Evening star., 1934-05-31

THERE isn't much to be said or
done in a golfing way until
the coming week end following
Il the orgy Of divot digging in
dulged in yesterday by thou
sands of folks who thronged the pri-
vate clubs and overfowed the public
links on one Of the finest golflng days
Of the year.
Every private club was crowded and
the public courses did land Office
business. Up at Rock Greek more than
/, 100 persons started, while that num-
Der was exceeded at East Potomac
Park. Every kind of golf tournament,
from tombstone affairs down to exhi-
bition matches, was on tap at the
local clubs, where all the courses were
crowded from dawn to dark.
At Chevy Chase Comdr. H. C. Wick
finished all even with par to annex
the Victor Kaufman Memorial Day
Trophy, a match play against par
competition. w. p. Purnell and Gen.
F. w. Coleman finished down to
par in a tie for second.
Billy Shannon and Charlton Graves
put together a best ball of 70 with a
handicap of 7 to score net 63 and
win the handicap best ball tourney at
Columbia. In second place were E. c.
Gott, jr., and G. E. Altemus, with
78-14-64, and B. M. Manly and
Charles Shelton and DR.. Chester
Baker and Edgar Markham tied for
third with net scores of IS.
YER at Argyle Martin F. McCar-
~ thy, Claude Rippy and Maury
Nee teamed together to whip
the best ball of Hickman Greene, Bill
Di Este and j. r. DawkinS by and
3 in a unique six-ball match. Rippy
had the best card with 70, leading his
side to better ball of 66. The flag
tourney went to A. Bent, who finished
near the cup on the nineteenth hole.
Bob Stearns was second.
The tombstone tourney at Washing
ton went to Harold Fisher, who played
his last stroke into the cup on the
twentieth hole. DR.. W. r. McLister
finished second, while James L. Tracey
and John Thacker finished in tie
for third. A women's putting tourney
found Mrs. r. N. Sutton winning the
qualifying round with 33. Mrs. Doug
las Tschiffely won the tourney, beat
ing Miss K. Thatcher in the final
The consolation went to Mrs. J. E.
McCabe.
With the qualifying round to end
tomorrow, Louis Fuchs is in the lead
in the Tribal Bowl tourney at Indian
Spring. He shot a score Of 78 yes
terday. Mrs. C. B. Hill won the
women's flag tourney, with Mrs. Betty
P. Meckley second. Mrs. Meckley shot
an IS. The mems flag tourney went
to j. c. Russell, who finished close
to the cup at the eighteenth. Other
winners were Frank G. Butler and
George GiSt. Arthur Urban holed
niblick shot for an eagle on the
525-yard sixteenth hole.
4 T BEAVER Dam two players tied
n for the Presidents cup. They
are John 7. Money, with 81
1868, and w. A. Kirsch, with 90
2I-68. The tie will be played 'off
later. The driving contest at Argyle
went to Frank Baggett, who poled out
a 257 yarder. Max Taylor was sec
ond, while G. c. Strong won the ap-
preaching contest, hitting ball l
foot from the pin from $50 yards
away. r. G. Mitchell was second. N.
J. Wilson and G. w. Griffin won the
putting contest.
The women's driving contest went
to Mrs. w. Tucker, with Mrs. Earl
Secrest In second place. Winners
in the approaching contest were Mrs.
John T. Money and Mrs. R. z.
Kelly, while approaching tourney
winners were Mrs. w. c. Hackman
and Mrs. r. E. Kelly.
The mems handicap tourney found
the following winners:
First flight-E. L. Degener, S2-11-71;
s1-s-73; Jess Baggett. 7s-4--73 Sec
L. Jones, s7-15-72; Oscar T. Wright
Ss-15-73. Third flight-W. A. Kirsch
S9-21--6s; G. W. Griffin 82-20-72;
Sam Rubenstein. 95-20-75; r. F. DON
aldson. 9s-23-75; Fourth flisht-S, r.
2b-74; H. G. Gibson. l02-27-f5: J. r.
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