Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-01

gracious gesture IoT the woman
golfers of washington. TIL,
II Canadian open champion ha!
presented to the woman golfers
pf the city q number of prizes to ht
played for i'll a tourney at COMPRESSION
III next Friday.
! All the woman golfers of the city
have been invited by Armour and the
Nomen's District Golf Association tc
take part In the affair, and both the
Honor of the trophies and the woman S
organization hope that every woman
softer in the Capital will take part in
The event
The affair will be an is-hole medal
tlay tourney. to start at 10 o'clock next
Friday morning. Handicaps arranged
by the Womens District Golf ASsocia-
tinn will apply and at the conclusion
Of the tourney the donor Of the
trophies will present them 10 the sue
eeSSful contestants. Entries should be
sent to Mrs II. A. Knox, and pairings
vii he made at the tee. All players
are urged to be at the tee ready to start
by 10 am. in order that there may not
be unnecessary delay in getting the
tourney under way.
Felix e. Early and Norman B. Frost
are to play today in S6-hole mai
round for the Tribal Bowl at the IN
L. L, steele are the flnalisls in the
beaten eight. They also are TO play
today.
Rear Admiral Norton, L. S. ~, re-
tired. a former member of the golf COM
naittee of the Chevy Chase Club, Is
somewhat of a theorist in the matter
Of golf clubs. Admiral Norton beieVeS
there is q good deal in the theory that
e41f IN the fare Nf
iron clubs impart cut or spin 10 the
ball So last week he selected new
set of iron heads in the shop Of Bob
Barnett. the Chevy Chase pro. and
sent them to an iron stamping mil to
Be. stamped They came back With
ecncentric- designs cut all over the
faces, and now Barnett is Shafting
them: Norton hopes they will improve
bis game.
Fred Mcleod of Columbia. whose
return 70 form was one of the OUT
Standing features of the open cham
pionship at Olympia Fields. is a firm
Believer in curtailing the size of the
galleries which follow the big cham
pionship tournaments. Holding that
The open championship is tourney to
decide the leading medal player of the
year and that virtually all of the play
erS are disturbed by the immense gal
ieries who troop back and forth across
the fairways IN the wake of the fav-
orites, Mcleod suggests that some
method Of reducing the size Of the gal
leries is badly needed. Indeed, he
would 90 step further and cut down
the size of the playing field from the
approximately $50 contestants who
have played in the open championship
for several years past.
Il haven't any doubt. :" Mcleod says.
that the play of all the competitors in
The open championship suffered to some
extent because of the galleries. The
parallel fairways a. Olympia Fields
and the narrowing effect of the woods
Fhich flank some Of the holes made
large galleries difficult to handle.
Naturally, every one wanted to see
Jones and Hagen. They were the
outstanding gallery favorites. And
every other player in the tournament
suffered because OF the rush of the
gallery TO see these two play. Jones
had the greatest gallery. and the way
the thousands Of persons charged from
green 20 tee TO get an advantageous
spot 70 see him drive was nothing il
not harmful to the game of those who
were near him With Hagen it was
the same way"
to members of golf galleries who would
see the open be raised from 81 day to
some such figure as SO day per per-
kon. Another suggestion is that only a
Efuited number of gallery tickets be
sold. and that they be auctioned of
weeks in advance Of the championship
10 q limited number of persons, who
would be handled with. strict severity.
Mcleod had no complaint with the
handling Of the gallery by the officials
Of the Olympia Fields Club. But he feels
mat every gallery is made up largely
Of golfers who should know better than
20 disturb the other players by daShine
from point to point for position of
advantage.
The championship at Chicago by the
way, vas quite money maker for the
Emitted States Golf Association Members
Of the Olympia Fields Club-and the
club has a total membership of 1900
here given a special rate for admission.
But at the same time total Of nearly
12s, 900 was raised during the three days
Of play and the play-of week ago
today. Which is not so bad, but still Is
somewhat smaller than the money raised
IN other championships Of recent date,
notably that at Oakmont last year and
81 Inwood five years ago when Jones
and Cruickshank tied for the title Add
ed 10 the 5000 in entry fees from the
more than 1000 original entrants in
1ie championship, the total raised from
che open approximates $4,000.
5 Both Mcleod and Tommy Armour
zYe ardent advocates Of a considerable
upward revision IN the scale of prize
money awarded the professional con-
testants In the open. Both would null
etply the present first money Of $500
by at least 10. and make first prize in
the open something like $1,000 as BELTS
the tourney which has now become the
biggest IN the world. Time was when
4ke British open meant more than the
American open but now that Ameri-
cans have monopoiized the British open
che American open has come ~ mean
FAR more than the championship Of
4iae little isle.
Several open tournaments throughout
the United States now far outstrip the
national opcn in the money involved
Ag a prize The Los Angeles open. with
It's SIC. 900 prize total, and the La GORGE
zDDen at Miami. with It's $4,000 prize
total. are Just two Of the many whose
Apr.ze money totals far more than the
national open championship
For the total Of prize money diStrib-
afted In the national is exactly 81 l45
And we dare say. with Mcleod and
sArulO0Ts Anab EN1Adi4o I1dltOchs "Io ibt-
4gfed third. and Ia second place, In Sc
FAR as money winnings are concerned
did not get enough 10 pay his expenses
10 Chicago. let alone his expenses u
Kansas City. where he went TO play IN
The mid American open Immediately
after the national
Bob Jones, Of course. did not get q
asnoney prize The money he would
have gotten had he been a pro, passed
on 70 Hancock, and the money Vor
gin would have gotten had he beer
"a pro, passed 10 Walter Hagen, with
whom he tied for third place at 296.