Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29

For several years in the decade be-
ginning with 1910 the Middle Atlantic
Golf Association sponsored an inter-
club team match event between its
members. The team events we're quite
popular and each year there were from
SIX to a dozen clubs represented in the
team matches. But along about 1919
interest in the team matches began to
Wane and they were definitely aban-
doned by the aSsociation-as a perma-
nent policy-in 1922, when the returns
from the previous year showed that only
TWO clubs evidenced enough interest in
the team matches to send teams to
compete. Along about that time the
District Golf Association sponsored an
interclub team championship, which
went along merrily for three or four
wears and then also was abandoned.
From these two experiments it would
appear that the formal team match be-
tween clubs with a championship at
stake does not go over so big in this
neck OF the woods
Intercity Competition.
But an intercity team connetition.
with four or five cities represented ia
the event, would be quite another mat
ter. Here would enter the spirit of in.
terctty competition in its largest sense!
and II care was taken to choose the per.
sonnet of the teams the contests un.
oouDtedly would be close. Nothing
tends to create better spirit and good
Will among golfers than big intercity
events, but OF late years in the Midat-
lantic territory they have dwindled
until they are almost nil. 1t has be-
come almost automatic in the individual
championships held by the Middle At
lant1c Golf Association in recent years
tnat 30 per cent or more Of the entries
In the event are from the city in which
the tournament is held. In past years
this was not the case, for we recall Mid
atlantic Journeys in Norfolk and Rich
mono to which IS and 40 golfers from
washington Travelled, with the assur-
ance that they would not only have a
lot OF good golf, but that they also
would have good time.
why golfers do not travel NOWADAYS
70 attend the big tournaments. chiefly
the mid-Atlantic championship. il
something they alone can answer But
that they do not attend is a certainty.
Az the last Middle Atlantic Golf Asso.
citation Championship, held at the Ball
slmore country Club, not single golfer
rom virginia club entered his name.
PernapS the VolStead act has had some.
thing to do with it. Perhaps not. But
the TACT Is that golfers nowadays do not
travel around to the big tournaments
In this territory as they used to do.
Trophy Might Turn Trick.
1t is more than probable that inaugu-
ration OF series of competitions SINH
lar to the Lesley Cup matches would
turn this situation about, bring about
closer relationship between golfers Of
Baltimore, Washington, Norfolk and
Richmond and once again put these
cities on firm basis of golfine CANA
rader1e and friendships they used to
De. Possibly II some interested golfer
put up trophy to be played for by
teams representing the four cities, the
competition would become a reality.
or 1t might become a Middle Atlantic
Golf Association matter. 1t would
seem, however, that If an individual
who is well known and highly regarded
throughout the territory were to
sponsor such an affair and appoint a
committee of men from each city to
supervise II, the event would be well
received
In Washington, which has a 72-hoIe
medal play event to decide its city
championship, the first eight men in
the city titular event could form the
team, while in other cities a process of
qualification could be had, possibly
somewhat similar to the method which
might be used by Washington. The
proposition might well be worth think
ing over.
The annual meeting of the Manor
Club will be held at the club house on,
Monday, January IS, at pm. Annual
reports Of the officers of the club will
De received and announcement made of
the recent election of members of the
board OF governors