Baltimore Country Club

Seeking a compromise in Roland Park dispute At every bargaining table, each party must start by understanding what's non-negotiable for its opposition. So in the ongoing deadlock between Baltimore Country Club, Roland Park, the Keswick Multi-Care Center and now the city, it's useful to review the non-negotiables ("Roland Park proposal imperils zoning code," letters, Jan. 5). The Baltimore Country Club needs cash - at least fair market value for the 17 acres of land it has on the auction block to pay for capital improvements for its historic clubhouse.

Defending champion Bobby Wadkins is all set for this fall's Senior Players Championship at Baltimore Country Club, but he won't have any special knowledge of the historic course. The fifth major of the Champions Tour has been transplanted from Dearborn, Mich., where Wadkins came back from four strokes down in the final round to win his first major tournament last July. He said yesterday that he's looking forward to the opportunity to hang on to the title even if the surroundings won't be the same.

Responding to concerns over the pending Friends School purchase of 18 acres from Baltimore Country Club, Roland Park Civic League will huddle this week to discuss how best to influence what happens to the land."

Traffic and open green space surfaced as major issues for Roland Park residents who attended a slide show and meeting Thursday night on the Friends School acquisition of 18 acres of the Baltimore Country Club.School head Jon M. Harris reassured about 300 people packed into the St. David's Episcopal Church's basement that the school intends to use the land only for athletic fields: eight clay tennis courts, a baseball diamond and two soccer or lacrosse fields.Addressing side street traffic questions, Harris promised that vans transporting the students from their North Charles Street campus to the Falls Road athletic facilities would travel only along main roads.

The champion took home $150 in prize money and a $50 medal. The margin of victory -- 11 strokes -- is still the record for a U.S. Open championship. The golf course on which it was played closed more than three decades ago.But go out to the elevated first tee at the original Baltimore Country Club in Roland Park and envision what it must have been like a century ago. Gaze out from the 100-foot drop and turn back the clock.Jack Emich has."I could picture the U.S. Open being played there," he said last week.

Louise Ward Hoskins, a volunteer at the Union Memorial Hospital gift shop for more than three decades, died from complications of a stroke Thursday at Church Home. She was 96.Born Louise Dietz in Youngstown, Ohio, to German immigrants, she was educated in public schools there and spent her young adulthood helping her father in the building of the Youngstown Hotel.She moved to Baltimore in 1925 with her husband, the late Thomas J. Ward, who served as a regional terminals superintendent for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad.

The city's oldest private school is buying 18 acres for athletic fields and tennis courts for $5.1 million from the Baltimore Country Club.Friends School of Baltimore on North Charles Street has signed a contract to buy the land along Falls Road, school and club officials said yesterday.School head Jon M. Harris said the additional land -- about a mile from the campus -- will allow the school to build eight more tennis courts, two soccer or lacrosse fields and a baseball diamond.The purchase is the latest proposed expansion among elite North Baltimore's private schools, which have been hemmed in. In May, Bryn Mawr School for Girls on West Melrose Avenue bought the Mount Washington Club lacrosse field and clubhouse for its athletic program.

Baltimore Country Club and Columbia CC set up a third successive meeting for the overall championship of the Maryland State team matches yesterday. Baltimore CC defeated Caroline CC, 12 1/2 -5 1/2 , and Columbia beat Beaver Creek CC, 11-7.At Baltimore CC, the home team got 7 1/2 points, including a 3-0 sweep by host pro Tony Pancake and Mike McShane. They were 3-up on the front nine and 1-up on the back against pro Bob Rementer and Ryan Yost.At Denton, Baltimore's Scott Hargest-Mike Reitz yielded their first point (actually half point)

Name: Tony PancakeClub: Baltimore Country ClubAge: 35Born: Columbus, Ind.Years a professional: 15Years at present club: First yearCareer highlights: As a player, played in the PGA of America club professional championship one year. During nine years in the PGA's Kentucky section, he held every office, including president, and numbers the section's professional-of-the-year honor among several awards. He developed a Kentucky Junior Golf Tour and was the head professional at Valhalla GC outside of Louisville when the PGA Championship was held there two years ago.Tip: In this day of everybody going for distance, I encourage players not to forget the short game.

NOTEworthy Day:It would certainly bring Baltimore and Washington closer together, and intensify what is a one-way rivalry, at least in a sporting way, if Peter Angelos buys the Redskins. He pegs such talk as unfounded rumor but adds, "If the opportunity arose, who knows?"Another Angelos development, which he says is true but not yet a done deal, has him entering into partnership with Cal Ripken in the new restaurant to be built alongside Camden Station. This afternoon at Baltimore Country Club, Lovey and George Young (now the NFL's assistant to the commissioner on football matters)

For all but one week of the year, the historic East Course at Baltimore Country Club is a lush, well-manicured private sanctuary for members, a tough but fair test that everyone from scratch players to those who shoot in triple digits can appreciate. But during the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship, which begins Thursday in Timonium, the iconic club long known as Five Farms is transformed. This lovely octogenarian that was laid out by legendary golf architect A.W. Tillinghast in the 1920s and renovated four years ago by Kentucky designer Keith Foster has a bit of a modern-day beast added to its timeless beauty.

With less than one week remaining until the Champions Tour returns to Baltimore for the final major of the season, tournament officials announced that the number of former Masters champions in the field has grown from five to nine. Ben Crenshaw, Sandy Lyle, Larry Mize and Fuzzy Zoeller have joined the field to take on Baltimore Country Club's Five Farms course for the Constellation Energy Senior Players Championship. The first round is Thursday. Crenshaw, a two-time Masters champion (1984 and 1995)

Arthur Eugene "Gene" Kohlhepp Jr., a retired salesman who earlier had owned and operated a vending machine company, died Sept. 3 of complications from Alzheimer's disease at The Pines Genesis Elder Care in Easton. The former longtime Monkton resident was 81. Born in Baltimore and raised in Homeland, Mr. Kohlhepp was a graduate of Boys' Latin School. He served in the Army near the end of World War II and was discharged in 1947. He worked with his father in sales at William Deitches & Co., a Baltimore tobacco distributorship, before establishing Colt Cigarette Vending in the 1960s.

Ann R. Knott, a homemaker who was active in several organizations including the annual Flower Mart, died of complications from a stroke Tuesday at the Edenwald retirement community in Towson. She was 92. Ann Reed was born in Baltimore and raised on Park Avenue. She was a 1935 graduate of the Institute of Notre Dame, where during her senior year she taught English to Chinese men at Grace & St. Peter's Episcopal Church, family members said. In the late 1930s, she attended Strayer Business College, and during World War II was a secretary at Overseas Air Service in Oakland, Calif.

Constellation Energy Group remains committed to sponsoring golf's Senior Players Championship at Baltimore Country Club in October, but an executive acknowledged Monday that the recession has raised concerns about its involvement beyond 2011. "This would not be something that we'd take on if there was no contract in place, but we will uphold our [five-year] commitment," said Stacey Ullrich, Constellation's executive director for marketing and community outreach. Organizers held an event Monday to launch awareness of the tournament, which raised $400,000 for local charities in each of the past two years.

BETHESDA - -The scene around the first tee at Congressional Country Club Friday was what most envisioned when Tiger Woods announced three years ago that he would be hosting a regular Professional Golf Association tour event over Fourth of July weekend. Fans stood five-deep in most places, 10-deep in others, hoping for a glimpse of the world's best player. But when Woods leaves after Sunday's final round of the AT&T National tournament, big-time golf in Maryland will suffer the latest painful blow.

Walter Andrew Romans Sr., a retired golf professional who worked at the Baltimore County Club for nearly four decades, died in his sleep April 16 at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Homeland resident was 93. Born in Warren, Mass., and raised in Utica, N.Y., he became a caddie as a teen to help support his family after his father's death. "He kept coming back, working hard and asking questions. He learned the importance of yardage, how to read the greens and, most important of all, friendly customer service," said his son, Walter Andrew Romans Jr. of Brookeville.

Seeking a compromise in Roland Park dispute At every bargaining table, each party must start by understanding what's non-negotiable for its opposition. So in the ongoing deadlock between Baltimore Country Club, Roland Park, the Keswick Multi-Care Center and now the city, it's useful to review the non-negotiables ("Roland Park proposal imperils zoning code," letters, Jan. 5). The Baltimore Country Club needs cash - at least fair market value for the 17 acres of land it has on the auction block to pay for capital improvements for its historic clubhouse.

The Baltimore Sun's editorial "Tie-breaker" (Dec. 15) rightly notes the stalemate between the Roland Park community and the Baltimore Country Club on the Keswick Multi-Care Center's plan to build an assisted-living facility on land that now belongs to the country club. This stalemate is an opportunity for the city to take a leadership role in moving the project out of Roland Park and into another area in the city that is in need of redevelopment. There is no need to destroy green space to build such a center when there are so many sites throughout the city, including near Roland Park, that are in need of redevelopment.

Richard Ayres Reid, a retired Towson attorney and outdoorsman, died last Monday of complications from a stroke at Union Memorial Hospital. He was 77. Mr. Reid was born in Baltimore and raised in Sparrows Point. He attended Sparrows Point High School and graduated from the Gilman School in 1949. He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1953 and his law degree from the University of Virginia Law School in 1956. After serving in the Navy as a lawyer, he joined the Towson law firm of Proctor, Royston & Mueller in the late 1950s.