Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
PLANNING TO PLAY
SEVERAL COURSES
Schoolgirl Star Is to Be
Guest of Mrs. Haynes
While Here.

with Mrs. j. Marvin Haynes of the
Columbia Country Club, one of the
leaders Of women's golf in. this section
Of the country. Miss Hicks, who for
the past week has been at Hot Springs,
Va, where she won the Old Dominion
woman's title. was to arrive today, but
she missed her train.
During her stay in the Capital, which
Mrs. Haynes hopes will continue through
Saturday, Miss Hicks will play most Of
the leading golf courses about Washing
ton. She was scheduled to play today
with Clyde B. Asher, president Of the
Columbia Country CLUB, at Columbia,
against Mrs. Haynes and John b:
Ryerson, one of the ranking golfers OF
the Nation, but this match has been
postponed until later. She also was
To have visited the Beaver Dam Country
Club, where a tournament was played
today by members of the Womens Dis
trict Golf Association.
Mrs. Haynes said Miss Hicks had ex-
pressed q desire to play such courses
as Columbia, Congressional and CHEVY
Chase, ali of which, she said, have a
national reputation. She also may play
Indian Spring, but, Of course, she Will
not be able to play Burning Tree, nor
washington, where an invitation tour
nament started today.
Miss Hicks, WHO halls from Hewlett,
Long Island, and still is In her teens,
generally is rated second only to Glenna
Cellett in the national ranking Of feni-
nine golf stars. Strong and sturdy. she
knocks q golf ball as far as many Of
the better male players and Is able to
play almost any good course in better
than 80 strokes. Her scoring on the
courses which she plays while here viii
be interesting to watch Last week she
shot q 10 to win the qualifying round
In the Old Dominion championship at
Hot Springs and then went on to win
the championship. In the qualifying
round she played what Mrs. Haynes de-
scribes as the greatest golf shot she
has ever seen. Standing on a hillside
above her ball she hitga spoon shot
10 feet from the pin &C the tenth hole,
and she ho.ed the putt for birdie g..
WHAT golf course is that layout at
w Burning Tree. whittier. PLAYED
from the front or back tees. We
daresay that nutwithstandin the high
winds which swept all the local courses
yesterday there was not one which de-
mandsd wood for the second shot on
more than three or four holes. Yet
John B. RyerBon Of Co0perstown, N. Y,
who is spending Q few days here. used
his wooden club seven times for his
Burning Tree. which are supposed to
measure below 500 yards and really
play at least that distance in length.
Ryerson can hitsa golf ball far and
straight and yet he used wood for his
second shot on tbs nrst, seconds fourth,
ninth, tenth, sixteenth and eighteenth
holes. fyow that first hole at Burning
Tree, messur2s Go yards, according to
the markers end 1f1ae wind was not
dead Against hiisz Ryerscn hit two
scresnakfs With 6kw ball and was
able 4g-TsaciHs Hrrfnnly pin high on
the putting gTeeIas.. =. :.
lack Of roll but IL seems to me that
man who hits the hall as well as Ryer-
SON hit those two shots can get more
than 40 yards with Q brace of well
hit shots. His finest shot came at the
ninth hole. where he hit two wooden
club wallops TO o spot just past the
hole and 10 feet away, from which he
holed the putt for an eagle 3, to get out
In IS. But he had trouble playing the
fifteenth hole, where his second shot
was bunkered and was back in II for
o as.
Of the entrants in the tourney
w which started t1day at Washing
ton played the Washington course
In practice yesterday, but owing to the
fact that the men were practicing,
there we're few scores kept. The play
ers were trying shots and were not
particularly interested IN scoring. j.
Munro Hunter, the Indian Spring pro,
took his son, j. MonrO, r., over to
Washington and drove the first green
SOB yards avay-with q spoon. A
high wind which swept the course
made scoring dificult. The course has
been brought into very fine condition
for the tourney, although the greens
are moderately slow to putt on. Ser
ator Pat Harrison Of Mississippi was
among the late entrants in the tourney
added starters. Those late entrants
who have been paired to play tomor-
row are:
Phelps 8. Ferris, Kenwood. and F.
L. souder. Bannockburn, s:45 am;
Everett Eyncn and H. P. Cochran,
Columbia, 1880; o. NJ. Wiley, Lulu
Club, and Z. ]. Gray. Kenwood, IL 20;
z. J. Getehall, Rhode Island, and @.
C. Carpenter, Rhode Island, e:2e,
Joseph Kircfmer, Bannockburn, and Y.
r. Sherrod. Columbia, 9:35; Harry Kid
well, Indian Spring, and Senator Pat
Harrison, Burning Tree, 1870.
out at the Washington Golf and
~ Country Club, where most Of the
golf activity about the city will
center this week. the club Golf Gem
mittee has been busy with other things
besides the club invitation tournament
which started today.
o. L. Veerhoff, chairman of the Com
nnittee on Intraclub Affairs, today an
nounced o series Of purely club events
to start May 8 with q kicker's handi-
cap. In this event players may choose
their own handicaps against q blind
score between 10 and 30. On May 1e
there viii be staged an 1e-hole four
man team contest. in which the best
ball Of each team viii be played, with
one-fourth the team handicap to be
allowed. On May 23 there viii be one
Of Veefhoff's favorite contests, which
proved 20 popular last year among the
members Of the Virginia club, COM
petition In which nine holes Will be
chosen before play starts, unknown to
the competitors, In which the best net
score will win. Hslf the club handicap
will count in this tourney.
On May 80 the club will stage a min
iature tournament. with the low haf,di-
cap players scheduled to start 1t Q
O'Clock, to be followed by the higher
handicap players in the classes to which
their handicaps entitle them to play.
This event drew more than 80 players
last year, and the matches all are at
nine holes.
In addition to the mems events, the
woman golfers Of the club will stage O
blind DOGGY event on May 10.
GOLFERS of the Washington Kiwanis
~ Club have mapped out an extern
siye program for their tourn2 ments
this year. A committee. headed by Al
bert w. Howard. has drawn up the fob
lowing schedule of events: Columbia