Evening star., 1934-11-29
S|X-TEAM BATTLE
STARTS IN APRIL
Martin West, Red Banagan
Work Out Details for
Unique Competition.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

BY WALLER II. McCALLUM.
TT COULD only come about in a
big club like Columbia-the new
series of intra-club team matches
which Golf Chairman Martin R
West and Red" Banagan, his genial
and hard-working aide-are planning
for next year.
Not every club has enough golfers
or enough players interested in team
competitions to form a seven or eight
team league for play throughout the
season. But Columbia has enough
players, and so West and Banagan
today are working out the details of
a schedule that promises to keep Co
lumbia golfers on their toes through
out most of the next year. what with
tournaments inside the club and those
outside the organization
Columbia has six handicap classes,
ranging from scratch up to "a, with
the players in those classes competing
in their own divisions in the club
championship tourney, wherein only
men with handicaps up to and in
Guiding 8 strokes may play for the
title. 1t is proposed that a team
of - men be organized within each
of these handicap divisions, one from
the better women golfers of the club
and another from the junior players,
the teams to meet at least once each
month on a handicap basis. 1t is
proposed that the matches be played
on Sunday afternoons.
Women May Give Handicaps.
n UT the queer part of it all is this ::
d With the women having their
handicapS rated against a par
of II, and the men rated against a
par of 70, it is entirely possible that
when the WOmen'S team clashes with
a mems team from the fifth or sixth
division the feminine golfers will be
in the unique position of giving hand
leaps to their male opponents. You
don't often find that being done, but
1t may come about when these
matches are organized next year
I'VE think these matches will serve
the double purpose of getting our
members acquainted with each other
and with their golf and of providing
an interesting series of competitions, -
West said today.
We plan to start EN- off with our
opening day next April. which Will
probably fall on Sunday in order
to give every one chance to play
So far the plans are tentative, but
there isn't any doubt they will be
worked out, together With the details
of election of team captains, choosing
Of eligible players and the form of
play and application of handiCaps, etc.
If the tournament runs through most
of next Summer, and there isn't much
doubt it will, your Columbia members
are going to be busy folks, what with
their own regular foursome play and
competition in these intra- club affairs.
Women Will Elect Officers.
~ ELEGATES from the member
clubs of the Women's District
of Columbia Golf Association
will gather at Columbia on December
to go through the form of balloting
on the candidates for officers of the
association next year. Nomination
is tantamount to election and the
following women have been nominated
for the association Offices for 1885 {:
For president, Mrs c. K. Wing. Army
Navy; first vice president. Miss Susan
Hacker. Chevy Chase Club; second vice
president, Mrs N. j. Waldron, Beaver
Dam; treasurer, Mrs Donald Scott,
Congressional; secretary, Mrs. D. M.
Mcpherson, Manor Committees to
serve next year will be chosen after
the annual meeting, at which Miss
Elizabeth G. Harris, who has served
as president for the past two years,
will turn over that Office to Mrs Wing
If you are struck by a golf ball hit
from a public course you cannot COL
lect damages from the municipality,
according to ruling by Baltimore
judge. Miss Adelaide j. Ticer, walk
ing along a street hard by one of
the municipal courses in Baltimore
was struck In the eye and injured
by golf ball driven from the course.
She filed suit for $4,000 against the
municipality. Chief Judge Samuel K.
Dennis sustained the city's demurrer
to the suit and court officials inter-
preted the decision to mean that the
city Is not liable for damages in such
cases. Wonder what the application
would be in Washington, where most
of the public courses are operated by
a privately owned company?