Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-27


inaugural affairs of the season
Bannockburn has scheduled TIT
"Springtime inaugural handicap" which
is an 18-hole handicap tourney II
which the contestants will be paires
after they have left the first tee. draw
ines being made from a nat The
total score of the partners, minus theh
combined handicaps, will govern the
prize awards. Winter rules will prevail
for the tourney, and all entrants must
start not later than 2 pm.
At Congressional, many of the clut
golfers were playing in the Spring
handicap match play tourney, with one
round to be run off each week,
Golfers of the Woodmont Club were
Tn compete in another one-day handi-
cap tourney similar to several sucn
events which have been held on past
Sundays. -,x
At indian Spring the club golfers
were to play In a medal pay naluas
yesterday and was to be concluded
today. o,,
Manor and Beaver Dam are to open
their seasons schedule of events with
tournaments next Sunday.
While the golfers of some Of the clubs
are competing in their own JOURNEYS
o,,t at the Washington Golf and
Country Club an attitude OF watcn1ul
waiting prevails as the members OF the
club get In their last practice ticks for
the annual club invitation tourney
which will start Tuesday. Slowly ano
carefully the course has been brought
along until today it Is In apple pie
condition, waiting for the host OF
PLAYERS who will tramp and struggle
over its rugged terrain all this week
Inasmuch as the course Is expected 20
be crowded tomorrow with tourney
entrants, who will have but one Gay
for practice over the course before the
oneninc of the big event, most of the
club members were to have their mai
practice rounds today. Most OF the
leading golfers of the city are entered
in the tourney.
If Harry G. Pitt, the Manor Club
ace. continues to knock the ball great
distances from the tee and keeps on
putting as he did in match we piayeo
with him at washington last week, ne
is going to be a rough and rugged Gus
toner again this year. Harry Is not
hitting the ball from the tee squarely
as vet, but even those half-topped shots
of his 90 rolling down the course past
the best of an ordinary golfer.
Winter rules will be suspended this
week at Washington, and all the golfers
In the tourney will be playing under
Summer rules once again for the frst
time since last November. The club
golf committee has posted notice that
on crowded days cutting in" at the
thirteenth tee will not be permitted.
Maurice j. Mccarthy, and Frank K.
Roesch were scheduled to play Henry ID.
Nicholson, champion OF the Wssnng-
ton Golf and Country Club, and Dave
Thomson, the club pro, in challenge
match billed to start at Washington at
100 this afternoon.
"Brick" Wood. the washington caddie
master. holds that Mccarthy Is the
outstanding entrant in the coming
tournament and will wade through his
field as Bob Jones usually goes through
the amateur championship 36-hole
matches. Mccarthy was beaten in the
tourney last year by Dick wilson, fell
low student at Georgetown.
Entries for the Woodnont Country
Club invitation tourney, to be played
May 6, Z, 8 and 9, are to close next
Sunday night at 6 pm. Entries also
may be sent to william q. 1lch,
chairman Of the committee, at 1916
Varnum street.
Decision Of the District Golf Asso-
citation to take over the running OF the
interscholastic golf championship, II
such a move is satisfactory to the school
authorities, must be considered step
in the right direction. AS the inter-
scholastic title now stands, 1t Is not
managed at all, or poorly managed at
best and means nothing more than
group of youngsters getting together
without any guiding head to play for
q title which lacks meaning. II the
, District association takes over the OPP
Grafton of the championship, it may re-
suit in trophy being put up Tor the
schoolboy golfers and real cham
pionship which will mean something
the interscholaStic event last week, win.
ming more impressively than he die
last year.
Mrs. Frank r. Keefer. president Of
the District Women's Golf Association
has written to the United States Coll
Association for ruling on an unfortu-
nate train of condolences in the Keelel
Memorial tourney last Monday al
washington. The scroll on which the
name Of the winner is engraved wa:
presented to the association last yeal
by Mrs. william S. Corby, former presi'
dent, and contains places for the name:
of the winner of both low gross arlc
low net. The winner of the low me-
prize Is considered the winner OF TIT
tourney. AS it happened last Monday
Mrs. Alma Won Steiner Of Beaver Dan
won both the low gross and low ne
IL 20 faI
since that was the chief prize In INT
event. When 1t came to the question
of whether her name should be in bott
places on the scroll, opinion was di
yided. After considerable discussion
Mrs. Keefer referred the matter
Herbert H. Ramsay, president OF TN
United States Golf Association, Tor
ruling.
The first spadeful of dirt was duI
last Thursday for the new 18-hol
course of the National Women's Coun
try Club, organized by Representative
group of Washington women, Whlci
has taken over the old Montgomer.
County Club. Fred Finlay. who lait
out the James River course OF tn'
Country Club Of Virginia, is the archi
tect.
Frank Hartig and r. Cliff McKimmie
Army, Navy and Marine Corps Countr:
Club pros, are to oppose Arthur
Thorn of Woodmont and Mel Snorey
East Potomac Park in an exhibition
match at the service club, scheduled
start this afternoon at 2:30 pm.
Harry Graham, manager al Roc
Creek, comes to bat with yarn OF ho'
four self-admitted buffers (names de
leted) played their qualifying round
Rock Greek the other day, and withou
fixing the score card, or forgetting
stroke or two, they all turned in card
of Sc for the nine holes.