Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
JOURNEYS TO FILL
L|NKSAT NORBECK
More Than Score of Events
LiSted-Preston offers
Schools Dawes Cup.


doors is nearly impossible, the
~ local organizations who foster
the sport are looking forward to
the days of tournament play. Already
tournament schedules are being worked
out, and the probability is that WASH
ington Golf and Country Club, as usual,
will open the Spring tournament sea-
son hereaboutS with its invitation
event the first four days of May.
But the always forward looking Manor
Club has gone step farther than any
Of the local organizations. Manor Club
announces today a complete golf
schedule for the 1929 season, during
which the new nine-hole layout, began
last year. will be formally opened for
play. The Manor Club schedule begins
on May S and runs almost through
September with hardly a break in the
list of club affairs planned for members
Of the Maryland organization.
Here Is the schedule:
May 5-Eighteen holes, medal play, prize
Tor nrst and second low net and low gross.
NAY NAY i2CMiTed Scotch r. fourSSSme
opening Of new course,
MAY sFaG to Snssy for en wOm
ems nag tournament, nine-hole medal play
June 2-First match for two-man best
ball trophy. won last year by Harold Brooks
and Robert G. Hird.
June Second round, two-man bess ball
june l6-Third round, two-man tourna-
june 23-Exhibition match
Final round td,,rg touTnament
Jul: S :. Il. Il and 2s@xii open.
AUGUST AUGUST iI2sind DOGGY ss d tournam S
August ls-Scotch foursome event;
sSsSs and lSr hsnd
cap medal play event for presidents tropny:
Tor men and women.
September, IS and l6-oua!ifyinG round for
s ses tO 2smPirs St match match play round
cipb championship. The club cnampionsnip
other GhS events EVENTS are 70 Sc scheduled during
october as the committee a-ranges them,
Along with letter to Superintendent
Of Schools Frank w. Ballou, offering for
an intarhigh school tournament play
q trophy donated by Vice Presidens
Dawes, James D. Preston. who offered
the trophy on behalf of the Vice Presi-
dent, presented the School Board with
an impressive group OF letters showing
the extent to which golf has found a
place in the athletic curriculum of
schools all over the country. The
School Board took prompt action on
the matter and recommended that the
cup be accepted for play by teams rep
resenting the five major high schools
in washington. Thereby placing golf in
a favorable position in high school ata-
letics. While a schedule of competition
has not yet been arranged. 1t is now
certain that next Spring teams from
the five high schools will play in reg
uIar schedule for the Dawes Cup.
Preston is the Washington repre-
sentative on the public links commit
tee of the United States Coli Associa-
ton and is the invaluable gent who has
oficiated as the liaSon between the
u. S. q. A. and the newspaper men at
the big national events for several years
past. He is action personifled and has
the knack Of getting things done with
out fuss or trouble. He has always
been interested in golf for youngsters
and has been joined in this by Gen.
Dawes. Now the indefatigable Jim has
another idea to carry the spirit of golf
farther into the brain of young America.
This scheme is to establish a junior
championship for the District of Column
bia with dead line at 16 years in
stead of 81 as the tournament for the
A. r. Mackenzie Cup is now. consti-
tuted.
Terms Of the competition for the
Dawes Cup provide that teams of four
boys from each of the five major high
schools will compete in single 18-hole
tournament each year the low aggre-
gate gross score to win the trophy
This scheme is good but it might have
been improved by holding e. round robin
tournament instead of combining play
TO one day. The names of the men,
nj f1n Hax
resent and the score will be engraved
on the cup.
Preston's letter to Supt. Ballou, Of
1ering the cup, follows:
Or. Frank w. Ballou,
superintendent of Schools,
Washington, D. c.
Dear Sir: The development in re-
cent years of the game of golf has
been one Of the most amazing things
in the world of athletics, and it has
been source of regret to many of
us interested in the sport that some
thing has not been done to give it
proper recognition in the Washing
ton high schools. That there is
plenty Of workable material was
demonstrated to me several years
ago when I conducted at the Rock
Creek golf course a tournament for
boys 16 years of age and under AS
I now recall it, had about 90 en-
tries, nearly one-half of which were
from boys who were either students
In or about to enter high school,
I believe am now in a position
to offer something that will prove
of interest to those students in the
i've major high schools who are golf
enthusiasts. Gen. Charles G. Dawes,
Vice President of the United States,
who is sympathetic with any effort
TO promote this clean sport for
schoolboys, has authorized me to
present a cup In his name to be
competed for annually by teams CT
four players from Business, Central,