Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-07
~ WALTER r. McCALLUM.

w WITH the mid-Atlantic section
n qualifying round for the
NV Professional Golfers Associa-
/ Y ton postponed yesterday
until Monday because OF a
course almost submerged by the heavy
rains of the past two days. the Middle
Atlantic Professional Golfers Assoc!a-
I, ton has announced unique plan for
playing its first annual match play
championship.
Briefly the plan, as announced by
Charles P. BetSchler, president of the
association. calls for playing of the
tournament on three courses. two in
Baltimore and one IN Washington.
With two of their number to qualify
for the national professional match
play championship in 36-hole
tournament at Indian Spring next Mon
day. the pros will also qualify Is of
their number for the sectional match
play championship. The Elkridge Hunt
Club of Baltimore will be the scene of
the first and second rounds of match
play on September II. The surviving
semi-finalists will meet on September
"a at the Congressional Country Club.
Then the scene will shift to the Five
Farms course of the Baltimore Country
Club, where the finaliSts will play on
day during the last week in Septem-
Der. The national professional match
play Championship for the title now
held by Walter Hagen will start over
the Five Farms course on october /.
Only a handful of the professionals
from the Middle Atlantic section were
on hand yesterday at Indian Spring
prepared to play in the local sectional
qualifying round. It was raining hard,
the course was soaked and doleful Dick
Watson, the club greenkeeper, looked
more doleful than ever as he gazed
out over his beloved course and visioned
divots flying in all directions from
soaked turf He called Homer S. Pope,
chairman of the club golf committee,
on the telephone and Pope ordered the
course closed for the day. So the pro-
fessionalS hastily got in touch with
headquarters of the Professional Golf
ers' Association in New York and Sc
cured permission to hold the local
qualifying round at Indian Spring next
Monday.
Then the question of the District
Junior championship, scheduled for de-
cision todaysat Indian Spring. came up.
Pope called DR.. William G. Barr. Sec
rotary of the District Golf Association.
on the telephone and recommended
that that event also be postponed. Barr
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at Indian Spring next Wednesday, with
the same pairings and starting times
as announced in The Star yesterday.
Meanwhile. over at Columbia, oppo-
sition had developed among the juniors |
of that club to holding the club Junior |
championship at such late date.
September II was the date originally |
set by the junior committee composed of |
Darcy Banagan and j. F. Brawner |
The officials went into huddle and set |
the tourney for next Monday and Tues |
day. An 18-hole qualifying round will |
be played Monday morning with two |
Fights to qualify Semi-final and final |
rounds at 1c holes each will be played |
Tuesday.
Decision to postpone two tournaments |
because of wet course is somewhat |
unusual in championship golf, but the |
officials made the right move in view |
of the condition of the Indian Spring |
layout. The fairway all held pools OF