Evening star., 1933-04-06
THREE-DAY EVENT
STARTS APRIL IS
To Decide Spring Title for
Those Who Regard Course
as Their "Home."
~ OCK CREEK PARK is to
~ stage the first big mems
/ tournament of the 1888 golf

H stage the flrSt big men
l tournament of the 1888 gol
season.
Manager B. Harry Graham o
the popular public layout up IL
the hills of the uptown park toda,
announced that the first "Rocl
Creek open" tourney will start OF
April 18 and will run for thre,
days.
It will be in the nature Of q Sprint
championship for those who do thei
topping and slicing over the hilly cours,
near Sixteenth street. Already NOR,
than Is of the leading public link.
players of the city have entered the
event, which will start on April 18 with
an 18-hole medal play round, to be fol
lowed by four match play rounds or
April 10 and 20.
Among those who have entered the
tourney are Volney G. Burnett, winner
of the Uptown" championship last
year; John Connolly, the Roosevelt High
School lad who tied for the District
municipal championship in 1881; Bobby
Bowen, and several others whose names
bulk large among the low scorers at
Rock Creek Park Bradley H. Bur-
rows, former municipal champion, Is
expected to start his 1888 comeback In
the coming tourney and, George Mall
10y, the local public links tleholder,
also may be an entrant.
ENTRIES for the tourney will close
IL with Graham on April IA. BY that
time he expects to have SomeW mere
between 80 and 100 names entered for
the affair The short fifth hole-a
e5-yard affair played from the top Of a
steep hill across creek to big green
will be opened for play next Sunday
after being closed all Winter. The
fifth at Rock Greek Is the hole where
more aces have been made than on
any other one-shot hole around Wash
1ngton.
In single year nearly 80 tee shots
were holed from that hilltop tee, back
in 1880 For months the long eighth
has been split into two holes, and the
old fifth has been out Of play. With
the re-opening Of the nth green. the
eighth again will become \ three-shot-
ter.
Members of the washington Dental
Coli Association are looking forward
to their first big golf meeting Of the
year, to be held April IS at the Con-
gressional Country Club. A golf tourna-
ment, with prizes In several classes,
win be followed by an evening OF en-
tertainment, to be marked by boxing
contests arranged by DR.. o. U. Singer.
DR.. T. D. Webb is In charge Of the
golf program.
Like the robin, the first golfing eagle
Is one of the early harbingers Of q golf
season about to burst upon waiting
world. Dave Thomson. Washington
Golf and Country Club pro, scored the
first eagle of the Spring season at
washington yesterday, sinking 6-foot
putt for on the par fifteenth
hole. He put together two fine shots
to reach the green at this 465-yard hole.
A RMY-NAvY COUNTRY CLUBS Sec
u ond womens golf team, champions
in their class last season, opened
the 1888 matches in auspiciouS fashion
yesterday with q clean sweep over the
Beaver Dam team in contests played at
the Woodmont Country Club. Army
Nyyy scored Is points while allowing
Esaver Dam none. Other results were:
N shington, 1872; Woodmont, IA;
Chevy Chase, 13; Manor, 2; Kenwood,
1l5; Columbia, 3la.
A tournament schedule starting May
z and ending September "a, including
all sorts of golf events, was announced
today by the Manor Club. The schedule
follows:
May 7-18 holes medal play for men.
May 7-l8 holes medal play for
women.
May 2l-Mixed Scotch foursome.
May 28-First match, two-man team.
May 30-Flag tourney for men and
women. Driving contest for men and
putting contest for women.
June Second two-man team match.
Third match, June IL; fourth match,
june l8, and fifth match, June 25.
July Alag tourney for women.
Driving contest fer men, putting con-
test for women and handicap tourney
for men, most number OF pars.
July 9-Husband and wife tourney,
18hole medal play handicap.
July 30-Match play against par.
August l3-Mixed Scotch fourSome.
September and 4, Presidents cup.
3e holes handicap. Also women's nag
September 10-Qualifying round, club
Championship. Match play rounds 70
follow on September l6, September II,
September % and September "A.
Maureen orcutt, New York golf star,
will show her game at Indian Spring
next week when she comes to Wasmng-
ton for a few days as the guest OF Mrs'
J. Marvin Haynes. Tom M 6eiSne,
chairman of the Indian Spring GoiI
Committee, received a wire last nignt
in answer to one from him, conflrmng
the fact that Miss Orcutt VIII play az
Indian Spring, probably with besne
and George Diffenbaugh, the CLUB pro.
The match will be played Iuesoay Oh
Wednesday. Miss Orcutt also Is scnea1
,led to play at Columbia and kenWooo
JOSEPH A. LYNCH, the Newton
Mass. lad who played freshman
golf last year, is far out IN lron'
of the other candidates for the George
Town golf team of 1888 as the quail1y-
ing rounds for the team draw near
thu close at Indian Spring To-Day
Iys,ch did 70 In the initial test yes
terday. A 36-hole round tomorro"
will end the trials. Other scores Wele
r. S. Mcfarland, II; J. O'Brien, S3;
Curly" Wockner, 84 w. M. ByInes
"a; Joe De Stetano, "a; M S1cliian d,ad,
"a; Dick Kreuzbsrg, "a; Waiter
lyman, "a.
z. A. Jones is the first golfer te
score a hole in one en- Beaver Dam
new seventeenth hole. Jones scoree
the ace on this 185-yard hole yester'
day by the simple expedient Of hitting
spoon shot dead on the pin. Tn
ball hoped into the hcle for the ace
A schedule of golf matches for thu
Prem School League will be drafted a.
a meeting of prep school golfers at th'
willard Hotel tonight, called by Fran
Emmett of Georgetown Prep. Golfer
from Georgetown Prep. st. Johns
Friends, Gonzaga and Dewitt Prep ar
expected 10 attend.
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