Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-19
N OST of the professional golf &C
II tivity in the Midatlantic sector
scheduled for this Fall viii

scheduled Tor this ran VIII
center around Baltimore, where
two big open championships IN Sep
TENDER are to attract the best OF the
paid brigade about the Capital. The
professionals already are talking about
the two forthcoming championships to
be played about the middle OF the
month and are going ahead with the
selection of course for the Middle At
lantic Professional Golfers Association
title chase, with the job of raising the
money for this event already saddled on
the paid players of Baltimore.
Not for three years has Middle
Atlantic open championship been held,
since the day Fred Mcleod came to
the Eighteenth green at Indian Spring
to hole a four-foot putt to tie Leo Diegel
for the title, only to lose in the play-on,
although the first and second money
already had been split between them.
The pros have decided to revive the
event this year, and probably IL VIII De
played either at Hillendale or at Wood
holme, the latter a new course, only TWO
years of age, whose par has not yet
been matched by any golfer. The tour
neys-over the 72-hole route-will be
held September Is and Is and will be
followed Immediately by the Maryland
State open championship, to be played
at Rolling Road over the 36-hole route,
under the auspices of the Maryland
State Golf Association.
Gene Larkin, assistant to Bob Barnett
at Chevy Chase, who won the Maryland
State open last year by one OF those
miracle shots that sometimes happen
in the game of golf Is practicing dill
gently these days and looking forward
to the defense of his title. You will
remember that Gene put his tee shot
out of bounds at a one-Shot hole, In.
Cured the penalty of stroke and dis
lance and then holed his next tee shot
for a par Sin reality an eagle ace.
Gene should have a good chance to
repeat in the Maryland open, for he Is
playing golf of just as good brand as
that he showed to win the title last
year, and like his mentor, Barnett,
practices every day. Here in the Capt.
tai, however, the midatlantic match
play championship will be decided, II 1t
is to be held again this year. Bob
Barnett won the title last year IN q
fighting finish with j. Monro Hunter,
the Indian Spring professional, beating
the big pro from the -Four Corners Club
In tight finish in the final This
tournament usually is not held until
October.
Has Mrs. John N. Hodges, holder OF
the women's Middle Atlantic champion
ship, given up the competitive game?
Mrs Frank r. Keefer, president of the
District Women's Golf Association, says
Mrs. Hodges has lost interest in golf
and virtually has abandoned the game
in which she gave great promise OF re-
Of this section of the country.
Heroine in one of the greatest golf
matches ever played and winner OF the
midatlantic title by chipping ball into
the cup on the nineteenth hole, Mrs.
Hodges last year was one of the strong
est players in this part Of the country.
She won one or two of the minor
tournaments about the Capital and then
went on to win the nlidatlantic, beat
ing Mrs. Dorothy White Nicolson in the
final
This year she has played only In one
or two of the smaller Journeys, did not
compete in the District championship,
and. according to Mrs. Keefer, has so
lost interest that she probably will not
defend her Mid-Atlantic title She did
not play in the women's tourney yes
terday at Columbia. although it Is the
course on which she won the biggest
title for women In this section, and she
always has had liking for the layout.
The low gross prize In the tourney
went to Dorothy Hunter. long-hitttnS