Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-02

gone aneaQ WIN Che1r schedule,
these two events.
McCarter is the author of a
about Washington each year, dur
rounds would be played at all the
District champion. Mason has CO
many Journeys in the Spring abo,
OF course the tournament dates have
not been definitely set, but it seems to
us that the schedule makers have made
a serious mistake in setting the dates
for the District junior championship
and the District amateur championship
for consecutive days. They drew up
schedule q few days ago at a prelin-
mary meeting of the executive COM
n1ittee which set the junior title chase
for September and the amateur cham
pionship for September and 5.
VIII be Held Early.
Both tournaments are to be held I'M
usually early this year, according to
these dates for hot weather extends
well into September around Washing
ton, but the fact that the two events
are being held on consecutive days
seems to be bad piece of schedule
making. The District junior is a So
hole medal play event, and the District
amateur is q 72-hole medal play tour
ney.
There are several youngsters about
the Capital who are quite capable of
winning the District amateur cham
pionship, and who also will play In the
District junior. TO ask them to play
10S holes Of hard medal play In three
days seems to US to be unfair. Such
procedure would make them tired lads
before the District amateur has gotten
well under way, and the men who are
fresher would have q decided edge
Probably the schedule makers will
change these dates. They should be
changed in fairness to the juniors, and
the District amateur should be set for
a date later than the early part Of Sep
TENDER.
Roland r. Mackenzie Of Columbia
who has been chosen by the United
| States Golf Association as a member of
the Walker Cup team. has heard moth
ing from the association regarding the
| possibility that he may go abroad as
| team member, but he probably will 60
| abroad just the same. Word has come
from the Pacific Northwest that Don K
| Moe, the Western amateur champion
and a regular team member, has de-
cided not to forego his studies in order
| to make the trip abroad. thus leaving q
| vacancy on the team. Maurice j. Nc
| Carthy OF New York, who is a student
at Georgetown University, is recovering
| from injuries suffered in a recent au-
tomobile accident. He expects his
| SheepSkin In June and probably would
! not take two months from his studies
to go abroad with the team. So Roland
Mackenzie automatically falls into line
for the vacancy under the alternate
system used by the U. s. G. A. 1t is
understood that the entire team, con-
cd Af ale
mates, will be asked to 90 abroad this
year. Roland now is in Washington and
may locate in business here. We played
with him at Columbia last Wednesday
and saw lad whose game, If possible
| has improved. He was around the
course in 70 strokes, with a number Of
| missed and foot puts, on a day
when conditions were hardly good for
frst-class golf.
The Walker Cup team is booked to
sail for England on the Mauritania
from New York on April 80, arriving in
England on May 6. At present nego-
tiations are under way for them to play
| the Oxford Cambridge Society at Rye
on May IL, and 1t also is possible that
the team members will play for the ST.
Georges Vase on May 10 at Sandwich
The Walker Cup matches will be played
| on May is and Is, and IL Is probable
that match will be arranged with
Moles Golfing Club at Working on May
| 18. Rumors have it that Bobby Jones,
captain of the team, expects to go to
Germany to play in the German anna
teur championship on June 5 at Wann-
see. 1t Is certain he will play in the
British open at Sandwich and in the
British amateur later. The latter title
Is the one big national championship
that has so far eluded the great At
lanta SHOEMAKER.
The 16 members Of the Washington
Golf and Country Club who were among
the Capital golfers who went to Viz
ginia Beach over the last week end, or
ganized golf tournament among them
selves, and r. j. Norman and J. Z.
Rice were the winners. In so far as pos
Sible an effort was made to pair high
handicap player and low handicap
player together, and Rice and Norman
were successful in the medal play event.
The cross mound at the top of the
hill at the second hole at Columbia has
been cut down and no longer menaces
the low tee shot or the topped drive.
The new first tee below the tournament
tee at Columbia has been reSodded and
will be ready for play as soon as the
season opens, probably within fort
night A new barn is being constructed
to replace the one which burned down
early in the Winter.
J. Monro Hunter and George Diffen-
baugh, the famed Indian Spring pro-
fessional best ball combination, which
has not been beaten on an even basis
in more than two years, caught pair
Of tartars the other day in a match at
Indian Spring and bowed before the
steady golf Of j. v. Brownell and j. W.
Harvey. The amateurs were conceded
liberal handicap, however, and they
beat the pros handily.
J. Monro Hunter, IT,, son of the big
hitter of Indian Spring, has been prac-
ticing diligently for the past two weeks
and is playing exceptionally well A
| few days ago he played the first nine
at Indian Spring in 80 strokes.
Dave Thomson, professional, of WASH
ington has q deserved reputation as an
accurate putter and clipper from
how good he Is just the other day when
he holed q chip shot from the upper
edge Of the ninth green at Washington
for birdie 2, with one of his opponents
lying not more than q foot from the
hole for birdie. Everything hinged on
Thompson'S shot and he holed the chip
for half in with A. w. Howard, who
had played q beautiful shot from the
tee to within foot of the hole.
Every golfer at washington knows
how hard 1t Is to get down In two puts
of the sixth green, but it remained for
DR.. 7. D. Webb to demonstrate that It
can be done in one putt. He holed a
| putt fully so feet long from thu hollow