The Washington times., 1925-07-08

Municipal Links Tournament
Qualifying Play viii Be
Ended Tonight
By ROSS CONKLIN.


A change in the time for match
play in The Washington Times
championship East Potomac Park
tournament has been made in
order to avoid the usual Saturday
crowds on the links.
The first rounds. Of match play
will be started tomorrow morning,
instead of Friday. That will bring
the finals down TO Friday instead
of Saturday. Players should take
note of the change.
Morning papers tomorrow viii
carry the official pairings and
time of play for the matches. As
soon as the last card has been
turned in tonight, the writer and
his corps Of assistants will get
busy on the cards, and the lucky
golfers will be paired and matched
immediately. Don't forget that
the match play starts Thursday
instead of Friday.
The golfers dinner that is SEIZED.
uled for Thursday night is all ser.
Even the plates has been given an.
other raking over, and has been
adjusted to the highest degree.
All VINO qualify for the t0urnaFn emit
need only to put in their appear
ance at the dinner to get In. Their
names will be at the door, AMI this
writer win see that they get asgoud
seat and plenty Of food.
There is no red tape connected
with the Arlington program. II
your name is in the papers tomor-
row as one Of those who qualified,
then just hustle up to the Airing
ton and get a seat at the table
There has been more room ar
ranged for than can possibly be
used, so don't fear not getting in.
Up until o'clock tonight quail
flying cards will be accepted.
Many cards have been turned in
for eighteen and twenty-seVen
holes, and three score have sent
I'm one card, but only those who
have sent in the full thirty.six
holes will be given consideration.
Then the winners and runners up
will be taken to Kefth's Theater as
. the guests Of this paper and Mr..
Roland Robbins. That night will
be a big one for the gang. Box
seats in the Keith's Theater to see
the best performance in vaudeville.
That is some startling program.
Not many of the boys plan to miss
that affair.
Much speculation is rife as to the
probable winner and runner up OF
fhA tn offAnnnf tn
foreteu who will win a golf tourna-
ment is foolhardy, and the guessers
can take all the guesses they want
and still be wrong.
Startling upsets are frequent in
golf. There is no telling when a
supposedly dub shooter il going to
turn around and shoot his head off
in well-nigh perfect golf. They go
into match play and either crack
with a loud bang or gather them
selves together with alacrity. The
writer has seen the best of them
forced to the limit to beat Under.
dogs, and it may be that way il
this tournament.
The winner and runner.up will
be sent to Garden City. Long
Island, as the guests Of this
paper. They will play in the ma
tiOnal municipal links tournament
with every possible expense paid.
The United States Golf AsSOcia-
ton has officially given its ap-
pr0val to the expenses, and that
means that they must be correct.
The change in the starting time
will inconvenience some and will
aid others. It was necessary to
make the change because of the
highly crowded links on Saturday.
None Of the golfers enjoy going
around when a big crowd is in
front and behind.
The writer is sorry to say that
he found it necessary to throw out
about forty cards. Many sent in
manifested cards. Others have no
names on the faces. and still others
were written so as to be uninteIli-
rible. Numerous Intersections were
found in the addition of the cards,
but the writer did his duty and
added them over again.
Some players had as high az three
strokes too many. Others were a
showed them to be. In all such in
stances the cards We're corrected,
end the PLAYERS were given the
benefit of the correction.
If the sixty odd who have turned
IN either two or three hole cards
can get busy today they will easily
have time for the completion of
their cards of &c holes