Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-09-12

STEVENSON. Houghton and Newton
are also not new to national amateur
competition. TO Hufty, Baltusrol will
mark his first big-time event.
Pairings and starting times for the
local amateurs in the first half of the
qualifying round tomorrow follow:
900 a.m.-RoIand X. Mackenzie,
Columbia. and Silas. NJ. Newton,
Burning Tree.
1905 am.-Page Hufty, Con
gressiOnai, and Richard A. Jones,
jr., Westminster Hills.
1910 p.m.-Aliiler Il. StevinsOn,
Columbia. and W. {. Harris, Colo
NAL. Memphis.
100 p.m-A. l.. H0ughtOn,
Manor, and j. |. Crawford. Oak
mont.
les p.m.-ieorge j. Voigt, Ban
nockburn. and Harry Scharf, Lido.
The starting times will all be re-
versed in the second half of the quail
flying play Tuesday, with Voigt start
ing in advance of the other local en-
trants and Mackenzie and Newton
the last of the Washington cOntin-
gent to tee off. There are 1852 entrants
in the classic. with two 1S-hole match
play rounds scheduled for Wednesday
for the 80 Qualifiers and a 36-hole final
round on Saturday.
Bob Jones the defending title holder,
is paired in tie medal rounds with ID.
Clarke COrkran of Philadelphia, who
won the medal at Merton in 1924
Negotiations are going forward be-
tween officials of the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association and the Baltimore
Country Club for the playing of the
sectional womens golf championship
in the Oriole City this Fall. The sec
rotary of the association has written
the Baltimore Country Club, asking II
the club would be willing to hold such
a tourney. as was indicated last Spring
If the tourney is held a large entry
list is expected from Washington.
Baltimore, by the way, will hold two
Middle Atlantic Journeys this Fall il
the women's event is waged there.
The professionals in the Middle At
lantic section will hold their cham
pionschip over the course of the Roll
ing Road Golf Club on November .
and 6, beginning the day following
the Maryland open championship,
which has been thrown open to pros
outside the State. Sherwood Forest
will hold an open tourney on Novem-
Der ., and Immediately after the Mid
Atlantic event the pros will go TO
Virginia Beach to play in the open
tourney of the Princess Anne Club
near Norfolk.
Local golfers consider it unfortu-
nate that there should be q conflict of
dates between the Journeys scheduled
for the third week in September at
the Bannockburn Golf Club and the
Suburban Club of Baltimore County,
particularly inasmuch as Francis Oui-
met of Boston has promised to play
in the Baltimore event, and many
Washington golfers who have prom
Used to compete in the 3annOckburn
affair would like 20 so to Monumental
City.
The Bannockburn Club dates are
September 90, %. "a. and %, while
the Suburban Club has arranged it's
dates for September %. "a and 20.
The latter tourney will mark the
firS appearance of Francis Ouimet in
this, section since he won the Balti-
more Country Club invitation event
six or seven years ago. Entries Tor
the Bannockburn tourney close with
the club tournament committee on
Sunday, September 10.
Tommy Armour, popular pro at the
Congressional Country Club, got back
in Washington last Thursday, still
suffering from the rheumatism which
kept him off the course for more than
two weeks and will not permit him to
play again until October ].
DIR. James r.. McCIenahan of Wash
ington has secured samples of a new
kind of velvet bent grass from the
experimental station at the Arlington
farm of the Department OF Agrlcul-
! ture and has planted it on the Ole
| fourth green at the Washington Club.
Nearly 20 Indian Spring Club golf
| ers are playing today in medal rounds
to determine the Is men who will
| fight during the coming week for the
| club championship, now held by p. A.
Knox Two other flights will qualify
in the medal play rounds today. but
they will be decided in handicap com
petition. The first. or championship
| flight, will be played from scratch.
| The women's championship will also
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