Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-30
Armour Lone D. C.. Hope in Pro
Golf Title Tourney This Week
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

TIVE shifting scenes OF nationa
Golf championships move this
week to the rolling layout of the
SPLENDID Five Farms course OF
the Baltimore Country Club
where the stage is set for the playing
of the professional match play cham
pionship-the high spot of the year If
purely professional competition and ar
event that has produced more spec
tacular golf since its inception more
! than a decade ago than any other ma
! tional tournament.
The open championships 72-holt
medal play event-has its gripping
/ moments when the lead vacillates be-
| tween two or three or perhaps nall
dozen men.
The amateur title chase has Its
breath taking interludcs, But the
amateur is dominated by the person
atty of che man. and all the other
matches arc merely incidents to the
great qucStion-can any one peat
Jones?
The P. G.. A.. on the other hand
even though Hagen has won for the
last four years. is a greater show than
either the open or the amateur. For
here are gathered together the finest
professional golfers Of the land, IN a
type of the game where a missed shot
or two does not necessarily mean the
championship. but only one hole.
ANY one who believes there may be
something of a tea party atmosphere at
Five Farms this week is in for a rude
shock. For the pros, glorying In the
lifting of the tension that always is
with them in medal play, 60 for every
thing in sight. and frequently get Just
that. The tournament menu calls for
a 36-hole qualifying round tomorrow
with 80 to qualify for the subsequent
match play rounds. All the matches
will be ct SO holes through the final on
Saturday.
Armour Lone ID. c. Hope.
Tommy Armour of Congressional is
the lone local hope. And Tommy is
no weak and pliable reed for any man
to pin his hopes upon He has been
galloping around the local courses at
blistering pace this year, scoring SO
frequently below 10 that even score
of IS over such a layout as Congress
sional is more or less commonplace.
Last year at Dallas, Tex, where the
p @. A, championship was held.
Tommy dropped before the CALLING fire
of Hagen in the third round. But
Tommy then was tired by an endless
round of exhibition matches on swing
around the small town circuit that car
ried him out to the West Coast.
This year he is in no such shape.
He has played golf when he pleased,
prscticed when he pleased and alto
gether is in a fine spot, mentally and
physically to relieve the great Haig
IF the crown he has worn so becomingly
for the past four years.
Hagen is very anxious to win, and
thereby set mark for the rest of the
pros to shoot at by anneXing the pro-
fessional match play title five years In
row But so are Sarazen. Turnesa,
Diegel, Klein. Golden. Melhorn, Espi-
nosa and bunch of others. The effort
of Hagen--he of the great golf brain.
and the great shotmaker--to win again
should be an epic we'll worth watching.
The lone dull spot across the Balti-
more horizon is the fact that Johnny
Farrell of New York. the open cham
pion. is not to be contestant. Farrell
failed to qualify in the sectional tests
held a month ago in New York and
must be satisfied with one national title
this year.
While the professionals are busy in
Baltimore, the woman golfers Of Co
lumbla ana lndlan Spring Will engage
in battle for the two-club champion
ships They are scheduled to run con-
currently. for the qualifying round in
both championships will be held Octo-
Der 8. with 18-hcle match play rounds
to follow
Next week will see big gathering Of
Woman golfers at the Princess Anne
Club of Virginia Beach. Va, where
the womans championship of the
Middle Atlantic Golf Association will
open on October 9. This event also
starts with an l8-hole qualifying round,
with match play rounds of similar dis
lance to follow. Entries for this tour