Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-25
|ERE IGNORES HIS STARS
PROS TO PLAY HERE
Columbia Country Club Will
Hold Open Golf Tourney.
CLASSY FIELD ENTERED

! For the first time since 1906 golf
players of Washington and those in
terested in the game will this spring
| have an opportunity to witness a num-
| Der of first-class professionals in ac-
ton. Plans practically have been COM
| pleted by a number of Columbia Coun-
| try Club men to hold thirty six-hole
medal play tournament over the CO.
| lumbia course April 3. The date is
subject to possible change. as condi-
lions on that day may not be entirely
| satisfactory for the holding of the
event, but it is certain thing that the
/ Columbia Country Club will entertain
! practically the cream of the profess
sional golfers of the country on some
/ date in April.
! Dr. Walter S. Harlan. vice president
of the United States Golf Association
| and chairman of the greens committee
of the Columbia Country Club. has
| been at Augusta Ca. for the past
| three weeks. Last week q big profess
| Country Club, in which large num-
Der of the leading professionally played
| and which was won by Mike Brady OF
Oakley, Mass. Several of the pros ap-
| preached Harlan. sign1fylng thelr oe
on their way north. He wrote Alpheus
| Winter, a member Of the greens com.
| mittee of Columbia and an officer of
the District Golf Association: ASKING
his opinion of holding professional
| tourney about the time for the annual
| migration of the professionals from
/ the south Winter replied. aiter nav
! ;nr sounded several influential men,
i hers of Columbia, that he was of the
| opinion that the tourney would be a
! tine thing as the opening competition
i of the 1917 season. and even went SO
| far as to suggest that IL De made Ill
| annual spring fixture.
! Famous Players in List.
The list of professionals who have
sienified their desire to play embraces
the greatest players in the country
men who have been in the money OF
won major championships in the las'
ten wears. and includes Walter Hagen
! metropolitan and western open cham
/ rion; Jim Barnes of Phlladeiphla
| champion of the Professional Golfers
Association; Alex. Smith of WykaSyl
| three times open champion; Mike braas
of Oakley, Wilfred Reid of Whining
! ton, Gilbert Nichols of Great Neck
| Tom Mcnamara of Boston, former
! metropolitan champion and runner-uI
: in the 1913 national open; Jack Jolly OF
New York Fat Doyle of Myopia, EDDIE
Loos of New York and Emmett French
| of York. Bob Mcdonald of New YORK
and Jock Hutchinson of Pittsburgh
! runner-up in both professional cham
/ pionships this year, also probably Will
play This field indicates the class OF
tourney.
Columbia will be the first club south
of Philadelphia and north of Pinehurs1
to entertain such a scintillating bunch
of goifing talent and great credit is
due Harlan and the men behind the
event.
The course in April probably will be
a little soft. depending upon what the
weather is like in March. II March
lives up to. it's traditions in the matter
of wind and dries the course out, the
professionals will find a golf course the
equal of any south of New York and
one which will test their skill to the
utmost. All the local professionals will
be there. battling for slice of the
prize money. which, as near as can be
$3.50, and it is not unlikely that Fred
Mcleod. with his knowledge of local
conditions, will make some of the out
/ of-town talent step right along to keep
in the game. Golf fans will at least
| witness a treat from the standpoint OF
long walloping with the wood, for
Brady, Hagen. Nichols, Barnes and Pat
| Doyle are among the mightiest swat
tiers in the land.
The north and south open champion
ship at Pinehurst, with it's lavish dis
play of prize money. will have the at
tention of the professionals for the
| three days. March 20. 80 and 81, then
they will come on to Washington, the
vanguard arriving here Sunday, April
!, allowing them two days Of practice.