Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-24
v v WASHINGTON today is staging
Y national golf champion

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n a national golf champion
NV ship, In which 81 stalwart
golfers from the commits
stoned personnel Of the
Army are competing over the course
| of the Army. Navy and Marine Corps
Country Club for the right to enter the
match play rounds tomorrow in the
championship Is.
Every golfer of note in the Army and
| the Reserve Corps is on hand today
at the service club on the heights Of
Arlington, where Lieut.. A. j. Baldwin
of the I'd Corps Area. stationed at
| Governors Island, will defend the title
! he won last year in the championship
played at the Chevy Chase Club.
Thirty-six holes Of medal play was
scheduled for today, to be followed to-
morrow by two 18-hole match play
rounds, with the semi-finals on Thurs
day and the finals on Friday, both
scheduled for SO holes.
II any one is to topple the crown
from the head of Lieut.. Baldwin, Wash
ington golfers, both In and out of the
| Army, feel 1t may be Maj. Earl L.
Maiden, now stationed at the War Col
| lege. Maiden set a new amateur rec
| ord for the service club layout only q
| few days ago and has performed con-
sistently in local tournaments in other
years. Two years ago he was a semi
finalist in the Columbia tourney, and
in the same year he won the Army
| title. The contestants have been ar
irving at the club since the latter part
of last week, by airplane and by rail.
| One huge transport plane brought the
representatives of the Midwest to
| washington. Most of them are quar-
tered at the club.
Navy officers stationed at the Naval
| Academy at Annapolis and those on
duty in the Navy Department here
will meet in a match Sunday morn
| ing at the Army, Navy and Marine
Corps Club.
Mrs. H. B. Hird today was defending
her woman's golf championship OF the
Manor Club in the first round OF the
title event, in which she was drawn
against Mrs. A. c. Huligan.
Peter Jackson. greenkeeper at Con-
| gressional, suffered a broken shoulder
Yesterday in a fall from his horse
while taking fence.
| Twenty-one professionals from Wash
inRton, Baltimore and Lynchburg, Va.
| clubs will battle tomorrow at 36 noles
| medal play to see which two OF their
number will represent the Mid-Atlantic
! sector in the tournament for the pro-
| fessional match play championship In
| California in December. The event
tomorrow will be played over the course
OF the Rolling Road Golf Club OF Bal
| timore and the two leaders will go TO
| the Pacific Coast as the representatives
| of this section In the national pro-
| fessional tourney. Not all of the men
who will play tomorrow will go to Cali
| fornia II they are fortunate enough 10
qualify, SO it is entirely possible that
! one of the two leaders may not turn
| in his score. in case he finds he cannot
play, and permit the next man below
| him to take the place.
Here are the pairings for the S6-hole
round:
, 800 a.m-rred Mcleod. Columbia; J.
! o'Neill. Hillendale. and Alex Taylor Hasers-
s:o5-Ralph Beach, Suburban; Bob Bar
nett. Chevy Chase Charles p. setschief'
s:feHArthur B. Thorn. Town and Coun-
try; Roland Hancock. Lynchbure, Va; wal
slS-Jimmy Roche. Elkridse: Willie Sch
reiber. Frederick, Md; julius Platte Fores'
s:2o~A. L. Houshton. Harper: Warner
Mather. Woodholme; Gene Larkin, Chevy
connty oas
| renee Wisner. Suburban.
Sesss4 no ain Ross Ss sso4ss
East Potomac Park.
All the local golf world will be inter-
ested in the showing to be made by
Roland Hancock in his first essay al
real competition among the pros around
| washington and Baltimore. Hancock
recently won the Virginia State open al
Richmond, but only two of the loca
pros competed. Hancock finished third