Evening star., 1931-06-27
y HAT big bronze trophy emble-
matte of the Maryland State
golf team championship may

HAT big bronze trophy emble-
matte of the Maryland State
golf team championship may
rest at the Indian Spring Golf
Club for a long time unless the plans
of the Maryland State Golf Association
to abandon the team matches next Fall
are changed between now and next
October.
Team matches in this sector OF the
land, it seems, have never gone over in
big way, and reports emanatillg from
Baltimore headquarters of the State as
sociation have 1t that urless the luke
warm attitude of the Washington clubs
toward the team matches Is changed
there will be no team matches next
Fall, when the teams from some II or
is clubs normally would get together IN
an elimination series for the big bronze
trophy of a vigorous young go1er who
has just knocked golf ball for loop.
Even though Indian Spring won the
team championship of the Old Free
State last Fall in a final rou.id cgainst
the team from the Columbia Country
Club, it is plain that the team matches
of the State association have not had
the heartieSt sort Of reception, and 1t is
no secret that several of the Washing
ton clubs will not enter teams in the
competition. If it is held at all. this year.
Sensing this attitude, officials of the
State association have dropped hints
within the past few weeks that there
will be no team matches this year.
And so the big bronze figure OF a
golfer, minus the club with which he
hit the ball, may remain at Indian
Spring for some time unless the officers
of the Maryland association claim it TO
grace the association Offices. AT Indian
Spring, however. the club golfers are
keen to play in the matches again, even
though Indian Spring apparently is the
only Washington club which wants TO
see the team matches perpetuated.
Team contests around Washington
have remained dead. For some reason,
golfing folks would rather get out in
friendly four-ball match. miss their
shots, indulge in a little mild cussing
and lose their dollar Nassau without
losing anything else by way Of honor
for dear old Sleepy Valley. Team
matches, with all the atmosphere of
challenge and tense competition, seem
to bore a lot of folks who would rather
play in. friendly competition than In
one on which everything depends.
Some years back there were team
matches played between the clubs
around Washington, and some one put
up a silver cup as a team championship
trophy. But after two or three years
Of overheated competition the matches
died a ma tural death. For some years
back In the old days the Middle At
lantic Golf Association staged home
and-home team matches between clubs
in various cities. But these also died out.
If we recall correctly the last team
matches played at Columbia, in 1922,
drew exactly three club entries and all
were from Washington. SO team
matches, in so far as golfers from
Washington clubs are concerned, are
not intensely popular affairs.
VYTHEN you make small wager with
w your opponent on short hole,
be sure he does not have ambi-
tions to make hole in one. j. c..
Robertson found this out the other day
at Washington, where he was playing
with j. Sidney Gates.
Coming to the eleventh hole, Robert
son made a small wager with Gates on
this short 135-yard affair. Looking out
at the green, situated just over the
water hazard, Gates pulled an old ball
from his bag, for the water was muddy
from recent rains, and with the mem
ory of other shots in his head, he was
sure If he went into the water he
would not find his ball. He finally ex-
tricated an old ball of ancient lineage.
so battled and SCARED by the golf
wars that it was cut completely
through the cover
Teeing it up, he took his stance,
when Robertson interrupted him in
this wise: "You are not going to play
that old ball, are you, Sid?'
Sure" said Gates. II don't want
to lose a new one"
''Weli, I'll give you better one than
that" Robertson said.
"Never mind" Gates replied. "Here
go to make 1t in one with this old
pill. Watch this"
And he neatly lofted the ball to
the green, where 1t rolled-cut cover
and all-into the hole for an ace.
Robertson put his tee shot only three
feet from the pin, but he was so over
come with Gates feat that he missed
the putt for the birdie 2.
DEGIsTERING score of which
N many male players would be
proud, Winifred Faunce, unat-
tached golfer who used to play under
the colors of the Manor Club, spread
eagled the field to win the first COM
petition for the Washington Herald
trophy yesterday at the Chevy Chase
Club Miss Faunee not only led the
field by six strokes In the gross COM