Evening star., 1945-09-03
Gen. Lear, Bonogon Effect New
Handicap System at Columbia
By WALTER McCALLUM.

For years the handicap system OF
the Columbia Country Club has been
that affable 1rishman with the
friendly grin, Red Banagan, nabob
of the first tee and Handicapped
extraordinary. Inquiries as to CO.
lumbia's handicap system brought
the answer, Red is our Handicapped.
He's the only system we have and
he's always right"
That's all changed now. Columbia
members today were playing in their
first links tournament under a new
handicap system evolved by the hard
work of the indefatigable Banagan
and 1t. Gen. Ben Lear. U. S. A.,
retired. new club handicap chair
man. Today's tourney is tWo-ball
affair with half the combined handi-
caps to apply.
Labor Day Journeys continued at
many other clubs today with some
holding separate events and one or
two continuing the play which start
ed yesterday. Telford Gibraski, East
Potomac manager, with 40-odd en-
for the Distrist public links cham
pionship Wednesday. The tourney
win open next Monday morning with
80 to qualify for match play.
Not often has such low scoring
match been staged as that one yes
terday at East Potomac, where
Claude Rippy and Earle Marcy,
former and present public links
champs, bagged a birdie on the Goth
hole to lick the pro pair of Cliff
Spencer of East Potomac and Harry
Griesmer of Burning Tree. All even
at the end of the regulation dis
tance, they went two extra holes to
decision, with both pairs scoring
better ball of 81 over the par So,
newly opened F course.
Rippy, Mid-Atlantic champ from
the Washington Golf and Country
Club, and Griesmer, former Indian
Spring amateur. both scored 66s,
with Marcy. present publinx title
holder, bagging a ST and Spencer,
former Mid-Atlantic PGA champ.
scoring SO. The gallery of little
more than 200, according to
Gibraski's estimate, contributed $29
to the PGA rehabilitation fund.
Indian Spring is holding a mixed
foursome tourney today, but DR.. L..
M. Cuvillier, club president, is being
congratulated on his win of the
senior championship, which he &C
complished yesterday with score
Of 85-15-70. R. F. Martin was next
with 97-26-71. Mrs. Karl Giles
and Mrs. Ted Burrows will play off
next Sunday for the Victory Cup for
which they tied yesterday, Mrs. Giles
scoring 84-10-74 and Mrs. Burrows
tabbing 103-29-74. Tied for third
were Mrs. C. H. Hartman, 91-16-75,
and Mrs. E. B. Clark, 106-31-75.
At the Washington Golf and
Country Club the players continued
today their medal rounds for the
Harrell Cup and the club two-man
team championship for the title
held by Claude Rippy and H. H.
Carper. Leading so far in the medal
round are James G. C. Corcoran and
1t. F. S. Pomeroy, with 6S. Leroy
Early, with 5-and-3 victory over
Col, E. R. King, and 1t. Col. J. M
Himyard, with a 19-hole win over
q. c. Calvert, won their way to the
flnal OF the Birney Cup tourney.
Several of the st-fiight matches
IN the Kenwood Club champion
ship were postponed because of alb
sence from the city of some tor
competitors, but five matches were
played, with the following results
A. H. Youngquist defeated O.. M
Reed, 4 and 2; George F. Norsar
defeated w. M. Woolley, s and 5
N. F. Hollander defeated Otto Eble
l5 and 4; Bill BroVnrigg defeates