Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-17
PLANS FOR SEASON
CALL FOR BIC LIST
Manor Club May Add Event
to- Array Held Here in
1923 Campaign.

tive program adopted Dy the eN-
ecutive committee Of the District Goli
Association last week is ratified by the
annual meeting Of that organization al
the Racquet Club tomorrow night.
If the Manor Club holds tourna :
ment. the number of formal affairs will
be augmented, instead of reduced,
Manor has made gestures toward hold
ing a tournament for year. 1t now
Is awaiting the formal opening OF its
new nine-hole layout before arranging
the event, but 1t is almost certain the
club will ask for tourney date tomor-
row night.
The tentative schedule provides that
Washington-as has been its custom
for many years-will again open the
tournament season. with its invitation
event scheduled for May IA, inclusive.
The following week will follow the four
day event of the Town and Country
Club, with Chevy Chase coming along
the next week. Then will come the
Indian Spring tourney, which will fol-
low the lead Of Chevy Chase and end
its event on Friday instead OF Satur-
day.
A lapse of two weeks then will occur,
but it is expected host of Washington
golfers will participate in the Middle
Atlantic Golf Association championship
at the Baltimore Country Club the week
of June 2. Then there will be another
lapse of fortnight with the Congress
sional Country Club tourney on June
1929, inclusive. winding up the local
Spring schedule.
Following that event usually come the
Sherwood Forest and Maryland Country
Club invitation tournaments, which are
elways attended by a number OF WASH
ington golfers.
The District juniors will play for the
Albert r. Mackenzie championship
cup on September 5, while the high
spot of the local golf season will be
reached on September 26 and 81, with
the playing Of the District amateur
championship for the title now held
by Miller B. STEVENSON of Columbia.
The association, in its new constitu-
ton. will seek to definitely fix the
method for playing the District amateur
championship at ~ holes medal play.
Heretofore It has been the custom to
decide the manner of play at the an
nual meeting, but If 1t is fixed by the
constitution. as the executive committee
hopes will be done, the method of play
will probably not be changed for some
time.
Several influential golfers around
Washington feel that there already are
too many invitation tournaments and
favor cutting down the number by
some method. A plan propounded by
DR.. Bruce L. Taylor of Congressional a
year ago, in which he still believes. has
found favor with Homer S. Pope. chair
man of the Indian Spring golf commit
tee. Under this plan the clubs would
hold invitation events under a stag
gered" system, with club holding its
tourney only every two years. So far
the plan has not found favor among
the other clubs, but 1t may work out IN
future years.
The District Golf Association also
seeks to have the handicap limit on
entries for its championship raised from
IL to IA, believing that by this method
more entries will be received and more
golfers permitted to compete for the
premier local title.
Guy Mason. chairman of the Congress
gional golf committee, still Is in favor
Of holding tournament for buffers OF
all the clubs, with the minimum handi-
cap allowance placed at 16. His club
has bid for an invitation tourney late
in June, but he is personally in favor
of staging buffers tourney later in
the year, In addition to the other event.
Mason claims that only half dozen
men around the Capital are likely win
ners Of invitation tournaments, and that
a buffers tourney, with minimum
handicap limit set at 10. would have
much more interest than the usual no
handicap limit tournament.
Beaver Dam-the popular club at
Landover, Md-which is under the
management of S. G. Loefher, plans to
formally open on May /, although the
course now is open for play. Recent
rains have made Beaver Dam soggy, as
are many of the other local courses, but
it is In good shape nevertheless.
Yesterdays formal opening of the
Rock Greek Park municipal links found
a great tnrong of golfers-glad to be
released from the tedium of Winter golf
on the short course in West Potomac
Participating over the hilly layout near
Sixteenth street. Manager Al Farr re-
ported that play was far heavier than
during normal Summer day.
The layout in East Potomac Park,
whose formal opening was delayed be-
cause of wet weather. was to be opened
early today, and was expected to be
throrged with golfers.
Another hole in one has been record
ed on the 150-yard sixth hole at Indian
Spring, this time by one of the new
members of the club. The fortunate in
dividual is Hugh A. Kerwin Of 632 A
street southeast. Kerwin was playing
with former Gov E. P. Morrow of Ken
lucky and his son. ue hit his ball with
a mashie iron, saw 1t arch up toward
the pin and on direct line with the
hole, roll gently to the lip Of the cup
and drop in.
Friday afternoon the younger Nor
row, who learned the game in Ken
lucky under the tutelage Of Billy Burke,
was around the last nine at Indian
Spring in 81, which is only one over
par, and is the best he has ever had
on that nine.
Monro Hunter and George Diffen-
baugh. the Indian Spring pair, who
have never been beaten on their own
heath or in matches around Washing
ton. are looking forward to another
successful year as a two-ball combina-
ton. Although they have not had much
opportunity to practice, they have hit
a few balls during the Winter and be-
lieve they will be as successful as they
were last year, when they lost only one
m6ItlI-UO pan Va dlIAotNhAo OFNA tiAC
rough Clifton Park course in Baltimore,
with which they were unfamiliar.
Maurice J. Mccarthy Of the Wash
ington Golf and Country Club stu
dent at Georgetown, and another Wash
ington amateur, are to meet Hunter
and Diffenbaugh in a match early next
month, after Mccarthy and group of
Georgetown students return from ar
Easter week golf trip to Pinehurst.
w. r.. Little, ID. c. Gruver and Drs
T D. Webb and T. j. Rice, with their
wives. are leaving within few days foi
Pinehurst, TO continue the golf war
which is usually fought out by this
quartet on the Washington Golf and
Country Club front.
Columbia members who have not used
the course during the Winter will find
several changes in addition to the ex-