Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-04
FINAL BIC EVENT
ON NEARBY LINKS
$50 or More Due to Compete
Next Week-JuniorS Are
Playing Today.
TOURNAMENTS follow on tourna.

TOURNAMENTS follow on tourna-
ments in this merry season of
near-Fall. Even while nearly
SO of the leading amateur golfers
of the city were playing today in the
first two rounds of the elongated Dis
trict amateur championship at Burning
Tree, and with the junior championship
only a day out of the way, scores Of
linksmen who do not care for tourna-
ments of the championship brand are
looking forward to the Bannockburn
event next week. Something like $50
golfers-or more-will tramp over the
hills near Glen Echo in the search for
an occasional par, with maybe birdie
thrown in.
The Bannockburn invitation event
will be the last big affair Of the year
for the simon pures within striking
distance of the Capital. The Annapolis
Roads Club may hold a tournament in
October, and there will be club affairs
scattered through September and Oc-'
tober, but the Bannockhurn tourney
winds up the schedule of big affairs for
the clubs in the immediate neighbour
hood of the links-bound Capital.
Chairman Fred Byrne of the Ban
nockburn golf committee and DR.. T. j.
W. Brown of the green's committee are
making every effort to put the Bannock-
burn layout in top notch shape for TIVE
coming event, and are getting no help
from the weather in bigger and better
way. without rain of any appreciable
density since mid-June, and lacking
sufficient water for weeks, the course,
like others in the Washington area, has
suffered greatly from the drought. But
the Bannockburn tourney is more than
a gallop over a golf course. 1t is an
institution, and the men who will play
at Bannockburn next week will be con-
tent and glad to overlook the inroads
wrought by the drought to enjoy the
hospitality of the club.
Entries for the tournament will close
at noon next Monday, and should be
accompanied in all cases by the con-
testant's handicap. This is done for
the reason that Bannockburn again will
use the so-called "Pinehurst system" in
the qualification round. In other words,
the competitors must qualify in the
fight to which they are rated by their
club handicaps or else merely be spec
tators while their betters compete in
the match play rounds. The qualiflca-
LlO1 TOuIluS Will NC pldyCO AACAV WSA-
nesday and Thursday, with the four
conventional match play rounds to fol-
low on Friday and Saturday.
u OBERT BOWEN, 2o-year-old golfer
X Of the Argyle Country Club, is the
new Junior golf champion Of the
District. He coasted to an easy victory
in the play-off for the title yesterday
at the Washington Golf and Country
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Bennett of Congressional, with whom
he had tied on the previous day, COM
pletely collapsed.
Bowen scored 81 in the 18-hole play
off against SO for Bennett. Out in 40
against As for his rival, Bowen con-
tinued to add to his lead over the
last nine and at the conclusion was
II strokes in front of Bennett. They
had tied at 149 in the tourney on Tues
day.
Prizes were presented by DR.. Bruce
l.. Taylor, president of the District
association, who refereed the play-on.
Perry B. Hoover is the head man in
the ringer contest at the Indian Spring
Golf Club. Tabulation of the results
of the tourney, which closed on Labor
day, discloses that Hoover won the
selected score contest by a single stroke,
compiling a total of 81 for the tourney.
DR.. L. S. Otell and Elliott Spicer finish
ed second, with SIS, and Harold N.
Graves was fourth, with 56. Hoover
had two eagles in his card and had
brides on all the holes but three. Here
is the winning card, with par for the
course:
Out-Par "A 4 4 4 4 3 5 4 3-35
Hoover .....3 3 3 3 4 2 3 3 3-27
In-par ....4 a 3 4--36-71
Hoover .....3 3 4 5 2 4 3 2 3-27-54
Hoover bagged eagles on the seventh
and sixteenth holes. but was unable to
better par on the fifth, ninth and
twelfth holes.
Three prizes will be put up by the
Women's District Golf Association in
the competition for the Corby Cup, at
Columbia on September 90, Mrs. Frank
r. Keefer, president of the women's
organization, announced today. The
Corby Cup will 60 to the low net win
ner, and in addition low gross prize
and second low net prize will be
offered
Woman players of the city will gather
next Monday at the Congressional
Country Club to play in a miniature
tourney under the auspices of the as
ISOLATION.