Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-04
NO BIC JOURNEYS
! TO Be HELD HERE
p. G. A., Which viii Be
! Staged in Baltimore, Will
Be an Attraction.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.


sooistion championship and the tourney
for the Middle Atlantic Professional
Golfers Association championship.
Acting partly at the suggestion o.
Tommy Armour. last years nationa
open champion, and present holder o
the Canadian open, the midatlantlc pros
have virtually decided with the national
professional body asserting, that thS
local qualifying round for the national
professional match play championship
will be held at Concord Country Club OF
Wilmington. Del.
The championship of the Middle At
iaEJic Professional Golfers Association
held last wear at Indian Spring, which
resulted III . tie between Fred Nc
a,eod of Columbia and Leo Diegel of New
York. the latter defending his title. is
to be played at Richmond some time
iuring the Fall, 1t may be played at
the new course Of the Country Club of
Virginia, which was opened last Sat-
Urday.
But there is a hitch there, the pros
feeling that the money TO be donated by
the club or its members will be INSULT
fcient TO attract the high-claSS field
which ordinarily completes in this fix
ture. So it seems that both the big pro-
tessional events of the late Summer and
early Fall about Washington viii be
O4GSfGS "a bllC AsGBAASA NGdI
p. G. A. in Baltimore.
However, there is sure TO be some
balm. for what have We but the ma
tional professional match play cham
Rionship coming along during October,
and at such q fine course as that of
the Five Farms layout of the Baltimore
Country Club. Again the governing
board of the national p. @. A is acting
largely on the say-so of Tommy Armour,
Tor it was al his suggestion that the
rive Farms course was first considered
Tor the tourney. Tommy, it viii be
Remembered, qualified first in the P.
%. A. trials held last September at the
give Farms course, with Ralph Beach,
Ahen Of Burning Tree, just short dis
stance behind him. InaSmuch as the
professional Golfers Association title
Schase is to be held at Baltimore IS
miles away from the heart of the Cap
#tal, and such stars as Johnny Farrell,
The new open champion; Walter Hagen
Ezene Sarazen, Joe Turnesa and many
others viii be seen in action there, it
Us highly probable that many Capital
golf bugs viii make the journey daily to
the Monumental city TO see Walter
Hagen defend the crown he has won
without interruption since 1928.
We well remember that year at
French Lick, where Hagen outthought
and outpIayed Jim Barnes TO win the
title he has held on to ever since. How
Hagen. not as long nor as straight from
the tee as Barnes. used his brain to
beat the dour Cornishman. And that
Wear also we watched Gene Sarazen,
The defending champion, 60 down in
Hsefeat before the sterling golf of Larry
8gahholtZ, just then coming to the fore
IS national star.
u Fine Tourney 10 Watch.
The p. G. A. Is far different from
rom the open. In many ways 1t is q
better tournament 10 watch, for in this
match play event, the pros cast cau-
ficn TO the winds. and unafraid of the
effect Of bad shots on their scores, 90
for everything in Sight-and frequently
get Just that. We remember how
Charlie Hoffner of Philadelphia shot
81 In the FIRST round OF match play and
was down TO Henry Ciuci IN this
tourney at French Lick, against par
more viii be well worth watching by
any man fond Of looking at high-class
coll.
The Baltimore Country Club, always
doing the right thing and striving TO
It's utmost TO put over any event in
hang-up style, has foregone its Gus
tomary amateur tourney during the
Spring TO concentrate on the r. q. A.
In the Fall And We predict, knowing
the manner Of men on the committees
Of the club. that the p. @. A. viii set
b. mark for future tournaments to
shoot at.
To make matters more Immediately
Interesting, the debonair Johnny Far
felL new open titieholder, viii pair with
Gene Sarazen. holder of all the sun
burned CHAMPIONSHIPS in match at
be AN1F~s1C1z1 <11a nFf
moon Of July IL That's less than two
weeks away and ii is the only chance
Washington golfers viii have to see the
national champion in action before the
y. O. A.
While on the subject of profession
his and champions old and new, wee
Freddie Mcleod, the comeback king,
who played grand game over the first
. two rounds of the national open at
Chicago, will pair with Walter r. Hail,
pro at Rock Greek, in an exhibition
match at Rock Creek Park Friday
afternoon. Their opponents will be the
long-hitting Indian Spring pair. J.
Monro Hunter the club pro, and George
Di1enbaugh, his midget assistant, who
hits them as far as Hunter-sometimes
The match will be an 1e-hole affair,
starting at 2 O'Clock.
S0AEfB al al AGS Ct4U& dpOAb W6bt1~
fngton have a busy day before them
today. participating In all sorts Of faoli-
0ay events. from the eyer-popular
miniature tournament down TO the long
driving contests offered at two Of the
CLUBS.
In connection with the move inaugu.
rated by the Women's District Golf AS.
ISOLATION, 70 donate permanent trophS
in memory Of Mrs. Phyllis Keeier Miller
the ofhciai publication of the Wash.
3ngton Golf and Country Club '"Tht
Tee" has the following To say Of the
forthcoming memorial.
With the death Of Phyllis KeeIer Nil.
ier. the Washington Golf and Country
Club has lost a beloved and courageous
member Her interest in and affection
for the game never Jagged in the man,
years she was d leading spirit IN gol
about Washington. IL is with a desire
70 make tiae memory Of her splendid
qualities a living thing that the W0m'
ems District Colt Association Is plan
ming permanent memorial trophy In
the game she loved so well and in which
her craftsmanship Was unexcelled.
Appointments 10 the golf committe,
Of The Washington Golf and Countr,
Club golf committee have been an
bounced a. follows:
Fred ID. Paxton chairman, G. C. Car
lin Harry d eastman. " C. Dickey
Charles II. Doing. ID. r. EImore, Bel
J. Fuller, l.. G. Garrett, Earl r. Gates
J. Logan Hopkins, A. w. Howard, X
O. Hunt Walter r. Mccallum, JAIME
T. McCienahan. II. j. Norman. s. /
Mosby, John I. Power Thomas j. Rice
Charles r. Stewart, Ernest j Swift. w
III Throckmort0n, o. L. Veerh0ff. n
J. Wise.
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