Evening star., 1932-06-30

~OLUMBIA G o U N T r Y
IA CLUBS strong women's
~ golf team apparently is
the winner of the inter
lclub team match series between
lClubS of the Women's District Golf
Association. With only two more
matches on the schedule Colum-
bia leads Chevy Chase by a single
match, and the twin matches
scheduled for Columbia on July
and July 18 both are against
teams which have been shown in
previous matches to be weaker
than the team from the big club
out on Connecticut avenue.
Columbia VIII meet Indian Spring
on July 6 in matches at the Congress
sional Country Club which probably
will decide the team series. If Colum-
bia wins the match against Indian
Spring the Columbia team will be as
good as lin" for on past performances
Kenwood has not shown enough
strength to whip Columbia, whom 1t
meets in the final match of the sehed-
course, the Indian Spring team, with a
strong lineup headed by Mrs. Betty
P. Meekley, former District woman's
golf champion, can throw a monkey
wrench into the machinery by down.
ing Columbia next Wednesday, but
such a win would be strictly an upset
if the records of the two teams in
matches so far this year are considered.
The Columbia team has on it a num-
Der Of strong players. In the matches
last Monday the Columbia team in
cluded Mrs. J. Marvin Haynes, present
Middle Atlantic title holder and for-
mer District champion; Mrs. Everett
Eynon, runner-up in the 1882 woman's
District championship; Mrs. Roland r.
Mackenzie, Mrs. James w. Beller, Mrs.
H r. Quinter and Mrs. j. A. Marr.
ONLY one match behind Columbia
~ in the spot which will enable it
to tie Columbia if Columbia loses
one Of its next two contests is the team
of the Chevy Chase Club. Columbia
downed Chevy Chase by small mar
gin a fortnight ago in a match that,
barring a future upset, settled the team
championship for this year.
AS the team contests now stand Co
lurnbia leads with seven victories and
no losses. Chevy Chase is second with
six wins and one loss and Congress
siOnal. winners of the title last year,
is third with five wins, one loss and
two ties. So if Columbia can exc out
a victory over Indian Spring on July
there is little doubt the Columbia
team is "in." The KenWood team is
hardly strong enough to whip Columbia
in the final match of the year on
July 10. In addition, the Columbia
sr 3y, sVa
petition for second teams. 1t looks like
a Columbia season among the woman
stars Of the bunkered realm around
Washington.
r Unless Henry D, Nicholson, the
~ present club title holder, returns
to the club before the champion
ship tourney starts next October, the
Washington Golf and Country Club is
due to have new champion this year.
Nicholson, worthy and popular
champion one of the best Of the young |
golfers developed around Washington
in recent years, has submitted his |
resignation. He may return to the club |
TO play in the championship in the Fall, !
however. He has twice won the Wash |
lngton club championship, defeating |
Thorpe Drain in the final round last
year. The previous year he lost to
Frank K RoeSch In the final, and in
1929 he beat RoeSch on the thirty |
seventh hole Of the final round. Nichol-
son was runner-up to Miller B. Stevin-
son in the club invitation tourney of
1929 and for the last two or three years
has been the outstanding golfer of the
club.
NTONDER how many Washington
Wv folks remember Gene Sarazen's
first visit to Washington, and how
little the present world champion I'M
pressed the golf fans in those days,
when the professional game was DOM
mated by Jock Hutchison, Jim Barnes
and Walter Hagen?
1t was back in 1921. when Columbia
staged the national open championship,
and when, for the first time in the his
tory Of the game, a President of the
United States presented the trophies on
the expansive lawns of the Columbia
Country Club. Gene then was hardly
out of the caddie ranks, a little-known
assistant pro from Westchester County,
N. Y, but lad whom the pros claimed
had bright future in front of him.
How true those words have become At
any rate, Bobby Jones then was the
uncroWned king of the amateurs. the
boy without q championship. but the
boy whom every one conceded even in
those days would be the bright and
shining light Of the game
Bobby and Sarazen played couple