Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-22

THREE schoolboy golf teams will
compete this year In the inter-
high school series for the
Dawes cup, emblematic of the
high school team golf supremacy OF
the Capital. Only Central, Western
and Tech High Schools have been able
to muster together enough golfers to
enter teams in the annual affair on
which Central High School has had q
strange hold for several years past.
The first match will be played on
Saturday in Easter week at an unde-
termined course, and will be followed
by a round robin series in which all
three teams vii meet twice over neutral
courses.
The trophy for the high school golf
team championship was placed in COM
petition four years ago by Charles O.
Dawes, then Vice President Of the
United States.
A NEW handicap system which will
"A give a clearer idea of the game
of any golfer over a lengthy
stretch Of play may be put INTO use
by the Congressional Country Club this
year, while over at Washington officials
of the Virginia club are taking cogni-
zance Of the fact that the handicaps
of the golfers Of tic club, If based on
the Calkins system, are too low when
they play on other courses than their
own.
Both Congressional and Washington
are shortly to start a series Of intra-
club matches handicap affairs, whose
main purpose 1t will be to have the
members turn in cards which will give
the Handicap Committees definite
idea as 10 how each player may be
handicapped. Sandy Armour, the Con-
gressional pro- tells us that a new
handicapping system called the Bear
system, is under consideration at Con-
greSsional. This system differs from
the Calkins system in that 1t compels
the player to turn in all his cards
not merely his i've best-and thus will
give q definite line on his average play
throughout the season, and not on his
very best efforts. It seems to me that
such q system would work much bet
ter than q system based on the aver
age of the five best or q percentage Of
that average, for under the present
system 1t Is almost hopeless for a
golfer with handicap Of or less to
compete in handicap events with men
who have handicaps of IL or m1re.
"One or more Of EN-" as Cy Cummins
says, always gets hot and forgets to
take ae9 somewhere along the route. F"
The Baer system, as explained by
Armour, viii give the rating Of the
players normal game rather than his
best, and will furnish q graph Of the
above average and below average games
he scores.
Ray J. Norman, chairman Of the
Handicap Committee at washington,
believes that the handicaps at his
club are too low when Washington
players go to other courses. They may
be all right for washington, the chair
man of the committee believes, but
they are not right for other courses So
Norman is considering recommending
to his committee that they secure the
average Of the flve best scores of the
members, which is the meat of the
Calkins system, and add an arbitrary
two strokes to the average Of the flve
best. THIS would give q Oman under
the Calkins system an actual handicap
of four strokes, and If continued right
up the line to the higher handicaps,
would work out satisfactorily all the
way up and down the scale. OF course,
IL man takes particular pride in hav-
ing a low handicap, by producing his
score cards he may have the arbitrary
two strokes Topped of, but for general