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GOLF GOSSIP

After a lapse of seven years the
| Middle Atlantic section is to have an
other major golf tournament.
Award yesterday of the Professional
Golfers Association championship to
the Baltimore Country Club. to be
played over the Five Farms course of
the club in 1928. brings to this section
of the country the first major tourney
| it has had scheduled since 1921, when
the national open was held at Co
| lumbia.
The event will bring together some
| 60-odd Of the leading professional
golfers of the Nation to compete for
| the title which has been won for the
| last three years by Walter Hagen.
| Great credit is due the officials of
| the Baltimore Country Club for the
spirited manner in which they backed
up the bid of the club for the tourney
and put up the money to ''Cinch" the
event. The sum of $4,000 has been
guaranteed for the tourney, which Is
expected to be made up in payment OF
gate fees at So per head.
The Baltimore Country Club first
entered the field in bidding for the
championship at the suggestion OF
Tommy Armour of Congressional, the
national open champion. Tommy led
field of some 80 golfers in the sec
tional qualifying round for the T. G..
A. held over the Five Farms course
last September. At that time he sus.
gested that the club enter the field
for the pro match play championship
a suggestion that found favor with
the golf committee of the club
Local Pros Endorsed Plan.
Within the last few days Fred Me.
I4eod Of Columbia, Ralph Beach OF
Burning Tree and several other pros
from this section Of the country wired
the Professional Golfers Association
indorsing the plan to hold the 7. u.
A. at Baltimore. The association
meeting yesterday in Detroit. accept
French Lick, Ind. club and the Fresh
Meadow Club Of Long Island.
SO this section of the country, which
has been neglected by the United
States Golf Association. has been
chosen by the professionals to hold
their match play championship, over
A course which is declared to be the
equal of any in the East. The golf
committee plans to start work i'm
mediateiy to strengthen the course
along the line OF suggestions made in
September by Armour, VINO Is mem
her of the governing board of the
p. G. \.
IN addition to the T. G. a. event
the Marylan nd open championship is
to he held over the Five Farms course
of the Baltimore Country Club. With
these two big Journeys in line, 1t is
not probable that the club will press
it's bid for the Middle Atlantic anna.
teur championship. making it likely
that this fixture will go to the Con-
cressional Country Club next year.
Baltimore and Congressional were in
the field for the tourney at the an
nual meeting OF the association last
March, but withdrew in favor of the
Norfolk County Club, which had
priority.
The Maryland amateur champion
ship is to be played at the Elkridge
Hunt Club on June IS. % and so.
while the women's championship of
Maryland will be held at the Suburban
Country Club of Baltimore.
Alex A. Armour of Congressional.
brother of Tommy. the open cham
pion, has put in a bid for the pro-
fessional berth at the Suburban Club
of Baltimore. which is to be vacated
by Alex Taylor on January 1.