Evening star., 1930-12-02
r. JAMES T. McCLENAHAN,
chairman of the washington
Golf and Country Club Golf

Golf and Country Club Golf
Committee, now believes that
luck comes in quadruple doses. He
proved it to his own satisfaction over
the week end by the route of a hole
that some one made in the valley
below the thirteenth green at the Viz
ginia course. Now DR.. McClenahan, as
chairman of the Greens Committee, has
job seeing to it that holes and such
places on the course are filed up. But.
some one in thte match just
in front Of him dug this particular hole,
and he did not have time to I'LL it up
before the McClenahan golf ball rolled
into it.
Down under the thirteenth green
there Is a gully leading down toward
the big ditch which drains that part Of
the course. When 1t rainS-if ever
that gully carries of the water which
runs down that way, and naturally all
golf balls struck in that direction, with
the tendency of all good golf balls TO
seek the lowest level, run down that
gully and stay there. Well, naturally,
the gully having caught lot OF golf
balls, it has become somewhat scooped
out by the efforts Of the golfers to
knock those balls out of the depression
up crlto the green. And as golf balls In
numbers have gone down in that gully,
1t has become quite gully-a gully
near the peak Of its development, as 1t
were.
DR.. McClenahan knocked out what he
thought was fine second shot last Sat-
urday, and was somewhat dismayed to
find that the ball, instead Of climbing
the bank to the green, had turned and
come to rest in the gully and in hole
in the gully. He took mighty wallop
at 1t, and 1t ran up the bank, turned
and started rolling down. Hopefully
he watched, praying that It would not
stop in the big divot hole he had made.
But down 1t came to rest In that same
hole, and he finally picked 1t up.
Sunday he pounded out long tee
shot which rolled over the hill 225 yards
from the tee and should have left him
an easy shot to the green. But the
errant bali rolled too far down toward
the left and when McClenahan came up
to it, there 1t was resting In the divot
hole he had made the day before. He
took another mighty swipe at 1t and 1t
rolled up to the top of the hill, turned
around and came back, agsin rolling into
the same hole. BY this time the hole
was chasm, for DR.. McClenahan does
not baby a golf ball. He Is a man of
vigor and when he takes a swipe at a
ball with an iron club. sometimes he
scars the ground considerably. Well.
there was that ball lying in his own
divot hole. and there was the green far
above. And finally he picked up the
ball, vowing that not more than few
hours would pass before that hole was
Ad ffYn V1A m 4
a ball will never roll into that particular
hole again.
Over at Bannockburn tonight the
club members are to vote on whether
or not the operations Of the club win be
continued, which sounds Ike sinister
statement for Bannockburn's future, but
in reality is not so serious. The call Of
the board of governors for the special
meeting tonight sets forth that the club
activities may be discontinued, II the
membership feels that way, but the
situation is not so serious as 1t sounds.
The plain truth of the matter, we are
informed, Is that the membership will
be asked to vote on whether few thou
sand dollars will be scent on the golf
course by way of rebuilding the putting
greens, or whether an entirely new
course viii be constructed under plans
laid before the club by Charles H.
Banks, golf course architect. In any
case, we are informed, the club win con-
tinue as q going organization. The
meeting is scheduled for $3.50 O'Clock.
THOSE hardy gents over at the Army,
i Navy and Marine Corps Country
Club have played a round dozen
matches in their "snowbird" tourney,
in which almost the entire goldng mem
bership Of the club has entered. Know
ing that Winter is here, they still per-
mi"tcd their names to be drawn for
tire match play rounds and are PLAYING
the tourney. which may last through
most of December.
Here are the pairings and results of
the matches played to date in the four
flights:
FIRST hight-H. r. Helm vs. B. C..
Lockwood, Maj. Jones vs.. w. A. Ang-
win. Payne VS.. Young, A. G. Bennet VS.
A. p. Hume, E. M. Kintz VS.. Chapman.
D. A. Brown VS.. @. M. Brown, J.. w.
Fowler VS.. z. A Nash. G o. Thrasher VS.
I. c. Bogart, B. r. Olmstead VS.. L. r.
Kimball, G. II. Bandholtz vs.. r. Hem,
d. r. Lewis VS.. A. +. Howard. II. c.
Minton VS.. r. 8. Barr, e r. Ely VS.. p. r.
Rapsom. NJ. G. Bristol VS.. II. r. Bull.
Davis VS.. c. p. George, s. A. 0reenwell
vs. S. F. Mashbir.
Second fiight-R. r. Glass defeated J.
L. Nestor. 8 and z: M. r. Guggenheim
defeated G. f. Humphret, and 3; Pike
VS.. Clark, Doyle VS.. +. s. Hughes r. A.
Sanderson vs.. Herrick. j. p. Hasson
VS.. r. H. Forman, c. d. Buck VS.. p
Washizn, Osborne ys. Z. H Marks, W.
r. Ritter defeated W. M. Robertson by
default: @. A. Meals vs.. s. A. Olson,
n. G. Cooke VS.. w. g. Rose, Z. p. Rice
vs.. B. T. Merchant. p ". II. Kimball
vs.. j.. T.. Menxie, Y. Hirata w. w. A
Warley, w. II. Maris vs.. q. o. Day. l.
" Steele Ys r. A. Dawes. -