Evening star., 1927-05-01


v v week of big time cempeti-
ton this week with the
playing of Washington Golf and Coun-
try Club Of it's annual Spring classic,
after a lapse OF a year. Last Spring
the tourney was not held. Instead
T the club entertained golfers of the
Middle Atlantic section in the cham
pionship tourney of the Middle At
lantic Golf Association.
This year Washington returns to
it's own tourney, one of the series or
club affairs which enliven the golI
season around the Capital and serve
to develop in competition the men
who represent this city in the larger
events. Entries for the Washington
event close tomorrow night at D
o'clock. with the club golf committee,
headed by f. d. Paxton. Two days
will be given over to QUALIFYING
Wednesday and Thursday - with
match play rounds running through
Friday and Saturday.
The entry list is expected to go
well over 200 players, as the Coiumbia
Country Club alone plans to enter
upward of 75 golfers.
Privileges of the club are open TO
tournament entrants from tomorrow
to Saturday After Thursday the
course will be open only to actual
tournament competitors. The usual
tournament dinner will be held FRI
day night.
The &. C. Carlin trophy will enter
it's second year of competition with
the washington tourney this Week
# was first won in 1926 by Roland H..
Mackenzie. Five flights of 10 are
listed. for the tourney, but this num-
ber may be stretched to SIX II war
ranted by the size OF the entry Asse.
The course of the club has been care
fully groomed for the tourney by tne
greens committee, under the chalr
naanship of DIR. j. T. MeClenahan ana
is in first class shape Tor the event.
DR.. r. j. Rice and Harold Rice win
play DiN T. d. Webb and Tenn Wep9
in the final round of the father anu
CON tourney at the Washington, Golf'
ana Country Club today. The Rices
and the Webbs won their way to the
final round in semifinal matches
played Yesterday. DIR. Rice and ms
son beat C. p. and Gordon stone.
and 1, while DR.. Webb and ms SON
downed Maj T.. w. Gushing and hex
Gushing. The tourney is being played
in Scotch foursonle style.
Little change has taken place in the
standings in the two.maa team
tournament in progress at the lnaiah
Gnrin0 Golf Club. The competition
win continue week ends through July
~ Fred Walen and Warren Heap
continue in the lead in the first dfvl-
son with Homer s.. Pope and George
Mr1lrov in front in the second division.
George Foley and K. r. Klucken con-
tinue in the lead in the third dlVlsion.
An Increase i'm the membership TO
$50 and possible advance in the green
fees for guests are among the ma
nortant questions to be decided by
inc beard OF governors. OF the Indian
Spring Club Tuesday night. john -.
Mccormack, chairman OF the greens
Cofnnajttea. who recently returned
frgn1 California, will attend his nrsl
board meeting in several months.
Tvso birdie IS were scored on one
hole in a sixsoms at Indian spring
last SUNDAY. DR. Il. r. Tilley and
George Mulroy each scored deuees on
the seventeenth in a six-baH mateh
late in the day. The pars OF Dr.
Thomas Utz and his son David We're
not good enough to get half.
Some times it doesn't pay to show
golf skill if it can't be produced ON
TAP. A Rock Creek Park player
found this out to his sorrow yesterday
when he attempted TO show TWO
young women how to make n1aanle
shot across the creek at the seven
teenth. After the women had put
thejI. shots into the creek, he made
three unsuccessful tries without get
ffne, the ball acresS the water. -And
then gave it up as a bad job, While
thev laughingly told him they were
abls to put the ball as far as the
water, too.
Chevy Chase players yesterday conf
pleted qualifying for the French High
Commission Cup. Pairings for the
tourney, which starts next Wednes.
day, viii be posted at the clubhouse
tomorrow.
ARRANGEMENTS for the first big ex-
ribjfion match of the season, present.
ing four Of the world foremost pro-
fassional golfers, are going ahead at
the Congressional Country Club. war
fer Hagen. professional nlatch-plaY
champion, and Gene SaraZen, former
ooan and match play champion, VIE
attenut to take fall out of Tommy
Armour, the Congressional pro, anu
Bob Cruickshank of New YORK next
sunday In q 36-hole exhibition match
at the Congressional Club. The fIrst
round will start at $50, with the sec
ond round billed to get under way
about 2 o'clock. Armour and Crufck-
shank won the international four.bau
matches at Miami, Fla, during the
Winter, and ever since have been the
target Of professionals who believe
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Tho match win mark Hagen's first
appearance at a Washington club In
six years and the first big-time APP
pearance here of Cruickshank, who
turned professional in 1921.
Tommy Armour OF the Congression-
al Country Club is the only local
golfer who is exempt from qualifying
for the national open championship
on June 6 next, the United States
Golf Association has announced In
q program for the open titular tilt, to
be played June Ii, Is and 16, at the
oakmont Country Club of Pitts
burgh. The champion and the first
IS players ana ties are not required
to qualify
Three amateurs are in the list
Robert Il. Jones'. jr., who won the
title al Sclol0 ldSl July, CnaFleS
EvansAjr,. of Chicago, and Harrison
r. .EohWston of ST. Paul.
Seventeen sectional 36-hole quail
flying rounds win be played through
out the United States on June q,
from which about 120 men will be
chosen To go TO 0akmoat. Roland
r. Mackenzie Of Columbia, who will
enter the championship, will compete
In the Qualifying round at the Wan