Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-23

tn HERE will be no Middle Atlantic
Professional Golfers Association
medal play championship this
i Fall Postponement of the orig
inal date of the affair. sched-
uled to be played at Congressional the
latter part of this week, has forced the
association to consider the probability
of conflict with other and larger
tournaments, with the result that the
tourney has been abandoned for this
Fall and will not be played until next
April
Leo Ciegel will thus hold the title
he won last year until after the big
Winter events in the South and West
have been played.
Specifically, the proposed new date
for the mpionship-November l and
2-conf1icts with the dates for playing
the Oklahoma open title chase, for
which an imposing purse has been put
up and in which many professionals
who also intended to play in the mid
Atlantic have entered. Among these
are Johnny Farrell and Bob Cruick-
shank Of New York, the former the ma
tional open champion and the latter a
recent winner of the Maryland open.
After consultation with officials of the
Congressional Country Club and with
several New York pros, the committee
in charge of the affair decided to fore
go holding the tourney this year.
The decision robs Washington of the
sole remaining big tourney listed locally
for the waning season of 1928. But
1t will add interest to the Spring sea-
son for the tourney of the midatlantic
closely after the Richmond open,
which is scheduled as an annual affair
over the course of the Glenwood Club
In the Virginia State capital.
Leo Di1gel will play an exhibition
match next Sunday over the course of
the Rolling Road Club of Gainesville,
Md, and will then join the touring
troupers of golfdom in their jaunt West
to Oklahoma and thence to the Pacific
Coast. Tommy Armour plans to be in
on this party of professionals and will
defend the Oregon State open cham
pionship which he won last year in a
thrilling last-round fight with DR.. o. F.
Willing, nationally famous Pacific Coast
amateur.
S. Percy Thompson, member of Co.
lumbia Club, won the principal trophy
put up for the annual tournament of
the Washington Rotary Club, played
yesterday at Columbia. registering 81
1878 to finish one stroke in front of
Charles T. Claggett, who had 98-24-
"a Clyde B. Asher won the gross prize
with card of IS, four strokes in front
of L. w. Laudick and Fred B. Pyle,
both of whom scored 49, John Brewer
won the high gross prize with 116.
Other net prizes were won as follows:
o. r. Evans, 99-24-75; Fred B. Pyle,
89-13-76; John Dolph, 1O5-26-79:
w. w. Griffith, 109-30-79; F. w.
Seibold. 101-22-79 M. E. Horton, 1O1
--22-79; Paul v. Lum. 104-24-30;
L. w. Laudick 89-8-81.
Rock Greek Parks H.'Oily Boids" have
completed their october tourney with
Crockett, one of the most consistent
players of this unique organization,
winner of the event. The "Oily Boids"
are an organization of Government
employees and a few others who play
golf long before most of Washington
Is awake. Their match play rules
provide that all contestants in their
tournaments must be on hand at the
clubhouse at Rock Greek by $40 am.
on Mondays. except in the event of
torrential rain, tornadoeS, floods and
jury duty. They are hardy individuals,
who fear not heavy dew or high winds,
and let nothing short of severe down
pour stop their golf.
Here are the results of the October
tourney: