Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-05-31
COURSES THRONGED
FOR HOLIDAY PLAY
Special Contests and Good
Weather Draw Golfers to
Clubs About Capital.

TIME first holiday of the golfsnl
season packed 'em in on the gol
courses about the Capital yester.
day. At every club scores, anc
in some cases hundreds of golfers, ia
vored by warm weather, turned out to
play in the special events arranged by
the clubs for the Memorial day holiday.
Columbia set something in the nature
Of q new high mark when Darcy Bana-
gan counted $50 golfers, who left the
first tee In friendly foursomes and In the
two-Enan event which the club staged
during the day.
Out at the washington Golf and
Country Club in Virginia a record turn
out Of golfers appeared for the minia-
ture tournament staged by the club,
while another record throng turned out
at Congressional, where the club golfers
played In the initial competition for the
Walter johnson trophy.
Results Of Journeys.
Here are the results Of the Journeys
played yesterday on the golf courses
about the National Capital:
Chevy Chase Cluh-18-hole match
play against par event for the Victor
Kaufman Memorial day trophy: T. C..
Turner, playing with handicap Of 10
strokes, finished up on par, to win
the trophy, registering a gross card Of
10. Turner said his 10 marked the first
time In Is years he had broken 80.
tied for second with cards 2 up on par.
Whiteley played with q handicap OF IL
strokes. while Morrow played from q
handicap of Is strokes. NJ K. Metcalf
was fourth with q card / up on par,
aided by a handicap Of IL strokes.
j. B. Heron won the first flight In the
miniature tournament held at the
Washington Golf and Country Club, de-
feating Fritz Paxton, 2 and !, In the
flnal. Cap. Warren J. Clear won the
consolation. Results in the other flights
were: Second flight-William Middle
ton defeated Ralph A. Drain. up.
Consolation won by E., M. Lewis
Third fiight-Maj z. w. Cushing de-
ton won by Ward B. Mccarthy.
Fourth fiight-H. B. Wiley defeated
e. 2. Mcintyre, / up. Consolation won
by Lowell .Mellett.
Fifth flight. L. .Keddy defeated DR..
s: T. holland. Consolation won by j. p.
Wood.
Sixth flight. McKenney Berry de-
feated r. A. Lacey. l UP. Consolidat ton
won by l.. S. Vesey
Seventh fiight-W. p. Henderson de-
feated w. A. Elliott, l up In 10 holes.
Consolation won by Fletcher Henderson.
Eighth fiight-A. H. Walter defeated
J. G. Folger, and /. Consolation won
by L. H. MERCER.
Triple Tie for Cup.
The competition over the l8-hole
route for the Presidents Cup at the
Beaver Dam Country Club resulted in
q triple tie at 10. The three players
will play of the tie next Sunday. The
scores follow: c. H. Durer, 82-l2-70;
Harry DALEY, 82-l2-70; Robert
Chamberlin, 93-23-70; r. X. Kam-
merer. 97-26-7l; L. r. Nelson. 100
2s-72; D. N. Pratt. se-27-72; B. Z.
Ensconx. ss-l6-72; @. F. Powers,
s1-1e--72; j. B. Robertson, 96-24-72;
w. B. Hammer, 100-28-72.
The driving contest was won by
Martin r. Mccarthy. who knocked the
ball 230 yards. Volney @. Burnett was
second with a poke of 225 yards, while
G. H. Durer had shot of 220 yards.
In the approaching contest from las
feet away from the green John r.
Miller knocked the ball to within 10
feet Of the hole. The ball of J. r.
Dawkins finished liz feet from the
hols, while that of Lawrence Wintern
was only IL feet away. Jesse r. Bag
gett won first prize in the putting con-
test, with j. r. Dawkins second
A tie resulted In the two-man best
ball competition at Columbia, two pairs
finishing with net scores of 46. Strange
ly enough, both registered the same
gross score. and Of course, both had the
same handicap. The pairs who tied
were Nathan Poole paired with e. L.
Thompson and william E. Shannon
paired with Edgar Orme, jr. Both pairs
had 74-28-46. Third place went to
the team of e. c. Colt, 1r., and @. z.
Altemus, who had card Of 77-30-47.
The match play against par tourney
at Woodmont resulted as follows: Glass
A-Robert Baum, 80-l5-65, and
Gustav Ring, S6-20-66, both up
on par. L. T. Harris, 94-24-70, and
Phillip King, 85-l7-6e, both up.
Class B-Simon Nye, se-38-ol,
finished UP on par Louis Hopien-
maier with 104-40-64, finished up.