Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-01
TOMMY PROVIDES PRIZES
FOR TOURNEY THIS WEEK
Fair Sex Players Are Invited Take Part in Affair
Congressional Friday-McLeod Would Curta
Galleries at Title Matches.

over the rugged Oakmont course for
the Pennsylvania open championship,
which starts tomorrow. John Farrell,
the new national open champion. is the
present holder of the title. and will
defend Farrell and Sarazen are Sched
| uled 10 play an exhibition match on
July IA al the Maryland Country Club.
Speaking of galleries and their effect
on the players, we have it from one of
! the Atlanta newspaper men that the
failure of Bob Jones to get down in two
shots from the back edge of the saith
/ green i'll the playoff with Farrell last
/ Sunday-the failure that cost him the
championship, as later events proved
/ was due to a woman IN the gallery who
/ would not or could not move far
enough back to let the Atlanta amateur
swing his club This woman crowded.
/ or was pushed by the crowd behind. so
! close to Jones that he hadn't room TO
/ swing his club for that short shot"
| the newspaper man said. Jones prac-
/ tice swing caused his club to strike
her ankle, and on the shot itself his
swing was curtailed."
The facts show that Jones took three
to get down from a position 90 feet back
of the pin, where his ball had come
to rest on a grassy bank which literal
~ formed part of the putting surface.
We stood on a high bank overlooking
the green and it could not truth
fully be said that Jones swing was
curtailed because of the pushing of the
gallery. Indeed, it looked as if Jones
had been given plenty of room to make
the shot.
The next tourney of the Womens
/ District Golf Association will be played
July 10. at the Town and Country Club.
Mrs. Jerome Meyer will be the hostess
on this occasion. 1t will in no way in
terfere with the tourney for the Armour
trophies at Congressional next Friday.
Harry G.. Pitt. the new Middle
Atlantis Golf Association champion.
will head a team of u Manor Club
players who will go to Bannockburn
this afternoon for a match with the
club swingers of the Glen Echo organ
ization, Pitt probably will be paired
against John c. Shorey, Bannockburns
leading player. This pair met in the
final of the Midatlantic. with Pitt VIC
torious on the nineteenth hole.
Middleton Beaman, chairman of the
golf committee at Bannockburn, thought
he was getting to be quite a golfer
WALcii ilC StdI ISQ q lOuIlu at ltlS ATteH
Echo Club the other day with trio of
brides. He was out in Sc after
5, 4. 8 start, one over par for the first
nine holes. but the balance of the
round is a deep, dark secret.
A one-day invitation tournament for
woman players at the clubs hereabout
mas been announced by the Washington
Golf and Country Club. to be held on
the Virginia course Monday. July 16
Invitations have been sent to all the
local clubs and to clubs in nearby Mary
land and Virginia
Entrants will be divided into three
classes on the basis of their club
handicaps. although the tourney itself
will not be handicap affair. Glass A
players viii include those with handi-
caps from scratch TO 10; class B. those
from IL TO 20, and class c, those with
81 and over
Entries with f1andicaps must be re-
ceived at the Washington Golf and
Country Club by Saturday, July IA
Play viii tart at am. except to those
entrants from out of the city, in which
case the starting time will be extended
to 10 O'Clock. Privileges of the club are
extended TO all entrants in the tourney
on Friday, july Is.
John Thacker annexed the Henry
Williams trophy at Bannockburn yes
terday. defeating H c. Wood By ] up
in the final round Wood conceded
.Thacker a handicap of two strokes and
there never was a difference of more
than two holes in the match