Evening star., 1928-09-09
AMATEURS, JUNIORS
AND PROS IN ACTION.
Schedule Also includes an
Event for SouthpaW
Club SWingers.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

BY WALTER X. Met ALUM.
- OLF around Washington is re-
covering from its usual Sum-
T mer complaint-lack OF COM
~ petition. Old Doc Cool Wealth
er has returned and late re-
ports show the patient to be gradually
recovering from the severe attack OF
iethargic encephalitis sleeping sick
ness) brought on by warm weather
and brown patch.
The patient had a relapse last week,
but he will burst into robust health
this week in two widely separated To-
calities in which the competition will
have a very decided local tinge. For
while a half dozen of the outstanding
amateur stars of the Capital are con-
cluding their practice sessions today
for the national championship of the
simon pureS, professional golfers about
Washington, Baltimore and Norfolk will
be looking forward to the qualifying
round tomorrow for the national pro,
.fessional match play championship and
Junior golfers and left-handed golfers
of the city will be anticipating at least
three tournaments in which two cham
pionships will be decided.
Roland r. Mckenzie and Miller b.
Stevinson of Columbia A. l.. Houghton
and Harry G. Pitt of Manor, Reid w.
Digges of Bannockburn and Page Hutty
of Congressional are in Boston today.
concluding their practice rounds for the
amateur championship. which starts to-
morrow over the lengthy course OF the
Brae Burn Club near the city OF cod
fish. intelligentsia and radicals. Their
big hurdle will come in the next two
DAYS. when the 36-hole qualifying round
for the amateur championship must be
surmounted successfully. From the
viewpoint of disinterested observer. 1t
looks as if the boys would do very well
to qualify two of their number in the
personally conducted tour of Bobby
Jones toward another amateur title.
Pros will Start Tomorrow.
Meanwhile the pros, thwarted by tons
of water in their qualifying round last
Thursday at Indian Spring, will move
on the Four Corners course tomorrow
to battle for the two places awarded to
this section for the national profess
sional match play championship, which
will be played at the Five Farms course
of the Baltimore Country Club the
first week in October. And small
field OF Junior golfers of the Columbia
Country Club will ronp through the
qualifying round and the first match
play round tomorrow in the Junior
championship of the club, to prepare
the way for the semi-flnal and final
rounds on Tuesday.
To make matters more interesting
tomorrow the woman golfers OF the city
will resume their monthly tournaments
with a miniature event at the Chevy
Chase Club, with all the competitors
urged to be at the first tee ready to
play before $50 o'clock. The Columbia
junior championship will be out of the
way late Tuesday afternoon, and
Wednesday morning a choice field of
junior players, numbering among them
sons of the stars of the invitation
tournaments, will gather at Indian
Spring to contest for the District
junior title.
This will be 36-hole medal play
event, and only two prominent juniors
will be out of the competition. Page
Hufty will be in Boston competing for
the bigger title and Frank K. Roesch
will also be in the Hub in the capacity
of an onlooker. Roesch was one of the
local hopefuls whose application to play
In the amateur was denied by the
United States Golf Association.
Ali of which makes it look as If COM
petitive golf around Washington again
was on its feet. But the end is not
yet, for on Thursday comes the fir9'
annual Namandji Nindj tournament at
Indian Spring, SO called because OF the
Cherokee Indian word for left handed
Truly Indian Spring wiR be the center
of golf events locally this week, for all
the left-hsnders around the Capital,
and around Baltimore and Richmond,
will gather at the Four Corners Club
Thursday for the genesis of what looks
as If it might become very attractive
local fixture.
Tournaments for left-handers 60 big
round the larger cities of New York
and Chicago. Indeed, in the latter city
is held annually what is termed the
national left-handed championship
Tommy Bones and Byrn Curtiss loom
as likely contestants in the first left
handed event at Indian Spring and it
would not be surprising to see one of
them come in under the wire and take
home the big cup put up last Spring
by DR.. L. A. Reeves, whose happy idea
it was to start the left handed tourna-
ment
Playing Schedule for Pros.
will be shared during the early part of
S1AC NCCh Will PAoJ AiA IA1C AON0A oAAo -
centering chiefly around the Indian
Spring Club. Returning to the pros
again, their competition tomorrow
means more than simply the mere
qualifying of two of their number for
the national championship, for 16 of
them will qualify for the Middle At
lantic Professional Golfers Association
match play championship, due to start
eight days hence.
Here is the way the pros will start
tomorrow:
$50 and 1:3O-Eugene Larkin. Chevy
Chase: Glenn S. Spencer. Baltimore;
r. Cliff McKimmie. unattached.
9:35 and l :35-James Powers unat-
tached; c. T. McMaster. Rolling Road;
Tony Penna, Congressional.
GAO and 1:40-David Thomson,
Washington; William Wood, Washing
ton and William Scott Baltimore
Country Club
GAS and 1:45-Warner Mather
Wcodholme, Baltimire; Ralph Beach,
Suburban. Baltimore; Kenneth Allen,
unattached
$50 and 1:5O--J Monro Hunter, In