Evening star., 1946-01-20
Layout Of 6,241 Yard!
Mapped for Argyle;
Manor Picks Board
BY WALTER McCALLUM.


A clever piece of course designing
making full use of creeks running
through the sproperty will be un-
veiled before members of the Argyle
Country Club Tuesday night at the
Jessup-Blair house in Silver Spring
where officers of the Argyle Land
Co.. Inc, holding company, will
explain the development of the new
club.
Percy w. LIE Due, long a prom
inent Argyle member. has designed
the new golf course. which will run
6,24l yards in length, with a par
of II. 1t is to be constructed on
property now being purchased by
the Argyle Land Co. at Layhill, Md,
not far from Manor Country Club.
The old Argyle Country Club prop
erty, near Silver Spring, Md, was
sold last fall and will be used for
a housing development.
LIE Due cleverly has used a dou-
-forked creek running through
the property on. 10 holes of the
proposed new course. Holes rang
ing from the 155-yard 18th to the
510-yard third will demand accurate
placing of shots to avoid a golf ball
dunking in the creek. Along with
the layout of the new Argyle course
the members will view an archi-
tect's sketch of the proposed club
house, much more commodious
affair than the old clubhouse.
Work on the new golf course will
start at once and Raymond E.
Gable, secretary of the club, says
the layout will be ready for use
next summer, which may or may
not be optimistic.
Manor Is Getting Along.
Argyle's new property is reached
via Georgia avenue to Glenmont,
Md, then a right turn and a run
of about 2 miles on the Glenmont-
Ashton road. The golf course prop
erty is high and rolling, with many
of the features that make Manor
an attractive playing course. The
mines are well-balanced, with a first
nine of 3,201 yards, par 36, and a
SCSOllu 1l1ilC VI O,O1U y dA OS Npdl oOJ.
AS golf club presidents go, Will
liam w. Jones has been in Office a
long time. Bill" as the boys at
Manor call him, has headed Manor
for five years and has worked like
a Trojan to keep the club going
during the war years, when Manor,
because of its distance from town,
was one of the clubs hard hit by
gasoline rationing.
But all is we'll now, says Prexy
Jones, and Manor is set for a good
year. The old team of Harry Pitt
and Ralph Gibson head the Golf
and Greens Committees, with John
r. Meyer heading the House Com
mittee Other board members in
clude Ralph D. Pittman, vice presi-
dent; w. l.. Tucker, secretary; j. E.
Sullivan, treasurer, and John R.
Daily, E. L. Norris, w. M. Candy,
w. A. Carr, c. T. Johncox and F. P.
Wilcox.
Help Due Public Links Meet.
Delegates to the February annual
meeting of the District Golf Asso-
citation will have before them a
proposal for the DCGA to take over
and sponsor the operation of the
District public links championship.
It's high time the local pappies of
golf recognized public links golf.
There's a big segment of golfers
playing the public courses, and if
the District association carries out
the directions in its constitution,
which are to promote and foster
golf in and around the District of
Columbia, it must take cognizance
of this heretofore unrecognized
group.
The public links championship
long has been a stepchild without
organized sponsorship. 1t has been
run by the paid employees Of the
Leoff1er organization and can be
again, but at least it should have
the support of the District Golf
Assncia tim