OF ana
in one semi-final match yesterday,
while Mrs. Merrill found sterner oppo-
sition in Mrs. w. j. Flather. whom she
beat by 8 and /. The Anal round IN
the consolation will be player BY MRS.
Frank R. Keefer, president OF the
Women's District Coli Association, ana
Mrs. Harrison Brand, jr.
Several golfers who plan TO play in
the championship tourney Of the Mid
die Atlantic Golf Association early in
June are planning q trip next week TO
the James River course Of the Country
Club of Virginia. where the tourney
will be played. .
The championship will be played
June s, 6 and for the title now held
by B. Warren Cochran Of the Baltimore
Country Club, won by him last year
over his home course. Among those