Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-14
GALLERY OF 5000
FOR JONES LIKELY
McWatt viii Be Given All
Receipts of Big Match
Here Tuesday.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM.

"A YOT for half decade have
M Washington golf bugs
1 had the opportunity of
witnessing on local course
such stellar exhibition match
starring such performers as will
be offered for the low price of two
bucks next Tuesday afternoon at
the Columbia Country Club.
Exhibition matches in overflowing
measure have been played around the
Capital in the last decade, and Wash
| ington has been host to the leading
| club swingers of the world within the
last ten years. but for the first time in
history the world emperor OF the game
| will be seen in action here, wearing his
regal robes, with his three major crowns
| metaphorically atop his Drowned brow;
| while with him will be the gent who
came so close at Minneapolis and in
England TO thwarting him in his task
of winning all four major titles in one
| year.
The blase Capital used to the busi-
ness of greeting champions in all lines
of sport and effort will turn out SOME
thing like 5000 golfers to watch Bobby
Jones in action next Tuesday, If the
hopes of the sponsors of the Bobby Nc
Watt exhibition match come true And
If those same 5000 golfacs do not get
their 50 worth in the form Of an ami
mated golf lesson, the Middle Atlantic
Professional Golfers Association, which
is sponsoring the match, will be disap-
pointed.
Putting 1t Briefly.
Here are the cold facts about the
finest golf match which has been offered
this city:
The Columbia Country Club,
near Chevy Chase Lake, Md.
The time-2 O'Clock Tuesday after
noon.
The contestants-Bobby Jones of At
lanta, American open, British open and
British amateur champion, and Roland
r. Mackenzie, Columbia amateur,
versus Macdonald Smith, runner-up to
Jones for both the American and British
open titles this year and at one time
holder of all the minor titles of the
| world, and Fred Mcleod, professional
at Columbia, and holder of the Amer
lean open championship in 1908.
The price, 81, with tickets on sale at
all golf clubs, public courses and sports
goods stores.
The occasion: "A benefit match for
| Bobby McWatt, former Columbia pro-
| feSSional golfer who was so seriously
| injured in an automobile accident two
| years ago that he never will walk again.
The pros wish to raise money enough
to buy him a miniature golf course to
| provide q living for himself and family.
Bobby Jones has set a thoroughly
worthwhile precedent by breaking his
usual custom of not playing exhibition
matches to play in the coming match
for the sole reason of the benefit phase
of the contest. Always the friend of
the professionals and consistently doing
the gracious thing, Bob Jones, who has
o1ysna Slx k1zfH
thing like 200 requests to play in ex-
hibition matches the country over, has
gladly consented to play in the match
on Tuesday in order that he may do his
bit for one of the professionals who has
been deprived by an accident of his
means of livelihood.
Can Washington golfers do less? We
do not think SO. Furthermore at most
matches OF this kind there are usually
lot of dead heads, gents who ride
through the gate on Annie OaklieS"
and contribute nothing but their pres
enee to the gallery. The newspaper
men usually are in this category because
it is their job to cover" golf affairs.
But even these calloused lads expect to
lay their two iron men on the line next
Tuesday to aid Bobby McWatt. Can
others do less?
Got Bobby $500.
Last year a match was held at In
dian Spring for the same purpose. Leo
Diegel and Horton Smith appeared
against Monro Hunter and Glenn Spen-
Ger for the same cause, and something
more than 81 300 was raised. But it
was hot day. and the match was not
as good match as has been arranged
for next Tuesday This year, If the eX-
pectations of the sponsors OF the match
are fulfilled and some 5000 persons
pay So to see the match, $4,000 will
be raised for McWatt, which should
keep the wolf from the door for many
months, give the little McWatt young
sters taste of the milk of human
kindness and relieve the anxiety of
mother down in Richmond. McWatt
himself will be here, brought to the
Capital by a group of Virginians who