Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
SECTIONAL TESTS
SET FOR June 10
Washington Men May Play at
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia
or Richmond Links.
NJ WALTER r. MeCALLuM.

~ NTRANTS from clubs about
washington in the national open
championship, most of whom
IL will be professionals, will again
have q choice OF three courses
on which to attempt to qualify on June
10 for the open championship to be
played more than fortnight later.
Once again Washington has been
neglected in the list of cities where
entrants for the open may qualify. but
local amateurs and professionals who
viii make bid to play in the open
may make their qualifying attempt at
Number Not Determined.
The number of qualifying places to be
open at each of the three cities win be
determined shortly after entries for the
open championship close on May II,
but probably the number will be APP
proximately the same as last year, when
two places we're open at Richmond, six
at Philadelphia and eight at Pittsburgh.
The splendid course of the Oakmont
Country Club at Pittsburgh will prob
ably again be the goal of most Of the
Washington professionals, who believe
that the larger number of places the
more chance they have of qualifying
ScCtlOUd1 yAiS tCob 0b 1eANA0
mond will be played over the course OF
the Hermitage Golf Club, while the
TorresdaIe- Frankford Club of Torres
dale, Pa, will be the other course at
which Washington entrants may seek
to qualify.
Nineteen courses scattered from Mas
SachuSetts to California are to be used
for the 36-hole Qualifying test on June
10. So far as is known no Washington
course was considered as one of those
on which the sectional medal rounds
will be played, even though Washing
ton is a central point for Maryland and
Virginia, and is easy Of access to most
Of the professionals in this section.
The open championship proper is to
be played at the Winged Foot Club CT
Mamaroneck, N. Y, and not more than
$50 players will be eligible for play. In
this number are the 80 contestants and
ties who. returned low scores in the
1928 open at Chicago. Tommy Armour
is one of those who do not have to
qualify, having finished in tie for
fifteenth place last year, while defend
ing the title he won at Oakmont in
1927. All members of the Ryder Cup
team and American pros, who compete
in the British open are exempt from
qualifying, along with foreign profess
sional players who visit this country
this year.
Prize List Revised.
The outstanding fact of the open
championship announcement, made to-
day by the United States Golf Associa-
ton, Is q strong upward revision Of the
money prizes for the open champion
ship, which brings them more nearly
on q par with the cash prizes offered
in other important open championship
events. Last year the prize list totaled
S2,242. This year the powers that pe
in golf have seen the light and have
put up q total Of I'VE grand" $1,000.
FIRST prize has been increased from
$500 to 81, 900; second money has been
jumped from $500 to $3.50, and the
other cash prizes all along the line
have been increased in proportionate
measure. dow INTO the twentieth man,
who gets $50. The championship an
nouncement places Horton Smith
twenty-ninth on the list of professionals
exempt from qualifying. rejecting his
position in the 1928 open championship
at Chicago.
Last year Fred Mcleod of Columbia,
Alex Armour of Congressional and j.
Monro Hunter of Indian Spring quail
fed for the open and played at Olyn-
pia Fields, although none OF the trio
was able to get very far in the cham
picnShip. Tommy Armour was auto
matically eligible by reason of having
won the title the previous year.