Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-23
TWO Dozen LIKELY ,
TO TILT TOMORROW
Greens Committee Chairman,
Plans Several Changes
in Course.

~ IG doings are on the ticket
~ for tomorrow at the Manor
Club, where teams Of more
- than q dozen players each
will line up across lengthy bat
tie front to play a match for the
dinners. Ray F. Clarity, chair
man OF the club Golf Committee,
Is out Of the city, but in. his alb
sence Harry G. Pitt, Manor's first
ranking golfer, will handle the
details Of the affair, aided by AL
Treder, the club pro.
just who the members Of the two
teams win be has not been revealed,
but probably there. will be something
like two dozen golfers arrayed against
each other.
Manor Is the scene Of considerable
golf activity these days, and almost
any day you 60 out there YOU can
hear the merry ring Of gutta-percha-
against the tall trees which fringe the
fairways Of that FIRST niHie. Dave Thorn.
son, chairman Of the graens commit
tee, plans several changes in the course
during the coming Fall and winter
changes which will lengthen the layout
and transform 1t from course con-
siderably on the short side into one
Of much greater length. Holes such an
the NTH and seventh are, to undergo.
changes by way of pushing the tees
back to make them longer. and there
also Is possibility that change will
be made at the ninth. For months
there has been talk about the ninth
green, which has q considerable sloUe-
from top to bottom. It may be rebuilt
to give it less slope and to make put
ting a less hazardous affair than It
now Is. Thomson also Is CONSIDERING
changes in the green's at the sixteenth
and seventeenth holes, which are part
Of the old Manor Club course.
These green's have not been rebuilt
for many years and now are considered
old fashioned, in that they are fiat
not strictly up to date. The physical
character Of the holes will remain un.>
changed, but the green's are TO be re-
built. - r
MEET week the night golf experiment
IN which was made q few days ago
at Manor Is to be repeated with
the same players who participated
In the original experiment billed to do
their stuff again with improved equip
fnent. j. b. Murphy, one Of the play
ers who took part in the night golf
tests several days ago, declares that
driving by fiasflight Is all right. and
putting Is quite as good as in the day.
time, but that the short pitch shots Of
100 yards and less are very hard to
judge. Shooting ct pin In the day.
time Is hard enough" Murphy says,
But shooting at little pin point ID.
light 100 yards away Is something else,
again. And If the pin Is on the edge
Of Q bunker you are In tough spot,
for you can't see the bunker. That, Is
the hardest part of night golf. You
can't see the hazards. But on the other
side of the picture, there Is no tempta-
ton to lift your head, for II you did,
you couldn't see the ball."
j. T. Powell inventor Of the appa-
ratus with which the first game of
night golf was played, promises better
equipment 6ff the next trial II
MYTH three teams drawing byes In
w the first round, the second round
Of play In the tourney for the
Barry-Pate Cup, emblen1atic OF the
two-mau championship Of the Ban-
nockburn Golf Club, win be concluded.
today. The third round VIII be played
next week. The cup was won last year
Pass Is playing with another partner
this year.
IF you finished the last three holes
i ct Columbia In 8, 8, 4 ana was
! up ct the sixteenth tee, you would
naturally expect to win the match by
hole or two, but Miller 3. Stevenson
finished that way against Tommy Bones
and lost the match by q single hole.
Bones holed putt for o deuce on the.
sixteenth, drove the seventeenth green
and holed tile putt for another winning
deuce, and halyed the eighteenth In
to win the match, up.
D ATHER Q bad break for Tommy
N Armour to unveil all his matri-
monial troubles. Just as he started
out In defense Of his western open
championship. Tommoy's 20 over the.
first round may have reflected the con.
dition Of his nerves.
MEET week win be the last open
In week without any bin golf events
for some time. The week which
opens the month Of September win md
number OF golf events scheduled &C
the local clubs on Labor day, and VIII
be followed by the junior and senior
District championships. The next week
win come the Banncckburn Golf Clubs I
invitation golf tournament and during
the latter part Of the month the ma
tional amateur championship VIII be
played. September promises to be q
month of busy golf competition, ma
conally and locally.