Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-07-31
BUDDING STARS OFFERING
TROUBLE FOR VETERANS
Dozen or More Here Who Need Only Seasoning to
Be in Front Rank-Intercy Exhibition
Match at Indian Spring Sunday.

mounds teeSide. who plays golf AS we'll
as many of the tournament players of
today. Chevy Chase has Beverly Mason.
Il. A. Lotus. F. K Hitz and several
more who arc good enough to take care
of themselves in any kind of golf COM
petition.
Future Appears Bright.
Out of the younger generation of
golfers about the Capital there may
come within a year or two a lad who
Will figure in national golf, just as Ro-
. land Mackenzie has done over the last
four years. Most of these youngsters
play as we'll as Roland played five years
ago, Just as he was starting his national
golf career. 1t is up to them whether
or not they will go further than the
local events and the comparative medi-
ocrity that will be theirs in a golf way
unless they step out to larger fields.
Strangely enough the neighboring
city of Baltimore seems to be doing
little in the way of developing young
Sters to take the places of the Cork
rams. SaSScerS and other established
stars about the Monumental City. For
years we have heard Washington re-
ferred to as "a good golf town." and
there can be no doubt that it is, when
the Stalemate into which the game has
fallen about Baltimore is viewed in
comparison with the activity about the
Capital For the younger players are
the backbone of the game. Their prog
reSs always is more interesting than
that of the men who have had their
day and are fading out of the picture
Washington is well taken care of as
regards the future generation of golfers
James A. Drain, son of Ralph A
Drain. paired with Arthur B. Thorn, the
Town and Country Club professional,
yesterday to win first place in the
amateur professional handicap event at
the Washington Golf and Country Club
This pair turned in a best ball card of
"a, and. aided by Drains handicap of
IL, had a net best ball of So. which
virtually Spread-eagled the field. Thorn
had a card of 10 unaSSisted by the
Washington youngster. But Drain aided
the Town and Country Club pro on
six holes, giving the pair best ball
of Ga
Ed Rice. son of DR.. Thomas j. Rice.
paired with Ralph Beach of the SUBJ
urban Club of Baltimore to finish sec
ond with net score of 66. Beach had
a card of 70. with three penalty strokes.
Rice had handicap of IA.
AuA1u place WENT 10 WATQ Is, NC
earthly and Walter w. Cunningham of
Burning Tree, with net card of II.
All the amateurs we're from the WASH
ington Golf and Country Club.
A large purse has been hung up for
the exhibition match to be played at
Indian Spring next Saturday which
Will find j. Monro Hunter and George
Diffenbaugh of Indian Spring paired
against Glenn Spencer of Green Spring
Valley and Carroll T. McMaster O!
Rolling Road.
The match will be played at Indian
Spring and will be open to the pub
lie without a gate fee.
The affair is a return engagement
for the match last month at Rolling
Road when Hunter and Diffenbaugl1
defeated Spencer and McMaster, 2
ana ].
The conflict in dates between the
Bannockburn Golf Club event and the
proposed tourney of the Rolling Road
Club has been removed Rolling Road
Club officials have decided to hold
its tourney on dates other than those
of September 10, 20. 81 and %, which
were chosen for the Bannockburn
tourney last Spring The decision as
TO dates for the Rolling Road tourney
has not yet been made, but assurance
has been given there will be no con-
fiict.
Junior Golfers of the Indian Spring
Club will compete in a 36-hole medal
play event August for the champion
ship Of the club. Prizes will be put
up by the fathers of the Junior players.