Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-13

officers of the military
~ services of the Nation for
- a great all-sports country
club, located near the Nations
Capital, is rounding into a reality.
The present 18-hole golf course Of
the Army-Navy Country Club, To-
Gated in the hills of Arlington
County, Va, a brassie shot or two
from Fort Myer and the wireless
towers at Arlington, is only little
more than three years old, but
already plans are in the making
for another 18-hole golf course of
championship length, to be start
ed next Fall and completed next
year, which will give the service
club larger golf facilities than
any golf organization around the
Capital
Col. A. j. Cooper, chairman Of the
club Golf Committee, today announced
that a new 1s-hole golf course will be
started in the Fall to be about 6,400
yards in length, Of championship caliber,
TO be ready some time next year, de-
signed to relieve crowded conditions on
the present course. The new course will
lie generally north and west of the
present club house, which formerly was
used as the knights Of Columbus Coun-
try Club, but since has been remodeied
and converted into spacious club house
for the ARTny-Navy Country Club.
Much of the present golf course Of the
club lies in valley between the hills
over which a scouting party of Con-
federate cavalry pushed TO within gun
shot Of the Capital during the Civil
War. The new course will be built over
the hills which overlook this valley, and
will be of more rugged character than
the present layout. So far have the
plans for the new course gone that some
of the locations for the putting green's
already have been staked out.
over the present course will be held
~ next month an invitation golf tour
nament-the first to be staged by
the Army-Navy Country Club. Several
years hence, as soon as the new course
is In firSt-clags condition, the club viii
be in a position to hold two tourna-
ments on the same day. The new course
will give the Army-Navy Club golf facil-
tiles equaled by no club about the Capt.
tai. Only one other club in the I'M
mediate vicinity Of Washington-tn,es
Baltimore Country Club-has two golf
courses. but the Army-Navy Club viii
be unique in that both courses win be
within easy reaching distance Of the
one club house. The Five Farms course
of the Baltimore Country Club Is 6
miles away from the Roland Park main
The work of building the new golf
course will be started by Mai Richard
ID. Newman, who laid out the present
course from an airplRae aided by topo-
graphic maps Of the country.
WITH q potential membership OF
w many thousands of officers of the
services scattered all over the globe
the Army-NaVy Country Club has an
actual membership Of more than 1000.
Many of them are golfers, and the pres
ent golf facilities are taxed to the ut
most. The development Of the new
course is the answer to the present over
taxed golf facilities.
from its beginning four years ago
dreamt Of the time when the club viii
be q national headquarters for aIl sports
in which service oSicers take part. At
present golf, tennis and swimming are
the major sports at the club, but some
day II Is hoped to build series OF polo
fields on which Army polo contests may
be played.
Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes. former Dis
triet woman golf champion, has been
given q lower handicap in the Maryland
State woman's ratings than the present
holder of the District title-MTs. Betty
p Meckley. Mrs. Haynes, according 70
the handicap ratings made public today,
has a handicap Of strokes In the
Maryland Womens Association. against
2 for Mrs Meckley Miss Virginia HolE-
derber, outstanding woman player OF
MARYLAND. has been given handicap.
The handicaps given the other Wash
snRton women follow: Dorothy Hunter,
Indian Spring, Z Mrs. j. w. Harvey, j.,
indian Spring, l6, Mrs. James w Bel
Ter, Columbia, 7; Mrs. j. +. Dowdal,
Congressional, and Mrs. J. Q. Rhyme,
Congressional, Is. and Mrs. Harry a.
Knox, Congressional, II.
FTTHE scheduled match between Co
Il lunnbia and Indian Spring wom-
ems golf teams was postponed
YESTERDAY because OF the absence Of
many Of the team members from the
city. Indian Spring announced That
ali its matches scheduled for the next
few davs will be postponed until Au-
gust 90
Fred Mcleod the Columbia profess
sional, who underwent an operation on
his throat two weeks ago has had a
slight relapse and has been ordered
back TO bed by his physician Mcleod
had not been able to play golf for more
than three weeks, and probably viii
not be starter in the qualifying
rounds for the Professional Golfers
Association championship, scheduled 10
be played at the Five Farms course
near Baltimore a week from tomorrow
Bob Barnett and Gene Lzrkin Of Chew
Chase plan 10 practice over the Five
Farms course tomorrow
Archie Clark and Dick Cook, OF the
professional STATS Of Congressional and
Annapolis roads. have arranged a chal-
Ienge match with Walter Cunningham
OF Burning Tree and "Bricl-" Wood Of
Washington. 70 be played shortly a.
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