Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08

ITHE District Of Columbia Coli
Association will meet tomorrow
night at o'clock at the Racquet
Club, and the lineup Of events,
as laid out at O recent executive COM
mittee meeting, indicates that the Chevy
Chase Club and the Manor Club will
be the scene Of the two major tourna-
ments on the 1881 calendar Of the local
golf organization.
Chevy Chase Club is to be asked to
take the District amateur champion
ship on date in the middle Of Sep
TENDER, according to the tentative sched-
ule arranged by the District aSsoci-
alton, while the Manor Club will be
asked to hold the junior championship
for the Albert r. Mackenzie Trophy.
Dates have not been chosen, OF course,
nor have the clubs definitely been
| named as those at which the cham
pionships will be played, but the proba-
bility is that the slate will go through
as outlined. The junior championship
usually antedates the amateur title
event by a few days, which would
schedule the junior event for early
| September.
Frank K. Roesch of the Washington
Golf and Country Club now holds the
District amateur championship, won
| last year in a grueling struggle with
John G. Shorey of Bannockburn, after
this pair reached the final day of play
deadlocked in a struggle for supremacy.
Roesch won by a single stroke. The
junior title is held by Russell Bowen of
| Argyle, who won in the play-off of a
tie at the Washington Golf and Country
| Club with Melvin Bennett of Congress
sional.
One of the major matters to be con-
sidered by the District association, ac-
cording to President Bruce L. Taylor,
Is the proposal for a district senior
event, to be open to golfers connected
with local clubs who have reached the
age of so years. Taylor proposes to
have the District association stage such
tourney each year and predicts that
1t will strike a popular chord with
many of the men who do not care to
play in invitation tournaments because
Of the predominance Of skill Of the
younger players.
TREENSKEEPER STEWART VIVA
" LEY of the Washington Golf and
Country Club thinks the time is
near when the club which does not
| nave WdDeIeQ IduWdyS Will DC COISlQtT-
ed behind the times. Speaking only
generally and not for the Washington
club, which has not considered fair
way watering system, Whaley declared
that the conditions which burned out
the fairways of the golf courses around
Washington last year are likely to
occur any Summer and cause untold
damage to the golf courses. Further
more, he added, shot making on
courses which have a fairway watering
system is far different from those which
do not have such a system. In other
words, Wnsley claims a course which
has watered fairways Is more difficult
than one which does not have such a
system.
One Of the clubs about washington
Is seriously considering installation Of
fairway watering system, while an
other-the Kenwood-already has an
nounced the entire 1S-hole layout is to
be equipped with such q system. Most
Of the local courses already have shown
| the effect of the mild weather and the
recent rains, and here and there on the
bare spots caused by last years drought
patches of grass are coming through
the top soil, bearing out the contention
of golf course authorities that the grass
will come back this year.
Just how much of 1t viii come back,