Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-14
HOYAS CONTENDERS
FOR COLLEGE TITLE
Beqer One of Outstanding
PIayerS-Man0r Cleans
Out Its Woods.
BY WALTER R. McCALLUM.

BY WALTER n. McCALLUM.
GEORGETOWN UNIvER-
n SITY'S golf team, which
7 looms as strong one this
- year, and will be che of the
favorites to annex the intercol-
legiate team title, plans to ar
range number of matches with
local clubs this Spring.
Fred d. Paxton, chairman of the
Washington Golf and Country Club
Golf Committee, already has been APP
preached on behalf of the golf team
of the Hilltop institution to arrange
q golf team match with a picked team
of members of the Virginia CLUB, and
Paxton has informed university oh-
Gals that such a match can be staged
shortly after the Spring invitation
tourney of the Washington club has
been completed on May /. Similar
overtures are to be made to several
other washington clubs, and mean
while the university golf team is seek
ing the use of one of the courses
around Washington for practice.
F. j. C"Chick") Deger Of the Shack
amazon Club of New Jersey, will be
one Of the outstanding players on the
played in several invitation Journeys
about Washington two years ago, and
made a good record. He was runner
up to Page Hufty in the Indian Spring
invitation event two years back and a
sen1i-flnalist in another event. Maurice
J.. Mccarthy, mainstay of the George
town team. has graduated from the
Hilltop, but several other good golfers,
among them Jack Slattery, Will be out
for the team The Hilltop team will
start next month a series of matches
with teams from other colleges.
THE Schedule Committee of the
4 Beaver Dam Country Club is to
meet next Monday at the call OF
Chairman Maier, to draw UP sched-
ule of events for the season. The COM
n1ittee is to report not later than March
%.
Golfers who play the first nine at the
Manor Club this year will find their
hooks and slices will not be so severely
penalized as they have been in the past.
Under the direction of Greens Commit
tee Chairman Il. L. Thompson, much
work has been done by way of cleaning
out the woods bordering on the fair
WAYS. and no longer does shot into
the woods necessarily mean loss OF a
stroke. Most of the work has been done
at the fifth and ninth holes, both OF
which are dog-leg affairs. In both cases
more room has been provided for the
tee shot and the hole has been opened
IN for the second shot. That woods
nine is looked upon by many golfers as
a terror. Although not so long, 1t has
caused scores to mount well up because in
the past shot played into the woods
generally meant playing out into the
fairway and losing stroke. With the
widening of the fairwayS play still will
be restricted enough to make straight
tee shots necessary, but II the player Is
lucky he may stu have q shot through
the thinned-out trees.
THE Board OF Governors of the Manor
i Club has ratified the dates for the
1891 invitation tournament of the
club. which will be held June l6. II, IL
and 10, and also has ratified the date
for the District Junior championship, to
be played at Manor on September 2.
That record Of "A one-putt green's in
50 holes, made by John Merritt at Co
Iumbia a few days ago. Is not local
record. after all Arthur =. Thorn of
the Woodmont Country Tub tells us
that few years ago IA, Shorey, pro
at East Potomac Park, had 20 one-putt
green's in 50 holes over the Columbia
Country Club course. Shorey was play
ing In the qualifying round of the Pro-
fessional Golfers Association champion
ship.